Name
Title | ||
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Technologist engagement with risk management practices during systems development? Approaches, effectiveness and challenges |
Abstract | ||
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The inability to engage with systems risk during the development of integrated socio-technical systems presents a real threat to global and local socio-economic stability. Current theories on system risk engagement are driven by a functionalist orthodoxy. Accordingly, risk management is either non-existent, done in parallel to other development activity, or used by organisations as an instrument of control. Systems risk management needs to be addressed at the source of the problem: the systems engineering process. This paper addresses the predominant failure to appropriately engage with systems risk during development. It provides, with respect to the theoretical dimensions, a diversity of risk perspectives, complexity and socio-technical systems theory. A broad literature review on different risk concepts, risk management perspectives and organisational paradigms (functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist and radical structuralist) is also presented. In order to overcome a lack of a holistic and reflective risk management approach to systems development, this paper sketches an integrated soft systems methodology approach which can be used for engaging with systems risk during systems development. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2016 | 10.1007/s00146-015-0597-4 | AI Soc. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Systems risk, Systems development, Information systems paradigms | Systems theory,Soft systems methodology,Computer science,Functionalism (philosophy of mind),System of systems,Knowledge management,Risk management,Humanism,System development,Management science | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
31 | 3 | 1435-5655 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 43 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| john organ | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Larry Stapleton | 2 | 24 | 6.81 |