[Year 12 SofDev] SD 2016

[Adrian Janson]

Hi everyone,

I am a little torn with two of the (last) KK points for the new study and
wanted to see if you had any ideas / advice?  BTW - I have finished the
text and have sent it to an editor - while in the meantime attending to the
technical additions and questions that you have offered via the dropbox
(please do keep doing this - now is the time!!)

So in Unit 4, Outcome 2, we have:

"data management practices that cause conflict between information systems,
including data mining"

Now I have spoken about things like a lack of standards or enforcement of
these (for example - database structures that are different between
systems), but I am struggling to think of many more.

I also feel that the "including data mining" is a bit of a curve ball - as
my understanding was that data mining was drilling down in a data set to
extract as much information as possible and makes links - but this is not
something that you would do with data that isn't yours?? (I may be wrong!!)

We also have the KK point:

"advantages and disadvantages for stakeholders affected by the operation of
information systems"

Again it may just be because (being so close to the end of the text), my
mind has turned to mush - but I can't make much of this...

Is it just that an effective IS is good because it is fast, responsive,
does it's job,etc. and a poorly designed IS means that stakeholders can
lose data, waste time, etc.??

Thanks in advance!!!
Adrian Janson
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