For new readers, welcome to the Summary-Makers’ Insight! I hope you have enjoyed and/or found useful some of our previous posts. Seeing as we have had quite a bit to say already, I figured it was about time for a summary-making of our summary-making (a little recursive summarizing, if you will). But before I do that, I’ll give you a quick dramatic summary of what summary-making is all about:
I’m sure all of us are aware of many of the players in this complex drama we call Infomation Systems Management. There are the Boogiemen - villains and naysayers who often nitpick the technical details and question the value of ISM, but who still bring very valid light to real problems. There are the Question Keepers, who make sure we ask the right questions (though seem to rarely give us the answers we crave). There are the Champions, the evangelists of the new technologies and systems ISM brings us, who can promise the world, and every so often deliver it. We have The Keepers of the Treasure, who keep what we’ve got running, but can get a bit snippy if there’s too much change. And we can’t forget the Script Writers, who rarely get their hands dirty from their thrones, but at least keep everyone going the same direction. All of these actors (and more) play their ongoing roles, and fight thier battles.
We, the Summary-Makers, try to step out of the fray and see the whole picture. We understand the value and strength of each perspective, and we take it upon ourselves to represent a broad and balanced view by using our most cherished tool: the summary.
So, without further ado, here are some summaries:
- Web services (such as Google Apps) are commoditizing basic computing for business, which will add value to the business world as a whole by decreasing the costs of ISM.
- The proliferation of integrated mobile devices will serve to increase the reliability of the web services that complement them, which business will be able to harness. Despite the locked-down nature of these devices, the innovation and creativity of the online world will not be comprimised.
- The value of Information Systems Management is in the connections between those three concepts.
We as summary makers summarise the need to forsee, invest and understand ISM and look through the cultural perspective how its connecting people and how ISM technologies have created convinience for living beings and how as normal people we could evaluate it.
