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Auflistung nach Schlagwort "Epistemology"

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  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Entwicklung von Reifegradmodellen für das IT-Management
    (Wirtschaftsinformatik: Vol. 51, No. 3, 2009) Becker, Jörg; Knackstedt, Ralf; Pöppelbuß, Jens
    Reifegradmodelle stellen für das IT-Management ein wichtiges Instrument dar, weil sie die Positionierung der eigenen Organisation ermöglichen und Entwicklungsperspektiven aufzeigen. In den letzten Jahren wurden über hundert Reifegradmodelle zur Unterstützung des IT-Managements entwickelt. Die Bandbreite ihrer Anwendungsbereiche reichen von einer Gesamtbeurteilung des IT-Managements bis hin zur Analyse einzelner Teilbereiche, wie z. B. das Business Process Management und der Einsatz von Business-Intelligence-Systemen in Unternehmen. Mit der großen Zahl der in den letzten Jahren veröffentlichten Reifegradmodelle geht die Gefahr einer zunehmenden Beliebigkeit in ihrer Entwicklung einher. Diese zeigt sich insbesondere in der verhältnismäßig lückenhaften Dokumentation. Der vorliegende Beitrag trägt dazu bei, dieser Tendenz entgegenzuwirken, indem auf der Basis wissenschaftstheoretischer Richtlinien Anforderungen an die Entwicklung von Reifegradmodellen abgeleitet werden. Mittels dieser Anforderungen werden die wenigen gut dokumentierten Vorgehensweisen miteinander verglichen. Die auf diese Weise erlangten Erkenntnisse werden zu einem allgemein anwendbaren Vorgehensmodell generalisiert und konsolidiert. Anhand der Entwicklung des IT Performance Measurement Maturity Model (ITPM3) wird die Anwendung des Vorgehensmodells gezeigt. Die Ergebnisse des Beitrags bieten eine Anleitung für eine methodisch fundierte Entwicklung und Evaluation von Reifegradmodellen. Insbesondere wenn Reifegradmodelle nicht nur den Status eines Marketinginstruments von Beratungsunternehmen erlangen sollen, ist ein derart fundiertes Vorgehen unerlässlich.AbstractMaturity models are valuable instruments for IT managers because they allow the assessment of the current situation of a company as well as the identification of reasonable improvement measures. Over the last few years, more than a hundred maturity models have been developed to support IT management. They address a broad range of different application areas, comprising holistic assessments of IT management as well as appraisals of specific subareas (e. g. Business Process Management, Business Intelligence).The evergrowing number of maturity models indicates a certain degree of arbitrariness concerning their development processes. Especially, this is highlighted by incomplete documentation of methodologies applied for maturity model development.In this paper, we will try to work against this trend by proposing requirements concerning the development of maturity models. A selection of the few well-documented maturity models is compared to these requirements. The results lead us to a generic and consolidated procedure model for maturity models. It provides a manual for the theoretically founded development and the design of evaluation of maturity models. Finally, we will apply this procedure model to the development of the IT Performance Measurement Maturity Model (ITPM3).
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Is it about Human(itie)s? Experiences from Software Projects across three Faculties
    (INFORMATIK 2019: 50 Jahre Gesellschaft für Informatik – Informatik für Gesellschaft (Workshop-Beiträge), 2019) Peukert, Hagen
    Considering the experience with software development in research projects in three different faculties, it is argued here that the issue of underspecification and finding out what is really wanted is not restricted to the Humanities. Rather, it occurs in Science and Social Science seemingly at the same ratio. However, in absence of representational data, statements at which exact shares the phenomenon really occurs, lead up the garden path. Hence, the question is raised whether the focus of software development in the Humanities should shift to human per se describing the fact that underspecification is a human trait of complex planning and problem solving behavior, but independent from the faculty’s epistemology. And possibly it comes to the fore in science more bluntly and it is particularly apparent in the Humanities, i.e. less blended. In fact, any specific account of software development in the Humanities is misleading because the focus on the Humanities blends the hermeneutics inherent in scientific work in general.
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Simulation-Based Research in Information Systems
    (Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 61, No. 4, 2019) Beese, Jannis; Haki, M. Kazem; Aier, Stephan; Winter, Robert
    Simulations provide a useful methodological approach for studying the behavior of complex socio-technical information systems (IS), in which humans and IT artifacts interact to process information. However, the use of simulations is relatively new in IS research and the current presence and impact of simulation-based studies is still limited. Furthermore, simulation-based research is quite different from other approaches, making it difficult to position and evaluate it adequately. Therefore, this paper first analyses the epistemic particularities of simulation-based IS research. Based on this analysis, a structured literature review of the status quo of simulation-based IS research was conducted, to understand how IS scholars currently employ simulation. A comparison of the epistemic particularities of simulation-based research with its status quo in IS literature allows to critically examine epistemic inferences in the respective research process. The results provide guidance for prospective simulation-based IS research through discussing the theory-based derivation of simulation models, as well as different simulation techniques, validation techniques, and simulation uses.
  • Workshopbeitrag
    Towards an Epistemological Classification of Usability Research
    (Mensch und Computer 2017 - Tagungsband, 2017) Britsch, Johannes
    How is software usability analyzed in literature? This paper aims to act as a first step towards an epistemological classification of usability research approaches, taking into account both the producer and consumer sides of software. Building upon the framework for research methods by Meredith et al. (1989), it sorts 60 conference works on usability engineering and usability testing along the research paradigm dimensions "rational/existential" and "natural/artificial." It compares the distributions of works of the two subfields, finding different methodical foci and hinting at under-represented research perspectives.