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Chapter 14

Value Discovery for IT

Project Selection

“In conventional economics, the ultimate goal of

any company is to maximize prot. But in the

knowledge society, a corporate vision has to tran-

scend such an objective and be based on an abso-

lute value that goes beyond nancial matrices.”

Ikujirō Nonaka (2011)

Value discovery is the rst phase in the ethical system devel-

opment life cycle (E-SDLC). Identifying the values inherent

in a future information technology (IT) system is no easy

task. To debate the impacts of a system on values in a mean-

ingful way, the project team needs to envision the future.

e most intuitive way to come up with ...