Hunting for the Treasure at the End of the Rainbow: Standardizing Corporate IT Infrastructure

Hanseth, Ole; Braa, Kristin

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“…A suitable typology for differentiating between different IS is Weill & Broadbent's (1998) classification based on organisational function to support infrastructural, transactional, informational and strategic. A contemporary IT base is composed of a number of different systems and technologies that are tightly intertwined into an information infrastructure (Hanseth & Braa, 2001) that is difficult to radically transform (Hanseth, 2000;Yoo et al, 2007).…”

Section: Is Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The DySIIM model for managing IS integration in mergers and acquisitions

Henningsson

Carlsson

2011

Information Systems Journal

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Corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are prominent means for corporate strategy. In many M&As information systems (IS), integration is critical for achieving the intended goals. By integrating previous research on M&A and IS integration, we develop a six-dimensional theoretical framework for IS integration in corporate M&As. The framework is used to describe and explain IS integration management in four M&As. Based on the four cases, the theoretical framework and the existing literature, an initial model (Dynamic System of IS Integration in M&A, DySIIM) describing and explaining how IS integration relates to the M&A process is developed. Through the combination of the DySIIM's dimensions, the dynamics of different parts of the M&A process are captured. The model can be used in further research to build cumulative knowledge about how to manage IS integration in M&A. The model can also be used by companies in their M&A since through the combination of dimensions, it shows the IS integration issues, decisions and actions that a company has to address in the process.

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Section: Is Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The DySIIM model for managing IS integration in mergers and acquisitions

Henningsson

Carlsson

2011

Information Systems Journal

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“…If better indices can mitigate moral hazard issues in individual or organization risk contracts, their establishment, enabled by GRID technologies, also requires the setting of standards and complex legal devices as an essential first step. Leaving aside the legal devices, standardization comes with a price of higher complexity and hidden new forms of fragmentation (Hanseth and Braa, 2001). Hence, every action, device or rule that sets out to reduce or mitigate risks may create side-effects of uncontrollable origin and manifestation, which can disrupt the newly-established control apparatus.…”

Section: The Risk Of Infrastructure Deploymentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Imbrication of Representations: Risk and Digital Technologies*

Ciborra¹

2006

J Management Studies

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Though emerging from different venues and backgrounds, risk management and digital applications are both based on sophisticated techniques of representation. This paper tracks the multiple overlappings and convergence between these two streams of representations. Initially digital technologies play a background role, as a tool to execute the algorithms of risk calculus. Then, they are useful in managing surveys and data analysis for those areas where risk management needs to store data on, for example, accidents. With the extension of markets for trading risk, computers and networks (or Information and Communication Technologies, ICT) become the tools of choice to allow the efficient functioning of industries like insurance. In other industries, like banking, where 'the business' is a vast archipelago of applications running on systems and networks, it is apparent that these integrated systems are inherently exposed to risk. Hence, these humble tools become both the infrastructure of the risk industry, and also the source of new, often incalculable risks; they move from a clear-cut subordinate relationship (as tool) to that of "imbrication". Risk representations become more calculable and formalized, but this is obtained at the price of an incalculability of the risks of the infrastructure itself. The analysis of the multiple patterns of imbrication of representations between risk and digital technologies is applied to a range of empirical domains: from software engineering and information systems (the subservient infrastructure); to operational risk in banking; and finally to the future scenario of the democratization of finance, whereby Global Risk Information Databases (GRIDs), become gigantic machines to represent, compute, and trade all sorts of individual and social risks.-super-[1] Overall, the paper seeks to characterize the multiple links between risk and digital technologies in organizations and draws in part on the phenomenology of representation and Heidegger's studies of Care and Concern and his later work on the essence of modern technology. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2006.

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“…On a conceptual level, this is similar to what Hanseth and Braa [13] have recognized in relation to largescale IT infrastructures. Metaphorically, they describe the process of standardizing and integrating a corporate-wide infrastructure as "hunting for the treasure at the end of the rainbow".…”

Section: Inherent Side-effects Producing New Forms Of Fragmentationmentioning

confidence: 64%

Conceptualizing common information spaces across heterogeneous contexts

Rolland

Hepsø

Monteiro

2006

Proceedings of the 2006 20th Anniversary Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

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The design and conceptualization of Common Information Spaces (CIS) has long been recognized as an important research topic within CSCW. Informed by recent developments in ActorNetwork Theory (ANT), this paper contributes to the conceptualization of CIS across heterogeneous contexts. In particular, the paper develops a dynamic perspective on CIS emphasizing how CIS is malleable, open and achieved in practice. Furthermore, we argue that large-scale CIS efforts inherently tend to re-produce fragmentation as an unintended consequence of integrating heterogeneous sources of information. Empirically, the research is grounded in extensive field work in a major international oil and gas company.

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Hunting for the Treasure at the End of the Rainbow: Standardizing Corporate IT Infrastructure

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The DySIIM model for managing IS integration in mergers and acquisitions

The DySIIM model for managing IS integration in mergers and acquisitions

Imbrication of Representations: Risk and Digital Technologies*

Conceptualizing common information spaces across heterogeneous contexts

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