Sample Essay
Today, information systems are becoming more and more complex with the passage of time, to incorporate all of the organization’s functions, scaling up to the complete enterprise. While these systems are built on the philosophy to incorporate all the engineering principles, that is to ensure that a “technically high quality” product is at hand, built as efficiently as possible, most of these projects initiated for information systems development fail due to reasons other than technical, more towards human failure, organizational failure (Ottens, 2005), legal failure. Researchers hence are more inclined towards understanding these systems as socio-technical systems that involve both the technical facets such as engineering as well as social facets that are essential for its effective functioning. Systems, however complex they may be, require collaboration, organizational commitment, and legal commitment etcetera.
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