Organizational Semiotics: Evolving a Science of Information Systems covers such issues as:
-Fundamental concepts such as ' information' , ' data' , ' message' , ' communication' , ' knowledge' , ' organization' , ' system' and so on;
-Properties of signs vital to organizational functioning, such as their meanings, the intentions they express and the valuable social consequences they produce;
-' Architecture' of organizations when they are viewed as information systems, based on their semiotics features;
-Understanding language in organizational contexts, for example, the limitations on the language used to conduct business affairs;
-The empirical study of communications for requirements elicitation;
-Applying semiotic categories (e. g. physical, empiric, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, social) to various problems;
-Organizational knowledge representation;
-Business process re-engineering methods and the design of e-commerce systems.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Exploring the Explanatory Power of Actability. - Information and Knowledge Economies. - Data, Information, and Knowledge. - Organisations as Practice Systems. - Knowledge or Information. - Translation, Betrayal and Ambiguity in IS Development. - Integrating Information Systems. - User-System Interface Design. - Pervasive Computing and Space. - Systemic Functional Hypertexts (SFHT). - The Value of Information in the E-age . - Semiosis, Information and Knowledge. - Dividing Businesses into Processes. - A Semiotic Approach to Quality in Requirements Specifications. - The Institutional Context of Information. - Seven Rules for Applying Language/Action Perspective and Organizational Semiotics Successfully. - Towards a Semiotic Communications Quality Model. - Semiotics and Intelligent Control. - Striking the Right Tone. - Looking Inside. - Levels of Abstraction in Maritime Maneuvering Operations. - Keywords Index.
