Start Date
10-12-2017 12:00 AM
Description
This teaching case explores the challenges of changing a work system by implementing an information system (IS). The case describes the approach implemented by “The Bank”, a financial service provider, when it implemented a new financial and banking IS “SysOne”, and thus fundamentally changed its work systems. The case is a real business scenario, which bases on case study research conducted by our research team and it adapts recent theoretical advances in the IS implementation literature. Using this teaching case should encourage students to discuss IS implementations from a general “system thinking” rather than a “tool thinking” perspective. An IS implementation is not just a new tool, it is a change of employees’ work systems. This teaching case should guide students to extend the efforts implemented to guide employees when implementing an IS beyond the technology to focus on the major IT-induced work system changes and thereby enable successful technochange.
Recommended Citation
Laumer, Sven; Maier, Christian; and Weitzel, Tim, "Analyzing and managing IT-induced work system changes" (2017). ICIS 2017 Proceedings. 7.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/IS-Curriculum/Presentations/7
Analyzing and managing IT-induced work system changes
This teaching case explores the challenges of changing a work system by implementing an information system (IS). The case describes the approach implemented by “The Bank”, a financial service provider, when it implemented a new financial and banking IS “SysOne”, and thus fundamentally changed its work systems. The case is a real business scenario, which bases on case study research conducted by our research team and it adapts recent theoretical advances in the IS implementation literature. Using this teaching case should encourage students to discuss IS implementations from a general “system thinking” rather than a “tool thinking” perspective. An IS implementation is not just a new tool, it is a change of employees’ work systems. This teaching case should guide students to extend the efforts implemented to guide employees when implementing an IS beyond the technology to focus on the major IT-induced work system changes and thereby enable successful technochange.