The Information Systems and Technology Innovation Process

The emergence of success in the adoption of
innovation is closely linked to market profits. In
the Information Age, Information Systems and
Technology are intertwined with people in specific
ways in order to provide added value for the
customer. With an ever changing landscape and a fast
growing IS/IT offer, the decision do adopt or not a
particular innovation is one of strategic importance
for the survivability of the firm. In this book two
main groups are stylised as having the power to
formulate those decisions: the knowledge workers,
IS/IT connoisseurs within the enterprise and the
decision makers, symbol of the top management. Then,
an abstract Agent Based Model is used to study
Information Systems and Information Technology
innovation on an organizational realm, using a socio-
cognitive approach. Conclusion is drawn that the
power of the knowledge workers in the decision to
adopt an IS/IT innovation within an organization
varies with the matching level of ideas between them
and the top management, while being dependant of the
transactions depreciation rate, leading to a strong
fluctuation of power when the environment is
unstable.

Autorentext

António Eugénio, MSc, is a Portuguese Air Force officer who teaches Strategy at the Portuguese War College. He has also pursued an academic career that has brought him to study Management of Information Systems using the state of the art methodological tools, such as the Agent-based modelling.

Klappentext

The emergence of success in the adoption of innovation is closely linked to market profits. In the Information Age, Information Systems and Technology are intertwined with people in specific ways in order to provide added value for the customer. With an ever changing landscape and a fast growing IS/IT offer, the decision do adopt or not a particular innovation is one of strategic importance for the survivability of the firm. In this book two main groups are stylised as having the power to formulate those decisions: the knowledge workers, IS/IT connoisseurs within the enterprise and the decision makers, symbol of the top management. Then, an abstract Agent Based Model is used to study Information Systems and Information Technology innovation on an organizational realm, using a socio-cognitive approach. Conclusion is drawn that the power of the knowledge workers in the decision to adopt an IS/IT innovation within an organization varies with the matching level of ideas between them and the top management, while being dependant of the transactions' depreciation rate, leading to a strong fluctuation of power when the environment is unstable.