One thing that seems to be repeating itself over and over, when we discuss IT-systems, is the uncertainty of their roles in emergencies and exceptional
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Category: Information Systems
Gone with the phone… on information security
My wife lost her phone yesterday. The chaos that followed has really made me think about how vulnerable we are today, when literally almost everything
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Interview in the Magazine Vårt Uppsala
Åsa Cajander have been interviewed for the local magazine Vårt Uppsala. The interview was about all her areas of research, and the title indicates one
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Seminar with Lina Nilsson on “Social Challenges when Implementing eHealth in Healthcare – Organisational Experiences from Research and Development Projects”
Lina Nilsson’s does research on implementation of eHealth. She is a senior lecturer at the Linneaus University and works in health informatics. She has a
Read moreHow to separate the trees from the forest – The workplace as a Swiss army knife
Continuing on the “forests and trees” metaphor from a previous post we will now see what happens when you try to separate the trees from each other. So, let us start with one single tree (or task). One tree does not make a forest, but it can very easily be distinguished as a tree of a certain kind. A Pine tree has long needles; A fir tree has short needles. And a tree without needles is a leafy tree (unless it is a Gingko tree, but that is another story). However, once there are more trees in a lump, the categorisation becomes more difficult.
Read moreA social event in celebration of our new financial system
At Uppsala University, the administrative system Raindance has been updated to a new version. The HTO-group is doing collaborative work in relation to this project
Read moreLecture on Digitalization and our Work Environment
System development work is difficult, and many IT systems do not work satisfactorily despite intensive technology development. My research is about improving the situation
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What is DevOps? Is it a person? A tool? Maybe a culture? Or all of the above?
How can a term that is interpreted differently and always evolving be of success where it sets its foot, or is it just that people say that they use this ”so called DevOps” to be cool on the market and that in real life the people within the process does not like it at all?
Read moreThe trees that hide in the forest
Sometimes when we make studies on a work environment, e.g., as a preparation for software development, there seems to be a tendency to overlook the
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Vad kan vi lära av Ladok?
Nya Ladok har nu införts på Lunds universitet. Med denna milstolpe avslutas projektet. (Grattis till alla inblandade!) Arbetet tar inte slut utan övergår istället i
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