My learning experience on the module “Key Issues in Information Systems Development””

The most extraordinary work that I have done so far this year was the paper entitled by me as “Locked in Technologies in Information Systems Development”. Even if I do not know what I will get from this paper¹ but I am sure that this is probably a bigging of something new although I wish it to be a begining of a new book. So, please, try not to be too critical as these are just my thoughts and imaginations…

Introduction to any work is similar to preparation for diving on big submarine. This introduction will allow the reader to make his time to prepare for difficult diving into the world of technologies and human rationalism. So, please, prepare every single thought and all ideas that you have about these subjects, as the journey into deep ocean of Technology and the Information Systems will bring you immediately to complete denial of reality and will probably change some of your thoughts.

While learning on the module “Key Issues in Information Systems Development”, I have understood that lots of issues raised here will never be examined from alternative viewpoint, if we do not try to look at them from another side; to go a little deeper into problems and structure of these problems, and mainly into faults of the systems. No system is perfect, of course, but there are ones that do not develop any more, similar to technologies that should develop the systems. They are stuck for so many years that nobody believes that this kind of systems could be moved forward. So this is why it is very important to determine this kind of systems and to develop them. This complicated connection between locked in technologies and organizational systems that work on these technologies handled as target in this work. This makes me to do a quite rational act of changing the title of this assignment dramatically into “Locked in Technologies in Systems Development”. And this obviously easy step was done by me as far as I followed my thoughts deeper into Information Systems development issues and causes.
Looking into the essence of issues raised at the module we would find many similarities. The most important similarity shows one important word from which everything starts – “Standardization”. For any scientist this word is truly the symbol of technological development, the hope of humanization of any invention and, of course, the symbol of success. But from another point of view this word is also a symbol of getting stuck, the failure of development. As far as any researcher is exited by this word he/she forgets that it can bring to a deadlock and not only in their own researches but also in the whole research area. This very important fact has not been examined at all and still remains undiscovered for many cases that are obviously locked in technological developments.

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