Bøger af David Wastell

This volume, IFIP AICT 660, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference "e;Co-creating for Context in Prospective Transfer and Diffusion of IT"e; on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2022, held in Maynooth, Ireland, during June 15-16, 2022.The 19  full papers and 10 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers focus on the re-imagination of diffusion and adoption of emerging technologies. They are organized in the following parts:

In Managers as Designers in the Public Services, he draws startling parallels between our expectations of IT solutions in the public sector and the expectations of Melanesian canoe-builders who use bunches of grass to drive heaviness and slowness out of their boats. He then uses detailed examples and case studies from the UK and USA to show just how misplaced has been our reliance on IT-based 'solutions' to public sector problems. But this book is much more than an informed and devastating critique of the UK's Integrated Children's System, US educational reform and the high-profile failure of the London Ambulance Service. David Wastell goes on to develop and apply the principles of Systems Thinking and Design Thinking to show how we need a 'design revolution' in the public services. Rather than monitoring, measuring and controlling, public sector managers need to see themselves as designers, whose job it is to reshape work systems and the whole workplace. He then uses two further case studies to give concrete examples of Design Thinking in action, with highly positive outcomes from design-based approaches to IT innovation. David Wastell calls our continuing (and unwarranted) faith in imposed, computer-based solutions 'technomagic'.

This book offers an analysis of the limitations of child attachment theory as the basis for decision-making in child welfare practice, examining controversies and offering a new pedagogy that is responsive to the changing dynamics of contemporary families.

This timely book critically examines the capabilities and limitations of new areas of biology, especially epigenetics and neuroscience, that are used as powerful arguments for developing social policy in a particular direction, exploring their implications for policy and practice.

1 Jean Claude Derniame Software process technology is an emerging and strategic area that has already reached a reasonable degree of maturity, delivering products and significant industrial expe riences.