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    A triple bottom-line typology of technical debt: Supporting decision-making in cross-functional teams
    (University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2022-01-04) Greville, Mark; O'Raghallaigh, Paidi; McCarthy, Stephen
    Technical Debt (TD) is a widely discussed metaphor in IT practice focused on increased short-term benefit in exchange for long-term ‘debt’. While it is primarily individuals or groups inside IT departments who make the decisions to take on TD, we find that the effects of TD stretch across the entire organisation. Decisions to take on TD should therefore concern a wider group. However, business leaders have traditionally lacked awareness of the effects of what they perceive to be ‘technology decisions’. To facilitate TD as group-based decision-making, we review existing literature to develop a typology of the wider impacts of TD. The goal is to help technologists, non-technologists, and academics have a broader and shared understanding of TD and to facilitate more participatory and transparent technology-related decision making. We extend the typology to include a wider ‘outside in’ perspective and conclude by suggesting areas for further research.
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    Designing information systems to break habits and promote preventive behaviours during large-scale disease outbreaks
    (University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2021-01-05) Chung, Alexander; Lessard, Lysanne; Andreev, Pavel; O'Reilly, Philip; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
    Adhering to preventive behaviours, like social distancing and wearing a mask, can help reduce the spread of some transmissible diseases; however, doing so can be a challenge as it requires people to break established habits. This challenge will be most evident for organisations as they need to ensure that all stakeholders adhere to preventive behaviours to resume in-person business operations. While various information systems (IS) have emerged to address this challenge, they remain limited in scope and fall short of helping users navigate the evolving practices and guidelines of a pandemic. To address this shortcoming, we adopt the design science research approach to derive design principles for IS supporting the breaking of established habits and promotion of preventive behaviours. The design principles are rigorously anchored in the habit alteration knowledge base and the Health Belief Model. We demonstrate how the design principles can be applied using an illustrative case.
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    SmaRT visualisation of legal rules for compliance
    (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2018-01-17) Seppälä, Selja; Ceci, Marcello; Huang, Hai; O'Brien, Leona; Butler, Tom; Rodríguez-Doncel, Victor; Casanovas, Pompeu; González-Conejero, Jorge
    This paper presents a visualization technique to assist legal experts in formalising their interpretation of legal texts in terms of regulatory requirements. (Semi-)automation of compliance processes requires a machine-readable version of legal requirements in a format that enables effective compliance assessment. The use of a semi-structured controlled natural language as an intermediate step of the translation from a human-readable text to a machine-readable and understandable format ensures that the process of interpretation of those requirements is as simple as possible. However, it does not ensure that the formal representation resulting from the interpretation faithfully represents the intended semantics provided by the legal expert. Visualization techniques such as property graphs in Neo4j could fill this gap, allowing legal experts to understand and control the formal representation of the result of their act of interpretation.
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    Ephemeral returns: Social network valuations and perceived privacy
    (Association for Information Systems (AIS), 2017) Browne, Oliver; O'Reilly, Philip; Hutchinson, Mark
    This paper investigates the valuations of social media platforms (SMPs) in light of the recent initial public offering (IPO) of Snapchat. Innovative platforms with unproven business models and non-voting shares commanding relatively high valuations at IPO stage as well as a shift in investor profile towards personal rather than institutional investors have eerie connotations with the tech bubble of 2000. We posit that investors value a passive audience for SMPs rather than an active user community and apply potentially unrealistic customer lifetime values and expected user growth in a highly competitive market. We also posit that investors overestimate willingness to participate, the potential success in the adoption of paid services and do not account fully for perceived or real privacy features.
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