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Challenges and Reflections on Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom Societies and Sociotechnical Systems

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Enterprise Systems. Strategic, Organizational, and Technological Dimensions (Pre-ICIS 2011, Pre-ICIS 2012, Pre-ICIS 2010)

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This paper has been invited to be published by the Springer LNBIP series/2014 and so, it is an improved version from those version accepted for presentation at the Fifth Pre-ICIS workshop on ES Research, St Louis/USA 2010 [1]. The paper considers some challenges and reflections concerned with Information and Knowledge/Wise Societies and Sociotechnical Systems. After a brief and innovative panorama on the information and knowledge/wise societies and sociotechnical system we present the core of this work: challenges and reflections related with our society and systems. For some of these challenges and reflections has been proposed answers such as: treatment of the organization as a living being → synergism & collaborative ecosystem research efforts; a unfair shared leadership, information partnership and a collaborative relationship in the age of knowledge and, a new way of development, which comprises the social, economical, cultural and environmental spheres leading us to a new model of perception and knowledge of the world & present financial crisis; the future… Those questioning are still open to create new insights and interests.

Work partially supported by the State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).

A.S. Targowski—President Emeritus of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (2007–2013).

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Balloni, A.J., Targowski, A.S. (2015). Challenges and Reflections on Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom Societies and Sociotechnical Systems. In: Sedera, D., Gronau, N., Sumner, M. (eds) Enterprise Systems. Strategic, Organizational, and Technological Dimensions. Pre-ICIS Pre-ICIS Pre-ICIS 2011 2012 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 198. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17587-4_14

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