GENERAL SYSTEMS/SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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?

SLP Assignment Expectations

These SLP papers require that you integrate, discuss, contiguously cite, and later fully reference at least three academically sound sources. Please use enough concurrent discussion so that the purpose of each citation is apparent to the reader. Please note that this paper is incomplete without at least three academically sound references. Relevant magazine articles such as CIO are OK. You may also use Wikipedia and military/corporate references, but they do not count as one of the required three references.

You will be assessed on the appropriateness and completeness of the detail you provide regarding your topic, your use of citations and references as noted above, and your intellectual insight into topically important issues.

You are expected to use correct grammar, spelling, and English vocabulary. Check your paper for missing or inappropriately used words. If in doubt, check the dictionary and not ''spell check.'' Please consider that this paper, and all others, will be reviewed by the CIO and/or your commanding officer. It is strongly suggested that you ask a trusted colleague to review and edit each of your papers.

Post your paper once it is completed.

Finally, you are not to use any government/military classified or corporate-sensitive information in the development of any course papers or in any Discussion participation.

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