Information Systems Management

Foreword

We all live and think in boxes, or starting from boxes. It may be those of our practices, our personal lives or our working lives. The same applies to knowledge. Modern science – and therefore techniques – is so specialized that neighbors in a biology laboratory, for example, do not understand each other’s work, or only at the cost of lengthy and patient studies. Yet by their own admission, scientists who would like to take an interest in the work of colleagues with slightly different specialisms from their own do not do so, due to lack of time. This observation can easily be made more generalized: we do not take an interest in other people’s work due to lack of time, time that flies more and more quickly and nips in the bud our desire to properly understand what is happening in our world and to help ensure that its future is as bright as possible for everyone.

We are all capable of talking about what is going on in the world. Talking about it as non-specialists, talking about it superficially, at the local bar. We can all come up with theories on what should be done to make the world a better place, and set the world to rights. When it comes to putting theories into practice, that is a different matter, because changing our practices based on specific problems is a very big ask, and it seems insane – especially, of course, if we would be trying to do this on our own. The effort must be made by a number of people. Changing our practices based on well-expressed theories ...