ABSTRACT
There has been much discussed and argued since the opening sentences, which asserted that the discipline of information systems is required to change. The book has attempted to outline why change is required; it has outlined problems in practice, in curricula design, and in research. It has argued that the discipline needs to become much more focused on organizational problem solving, in which technology plays a key role in the ongoing innovation in human organizational processes. It has provided a set of inquiring activities that might help to guide IS practice and organizational problem solving. They are of course limited and without doubt can be adapted, enhanced or changed. Nonetheless, their integration into information systems practices might be considered by some to be a signifi cant shift in emphasis in the discipline and in practice. This chapter hypothesizes around some of the implications of such a shift.
