Organisational Semiotics for Business Informatics

Organisational Semiotics for Business Informatics clearly introduces the basic principles and describes a set of methods and techniques rooted in organisational semiotics. These have been applied to business applications; demonstrated through real life case studies. This ground-breaking book has the potential to transform the theoretical understanding of information systems into the basis of a scientific discipline.

List of contents

1.Introduction Part I: Organisational Semiotics 2.Understanding Sign and Semiotics 3.The Organisational Semiotics Framework for Business Informatics 4.Requirements Engineering in Information Systems Development 5.Informatics in Business Context 6.Organisational Modelling for Information Systems 7.Modelling Organisational Dynamics: Communications, Pragmatics and Norms 8.Organisations as Information Systems Part II: Applications 9.Information Systems Planning 10.Co-Design of Business and Technical Systems 11.Case Study: Systems Planning for Police Organisational 12.Case Study 2: Legacy Systems Re-Engineering for University Libraries 13.Information Systems to Support Business in Digital Age

About the author

Professor Kecheng Liu is Director of the Informatics Research Centre, Henley Business School at Reading, UK. He is a leading figure in Organisational Semiotics with extensive research into information systems and business informatics over the past 20 years.
Dr Weizi Li is a lecturer in business informatics, University of Reading, UK. Since completing her PhD in applied semiotics in systems architecture for digital hospitals, her research has focussed on co-design methodology for business and IT systems

Product details

• Authors: Weizi Li, Kecheng Liu, Kecheng Li Liu, Liu Kecheng
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2014
• EAN: 9780415823555
• ISBN: 978-0-415-82355-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Information Management, Knowledge Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Production & Operations Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Mathematics, Production & quality control management, Production and quality control management, Business mathematics and systems