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From Systems and Tools to Networks and Infrastructures-from Design to Cultivation: Towards a Design Theory of Information Infrastructures

From Systems and Tools to Networks and Infrastructures-from Design to Cultivation: Towards a Design Theory of Information Infrastructures

Ole Hanseth
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 35
ISBN13: 9781615206926|ISBN10: 1615206922|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616923143|EISBN13: 9781615206933
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-692-6.ch011
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Hanseth, Ole. "From Systems and Tools to Networks and Infrastructures-from Design to Cultivation: Towards a Design Theory of Information Infrastructures." Industrial Informatics Design, Use and Innovation: Perspectives and Services, edited by Jonny Holmström, et al., IGI Global, 2010, pp. 122-156. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-692-6.ch011

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Hanseth, O. (2010). From Systems and Tools to Networks and Infrastructures-from Design to Cultivation: Towards a Design Theory of Information Infrastructures. In J. Holmström, M. Wiberg, & A. Lund (Eds.), Industrial Informatics Design, Use and Innovation: Perspectives and Services (pp. 122-156). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-692-6.ch011

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Hanseth, Ole. "From Systems and Tools to Networks and Infrastructures-from Design to Cultivation: Towards a Design Theory of Information Infrastructures." In Industrial Informatics Design, Use and Innovation: Perspectives and Services, edited by Jonny Holmström, Mikael Wiberg, and Andreas Lund, 122-156. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-692-6.ch011

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Abstract

The author argues in this chapter that the kind of IT solutions we are developing today and in the years to come, which are integrating numbers of systems across organizational and geographical borders, in many respects are significantly different from and more complex than information systems of yesterday. To succeed with the establishment of such solutions new understandings and development approaches are needed. Such new understandings, and approaches should be based on a perspective seeing such solutions as information infrastructures–not information systems. Infrastructures evolve over long periods of time. New ones are designed as extensions and improvements of existing ones–not from scratch. Therefore the new elements have to fit into the old regime. In this process the existing infrastructure, the installed base, influences heavily how the new elements can be designed. As the installed base grows its development and further growth become self-reinforcing. Successful development of infrastructures requires, first, the creation of such a self-reinforcing process, second, managing its direction. Strategies for creating and managing such processes are here called cultivation. Gateways are important tools used in such cultivation processes.

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