Assignment
As a consultant to, or manager of, an IT unit within an organization, you must learn to become keenly aware of social, technical, and systemic issues and challenges facing you and that organization. This assignment asks you go to the Web, then identify, intellectually discuss, and broadly report on at least two of the most important (in your view) of the STS issues you discover in an online case or situation review. You may also choose to review your own organizational successes and failures. In particular, note how the social side of these issues have influenced the organization you are considering. Why has the consideration of them positively affected that organization? Conversely, what have been the negative effects on the organization because of not considering them? Make sure you relate the issues and concerns you discuss to one or more of the relevant STS principles. Additionally, if failure to properly consider an STS issue has caused the organization problems, how would you personally see the way out of them? Alternately, if STS considerations have aided the organization, what more might you recommend doing? Please provide some detail/examples as you write this paper.
Your paper's title might be: Considering the Social Side: Does it Really Make a Difference?