L04. Organizational Contexts

Date/Time: 
Mon, 09/12/2011 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm

The design of any service -- whether it will be performed by people or by information systems -- takes place in a context of:

  • Current and potential customers
  • Current and potential technologies
  • Current and potential competitors
  • Existing services or systems
  • Existing user or application interfaces
  • Legal, regulatory, cultural systems and constraints 

These factors or constraints can never be equally important; how they are weighted determines the appropriate design methodology and the key characteristics of the design.