Research Faculty Publications Steven Sawyer 1. Further, software producers focus on making software components while software consumers buy software which they use to construct information systems. Finally, this market-oriented perspective on software development also suggests that it may be important to reconsider contemporary ISD wisdom regarding consumer analysis techniques and ISD skill needs for the consumer organizations. Back to top Back to Faculty Publications 2. The relationships between these constructs are assessed using an existing set of data on ISD work groups.
Results indicate that group process has a moderated relationship to group outcomes.
Conversely, higher levels of IT use weaken this relationship and suggest that other factors may be more influential. This implies that ISD professionals should be attentive to the relationship between group member's use of IT, their group processes, and the relationship to performance. For researchers, these findings suggest that there has been too much attention to individual differences, and not enough attention to the roles of group characteristics, group processes, and enabling factors, relative to their effect on ISD work group outcomes. Back to top Back to Faculty Publications 3. Knowledge Management for Information Professionals, Free Press.