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Shaping Evolution of Information Infrastructures: Architecture, Governance, and Process Strategy

Explore the theories and design principles of information infrastructures, focusing on generative technologies, architectures, and governance. Learn the key factors that lead to successful infrastructure evolution and innovation.

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Shaping Evolution of Information Infrastructures: Architecture, Governance, and Process Strategy

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  1. INF5210 Overview & summary

  2. Shaping the Evolution of Information Infrastructures:Architecture, Governance Regime, Process Strategy

  3. Towards a Theory of Information Infrastructures A Theories of Information Infrastructures (Evolution & Design) Architecture Assemblage Theory Governance Process Strategies Complexity Science Actor Network Theory Reflexive Modernisation

  4. Design theory • Kernel theory • Design principles and guidelines

  5. II • Shared, open heterogeneous, evolving installed base. • Complexity • Emergence, path-dependence, non-liearity • Interactions between and propagation of side-effects • Self-reinforcing • Reflexivity

  6. Infrastructure evolution • Evolution • Adoption • Scaling • Innovation • Harmonization/restructuring/consolidation • Crumbling/fragmentation

  7. Innovation • Of, in, on • W. Brian Arthur • The nature of technology. What it is and how it evolves • Out of a material • (re-)combination • Structural deepening • Re-domaing

  8. Design = installed base cultivationSuccessful information infrastructures=Generative information infrastructure

  9. Generative Technology • ”.. A technology’s overall capacity to produce unprompted change driven by large, varied, and uncoordinated audiences.” • Capacity for leverage • Adaptability • Ease of mastery • Accessibility • Computers • PC & Internet • Opposite: Appliances • Telecom: intelligent network + appliances Department of Informatics

  10. Generative Technology • ”.. A technology’s overall capacity to produce unprompted change driven by large, varied, and uncoordinated audiences.” • Capacity for leverage • Adaptability • Ease of mastery • Accessibility • Computers • PC & Internet • Opposite: Appliances • Telecom: intelligent network + appliances Department of Informatics

  11. Generative infrastructure • = • Generative architecture • Generative governance regime • Generative process strategy • Generative fit

  12. Requirements to II architectures • Bootstrapable, i.e. the architecture needs to make it possible to build the II in the first place. To achieve this, the solutions need to be simple and the architecture needs to enable the II to be developed by a small organization of low (organizational) complexity. • Aligned with the structures of an appropriate organization responsible for the operations of the II, i.e. the architecture needs to be operationable. • Flexible to enable experimental architecting and adaptable to new requirements as the II matures and scales. • Extensible to allow for new innovations extending the II.

  13. Requirements to II architectures • Bootstrapable, i.e. the architecture needs to make it possible to build the II in the first place. To achieve this, the solutions need to be simple and the architecture needs to enable the II to be developed by a small organization of low (organizational) complexity. • Aligned with the structures of an appropriate organization responsible for the operations of the II, i.e. the architecture needs to be operationable. • Flexible to enable experimental architecting and adaptable to new requirements as the II matures and scales. • Extensible to allow for new innovations extending the II.

  14. (Process) Strategy • Specification driven or evolutionary • Bootstrapping • Anticipatory standardization • Integrated applications • Flexible generification

  15. Architecture • Loose or tight couplings/integration • Centralized or decentralized (end-2-end) • Platforms • INA/ACA • SPA/CSCA

  16. Governance regime • Hierarcical organization, project management tools • Federated, distribution of decision rights • Digital commons, communication tools • Open source, wikipedia, …

  17. Cases • Aims? (Harmonization, innovation ,,) • Process strategy, governance regime & archtecure changes over time • Bootstrapping, architectural innovation • Scaling, adoption, innovation

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