The organisations of today’s society face challenges more and more difficult to manage. Everything happens today at such a pace that to make predictions is an academic exercise. It is difficult to know how to move forward because so many times it is too complicate to understand where we are at present. However, one knows that organisations in general and companies in particular, need constantly to renew themsel...
The spread of mobile communications and IT artifacts in general, gives rise to a pervasive number of mobile working modalities, inducing transformations in social practices and organizational environments in a networked society. In order to design information systems we need to understand how information artifacts are used to get work done, and how these support work, inside and outside the organizations. By dr...
Individuals, like organizations, need to manage information for work (and non-work) related activities, on a daily basis. In order to extend their communication and fulfill information needs, people use artifacts (man made objects), that became increasingly technological, and in turn, these very technological artifacts are increasingly more dependent upon other supporting technologies, widely referred as infras...
Neste artigo apresentam-se os resultados de um estudo exploratório realizado no âmbito de um projecto mais vasto, (work in progress), que estuda a utilização de redes sociais e pretende questionar o papel, relevância, potencialidades e limitações destas nas organizações. Partimos do conceito de campo na acepção de Bourdieu, identificamos espaços sociais e espaços informacionais que se cruzam em contextos organi...
The spread of mobile communications and IT artifacts in general, gives rise to a pervasive number of mobile working modalities, inducing transformations in social practices and organizational environments in a networked society. In order to design information systems we need to understand how information artifacts are used to get work done, and how these support work, inside and outside the organizations. By dr...
This paper presents the results achieved throughout the process of preparing the ground to develop a collaboratory in an Engineering R&D organization. This case study is part of a broader research project engaged in building a collaboratory in order to share knowledge and resources among the Portuguese State laboratories. In the process of preparing the ground to develop the collaboratory in the first of the la...
This paper presents the results achieved throughout the process of preparing the ground to develop a collaboratory in an Engineering R&D organization. This case study is part of a broader research project engaged in building a collaboratory in order to share knowledge and resources among the Portuguese State laboratories. In the process of preparing the ground to develop the collaboratory in the first of the la...
This paper presents the results achieved so far in the process of preparing the ground to develop a collaboratory in an Engineering R&D organization. This case study is part of a broader research project engaged in building a collaboratory in order to share knowledge and resources among the Portuguese State Laboratories. In the process of preparing the ground to develop the collaboratory in the first of the Sta...
This paper presents the results achieved so far in the process of preparing the ground to develop a collaboratory in an Engineering R&D organization. This case study is part of a broader research project engaged in building a collaboratory in order to share knowledge and resources among the Portuguese State Laboratories. In the process of preparing the ground to develop the collaboratory in the first of the Sta...