The Future of the Information Systems Discipline: A Response to Walsham

Authors

Salvatore T. March, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, USA
Fred Niederman, John Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, USA

Document Type

Other

Abstract

We must look ahead at today's radical changes in technology, not just as forecasters but as actors charged with designing and bringing about a sustainable and acceptable world. New knowledge gives us power for change: for good or ill, for knowledge is neutral. The problems we face go well beyond technology: problems of living in harmony with nature, and most important, living in harmony with each other. Information technology, so closely tied to the properties of the human mind, can give us, if we ask the right questions, the special insights we need to advance these goals. Herbert A. Simon (2000)

DOI

10.1057/jit.2012.10

Recommended Citation

March, Salvatore T. and Niederman, Fred (2012) "The Future of the Information Systems Discipline: A Response to Walsham," Journal of Information Technology: Vol. 27: Iss. 2, Article 3.
DOI: 10.1057/jit.2012.10
Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/jit/vol27/iss2/3