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Social Information Systems: Agility Without Chaos

Authors : Marc Quast, Mark J. Handel, Jean-Marie Favre, Jacky Estublier

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Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

The state of the practice in large corporations shows that huge numbers of unofficial “shadow” applications are introduced by various actors to work around the limitations of the official information system. After a brief analysis of the present situation, this paper proposes an alternative enterprise architecture paradigm, reusing examples from a recent industry experience report to demonstrate how shadow application proliferation could be avoided without sacrificing business agility. We present our prototype implementation and its initial results, and discuss the possibility of applying consumer-space social mechanisms to both reduce the present chaos and leverage the collective intelligence and energy of the corporation towards cooperative, evolutionary development and maximum business agility.

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Footnotes
1
The authors have a cumulated experience of over thirty years in the development and operation of business applications in industrial environments.
 
2
In the report, Luxury refers to both a business process and the supporting official application(s). We only refer to the latter here.
 
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Metadata
Title
Social Information Systems: Agility Without Chaos
Authors
Marc Quast
Mark J. Handel
Jean-Marie Favre
Jacky Estublier
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
Enterprise Information Systems

Print ISBN: 978-3-642-40653-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-40654-6

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40654-6_4

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