Four phases of information technology: Implications for forecasting IT work

A model is presented of the location of IT specialists in their principal workplaces and of changes that have occurred in this location, in the job content and in the management of IT specialists. Three main phases are identified in the development of computerization-different waves of movement stim...

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Published inFutures : the journal of policy, planning and futures studies Vol. 22; no. 8; pp. 787 - 800
Main Author Friedman, Andrew L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Guilford, Eng Elsevier Ltd 01.10.1990
Butterworths
Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects
Computer industry
Computers
Cybernetics
Future
History
Information
Information systems
Information Technology
Job descriptions
Office Automation
Phases
Predictions
Professional Workers
Specialists
Studies
Supervision
Technology
Workplaces
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Summary:A model is presented of the location of IT specialists in their principal workplaces and of changes that have occurred in this location, in the job content and in the management of IT specialists. Three main phases are identified in the development of computerization-different waves of movement stimulating change in the nature of IT work and in the management of IT specialists. The rise of end user computing interacting with the growth of new types of IT uses and users is highlighted. The article concludes by assessing the impact of a new phase of continuing change in the future.
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ISSN:0016-3287
1873-6378
DOI:10.1016/0016-3287(90)90016-B