Lecture series

The University of Cape Town invites you to an inaugural lecture by Professor Lisa Seymour

Topic: Calling for a Systems Approach to Technology in Organisations

Information Systems research suffers from a lack of systems thinking. A core focus has been on how users and organisations adopt software and what variables improve this. This doesn’t explain why some software is successful or unsuccessful or what should be done about it. These are messy problems which systems thinking is good for. In this inaugural lecture, Professor Seymour will show how systems thinking can explain challenges experienced when organisations implement enterprise software. Systems thinking can also help explain the associated coping mechanisms. She will also map a vision of how university courses can better prepare Business Analysts to help solve these challenges.

 

 

Date: Thursday, 9 May 2024

Time: 17:30 SAST

Venue: Seminar Room, Level 4, School of Economics Building, Middle Campus, University of Cape Town

 
Lisa Seymour

About our speaker

Lisa Seymour, Professor in the Department of Information Systems (IS) at the University of Cape Town, researches and teaches in the areas of business processes, enterprise systems and IS education, with particular emphasis on regional development in Southern Africa. Her area includes studying how organisations, particularly within the SME and public sector in Africa, can derive benefit from their business processes and enterprise systems. She is also interested in solving educational challenges in this space and in working collaboratively on these challenges. Lisa is the director of the Centre for IT and National Development in Africa (CITANDA), on the executive of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT), principal researcher for Enterprise Systems Education for Africa (ESEFA) and chair of the SAP African Academic Board.

 

 

  

The venue has reached capacity for in-person attendance.

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