Technological Support of an Inquiring Organization: Moving From Conceptualization Toward Implementation
Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: Organizations are operating in increasingly complex environments.Simply functioning effectively in these environments requires increasing amounts of information; creating, storing, and retrieving this information is of paramount importance.To effectively manage these tasks, organizations must adopt flexible technology capable of withstanding dynamic environments and which enable the organization to maintain and evolve a reliable data store.A framework for such an organization is based on the philosophies underlying inquiring systems (Churchman, 1971) and is known as an inquiring organization (Courtney, 1998).These organizations require specific components to enable them to sustain themselves in a dynamic environment.Some of the necessary components are defined in this paper, and software technology capable of performing the functions of these components is discussed.Available and feasible agent techniques are listed as evidence of the feasibility of this approach.
Authors: Yi Guo, Dianne J. Hall
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2144600504