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Developing Organizational Strategy and Capability: Departments or Distributed expertise?

Posted by arlene

What do you do when you are given responsibility to develop an organization’s strategy and capability for involving users in the process, but that responsibility is not adequately supported? Is what you do much different than if that responsibility is accompanied by organizational support? How might organizational culture affect the strategy you develop?
At the E-Business [...]

Distinguishing Between Subjective and Objective Issues: What Exactly Does a Picture Paint? (continue…)

Posted by arlene

Making extensive use of VR graphics in the prototype stimulated a second, double-sided, issue. The plus side was fairly obvious in its nature, but quite surprising in its potency; many people were (are) impressed by flashy, animated computer graphics. As Brooks advocates, graphics relate much more directly to the way humans naturally interpret and communicate [...]

Distinguishing Between Subjective and Objective Issues: What Exactly Does a Picture Paint?

Posted by arlene

Interpretation of data, to provide information, will always raise subjective issues. The very notion that information should be placed into a context that is “appropriate” for a user, confirms that different people will tend to interpret the same thing in different ways. Images are a good example of this: everybody knows that a picture paints [...]

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