Information Systems, Software Engineering, and Systems Thinking

Information Systems, Software Engineering, and Systems Thinking: Challenges and Opportunities

AbSTRAcT This article traces past research on the application of the systems approach to information systems development within the disciplines of information systems and software engineering. Their origins historically are related to a number of areas, including general systems theory. While potential improvement of software development practices is linked by some leading experts to the applic...

Applying systems thinking and aligning it to systems engineering

1 . This is a paper on thinking about thinking. Systems engineering is an emerging discipline in the area of defining and solving problems in the manner of (Wymore, 1993). The emerging paradigm for problem solving is “systems thinking”. Both systems engineering and systems thinking have recognized the need to view a system from more than one perspective. This paper proposes a set of perspective...

Information-As-System in Information Systems: A Systems Thinking Perspective

This article investigates the complex nature of information in information systems (IS). Based on the systems thinking framework, this study argues that information in IS is a system in its own right. A conceptual model of information-as-system is built on the systems thinking perspective adopted from Gharajedaghi’s holistic thinking rooted from Ackoff systems approach, which is developed throu...

Adapting Systems Engineering for Software-Intensive Systems

The nature of systems engineering has changed in the last quarter century because of the increasing presence of software in systems. This paper describes the adaptations that systems engineers should make to their skills and approaches in order to engineer software-intensive systems better, and the places where systems engineers need to reinforce what continues to be useful about traditional sy...

Perspectives on Systems Thinking in Engineering