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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:06:30 +0000
Update - remember this Wednesday and then there's the 21st too don't
forget to tell your colleagues/students too. Slides from past
lectures
available on http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese.
31st Jan 2001 Prof David Targett Imperial College
A Select Committee Inquiry into E-commerce: a review of the
socio-technical issues examined
>From January to August 2000 the House of Lords Select Committee on
Europe
conducted an Inquiry into E-commerce. The objective was to investigate
the
development and implementation of European Commission and UK
government
policies towards e-commerce and e-business, including e-government.
The
process by which select committees conduct their inquiries is
singular. It
has definite weaknesses. For example it was not designed to cope with
the
mass of information now available on almost any topic nor to take
advantage of the benefits provided by electronic communications media.
However, one of its strengths is that it starts from a clean sheet and
can, as a result, be revealing in terms of the issues that arise and
are
investigated. Select Committees also have the power to insist that
senior
political figures appear before them for questioning. This talk will
describe and reflect on this process but the main focus will be to
review
the governmental, societal and organisational issues that were
examined.
These include policy-making, the transformation of government
processes,
the social implications of the "Information Society" and the digital
divide.
Feb 21st 2001 Prof Chris Clegg - Institute of Work
Psychology
Sheffield University
e-Business: boom or gloom?
No more bets
In this talk we offer some propositions and predictions about the
future
conduct of e-business. We argue that successful e-business activity
will
require the effective management of certain core 'building blocks'.
These
are concerned with new technology, supply chain relationships,
business
processes and empowered employees. We argue that our track record in
the
UK is not good in these areas, in large part because many
organisations
lack a systemic understanding of these issues and the relationships
between them. We predict that such systemic understanding will get
harder
for organisations (as systems get more complex and tightly coupled)
and
that the majority of e-business ventures, in the short to medium term,
will fail to meet their objectives.
Mar 14th 2001 Richard Holti Tavistock Institute
Supply Chain Inter-relationships
April 4th 2001 Chris Atkinson Brunel University
(Soft interventions for integrated development - title to be
confirmed)
To come in 2001:
Tony Cornford (Implementation issues - title to be confirmed)
Venue: Westminster Business School, Marylebone Road (opp. Baker Street
tube)
Lecture Theatre 2 - Luxborough Block
Time: 6pm - 7.30pm (approx)
Cost: Free. All welcome!
Further details email Elayne Coakes - [log in to unmask]
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