Research projects in IT service companies
This chapter illustrates projects developed in the research laboratories of two IT service companies. At Xerox in Grenoble (France), the project supporting paper-saving was successful; the second project, which aimed at outsourcing data entry, was stopped because of the difficulty in reaching an ade...
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
03.02.2022
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Summary: | This chapter illustrates projects developed in the research laboratories of two IT service companies. At Xerox in Grenoble (France), the project supporting paper-saving was successful; the second project, which aimed at outsourcing data entry, was stopped because of the difficulty in reaching an adequate level of data quality; the last project, which aimed to support workers in a call centre, was problematic because of the conflicting views of the researchers and the deployers regarding the competences mobilized by workers. At IBM Research—Almaden in San Jose (United States), two projects aimed to introduce machine learning technologies: in the first case, this was to increase the use of available operational and transactional data to run internal sales operations; in the second one, it was to support IT service designers as they prepared architectural solutions in response to requests from clients. Both projects were stopped because of the difficulty the workers faced in appropriating this new and complex technology. |
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ISBN: | 0198862504 9780198862505 |
DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198862505.003.0009 |