Information and Knowledge Management in Complex Systems: 16th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations (original) (raw)

A semiotic theory of information and information systems

1993

The motivation behind the work reported here has been practical since its inception and today, the results are actually proving successful in practice. The story began in an experience that I must surely share with many of my colleagues. I worked in public administration and then in industry where I experienced computers being used with great technical skill but with only poor results for the client organisation. There seemed to be one overwhelming reason for this technical efficiency combined with organisational ineffectiveness: we knew all about information technology but precious little about the information it carried. We could produce bottles but we did not understand the wine. Information is the wine. Information is a vague and elusive concept, whereas the technological concepts are relatively easy to grasp. Semiotics solves this problem by using the concept of a sign as a starting point for a rigorous treatment for some rather woolly notions surrounding the concept of informa...

E_Semiotics. Semiotics, Knowledge Management and New Information Technologies.

In this communication I present a specific conceptual approach in the conception, development and management of new (interactive) information and knowledge products and services. I call this approach "e_semiotics" (like "electronic" semiotics, i.e. semiotics for the building, understanding and managing of digital information and knowledge products and services).

Semiotic Methods for Enterprise Design and IT Applications

2000

Investment in information technology (or IT) does not necessarily bring improvement in business performance. One important cause of this is the divorce between the design of the IT systems and business organisations. An approach of organisational semiotics, based on the understanding of organisations as systems of social norms emphasises the central role of the people, their responsibility and the organisation

Project Management and Risk Management in Complex Projects: Studies in Organizational Semiotics

2007

Management of Projects in their Early Phase.- Using Problem Articulation Method to Assist Planning and Management of Complex Project.- Omissions in Managing Knowledge in Innovation Processes or How to Handle Knowledge, Humans and Tasks: A Semio-Cognitive Approach.- Viewpoint-Centred Methodology to Design Project/Subcontract Cooperation Policies.- Risk Management.- A Contribution to a Semiotic Approach of Risk Management.- Organizational Semiotics and Multi-Agent Paradigm.- Norm-Based Contract Net Protocol for Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems.- Interaction of Simulated Actors with the Environment.- Transformation of Information.- Semiotic Transformation from Business Domain to IT Domain in Information Systems Development.- Comparative Analysis of Ontology Charts and other Modelling Techniques.- The Separation of Data and Information in Database Systems under an Organisational Semiotics Framework.- Towards a Social-Based Process for Information System Development: A Case Study.- Ap...