Individuals from round the world are bringing together a variety of information technologies- networks, services, applications, devices, and advice -to create information systems that are personal. This emerging phenomenon is enabled by a convergence of inexpensive, strong, and ubiquitous devices and applications connected through international networks, inspired by an open ideology, and enacted by 'presuming' users. This informative article analyzes the phenomenon of the user-generated information system (UGIS) to better understand its beginnings and thus describe its nature. A version of the ideological and technical forces that bring to the shifting function of the user as information system creator, and to the emergence of issues and this capacity, is introduced. Implications for managers are discussed.
UGIS Understanding the Nature of User-Generated Information Systems Case Study Solution
PUBLICATION DATE: May 15, 2011 PRODUCT #: BH428-HCB-ENG
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