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Information system (IS) failure is a pervasive phenomenon. Like the paper’s introduction, common sense and statistics show information system failure is common and also important, because huge amounts of human effort and economic resources are spent without much gain. The issue of failure is also related to FRISCO report and the theme of the conference in two ways. First our concepts and ideas about information system and the nature of information system development can affect either positively or negatively our intellectual and technical capabilities to influence the likelihood of IS failure. Second, because information system definition forms one key concept and focus of the FRISCO report it may help achieve a common and more precise understanding of “what it is” that is failing.
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Lyytinen, K. (2000). Comments on “Failure, Identity Loss and Living Information Systems” by P. Kanellis, M. Lycett, and R.J. Paul. In: Falkenberg, E.D., Lyytinen, K., Verrijn-Stuart, A.A. (eds) Information System Concepts: An Integrated Discipline Emerging. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 36. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35500-9_17
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