Socio Technical Systems: Presentation
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Review the experience of one organization's IT transition difficulties, described in the following article:
Charette, R. (2010, June 30). "Outstanding success" or nightmare payroll system:
Lawsuit will decide. IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved from
http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/outstandingsuccessornightmarepayrollsystemlawsuitmaydecide
Prepare a brief problem focused assessment of this situation applying your sociotechnical knowledge to determine
how the situation could have been better resolved. Specifically, prepare a short PowerPoint presentation describing the situation and the lessons learned from it.
Assume that your target audience is the management of another company hoping to avoid the difficulties described in the article. Your presentation will be titled, "SocioTechnical Issues and IT Project Success or Failure."
1. Define the project background and relevance.
2. Describe the project's technical concerns and ramifications.
3. Describe the concern for—or ignorance of—sociotechnical and other organizational dimensions of the project.
4. State the outcomes.
5. Identify what could have been done differently to achieve project success.
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Solution Summary
The response provides you a structured explanation of the article "Outstanding Success" or Nightmare Payroll System: Lawsuit May Decide and the lessons learned from it. It also gives you the relevant references.
Education
- BSc , University of Calcutta
- MBA, Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management
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