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Social Information Systems: Agility Without Chaos

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The state of the practice in large corporations shows that huge numbers of unofficial “shadow” applications are introduced by various actors to work around the limitations of the official information system. After a brief analysis of the present situation, this paper proposes an alternative enterprise architecture paradigm, reusing examples from a recent industry experience report to demonstrate how shadow application proliferation could be avoided without sacrificing business agility. We present our prototype implementation and its initial results, and discuss the possibility of applying consumer-space social mechanisms to both reduce the present chaos and leverage the collective intelligence and energy of the corporation towards cooperative, evolutionary development and maximum business agility.

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Notes

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    The authors have a cumulated experience of over thirty years in the development and operation of business applications in industrial environments.

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    In the report, Luxury refers to both a business process and the supporting official application(s). We only refer to the latter here.

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This work has been funded by Nano-2012 grant MoDeSI. The authors would like to thank the participating interviewees for their time and helpful comments.

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  1. University of Grenoble, Grenoble, France

    Marc Quast, Jean-Marie Favre & Jacky Estublier

  2. The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA, USA

    Mark J. Handel

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Quast, M., Handel, M.J., Favre, JM., Estublier, J. (2013). Social Information Systems: Agility Without Chaos. In: Cordeiro, J., Maciaszek, L.A., Filipe, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 141. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40654-6_4

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