Lecture 2 focuses on Choo's article about information model of organizations. Students pick up the buzz words and comment on the article. You will learn, that the reason why people tend to choose the satisfying way instead of optimal way is because being optimal is time consuming and it requires for critical thinking. At the end of the lecture you will learn that also an organization can have its own cognitive style and it reacts to the environment in either passive or active way.

Before any lecture either open or save to your computer the assigned PowerPoint presentations.

Assignment before the lecture: Read the following article, which is a good overview of several approaches on organizations based on the information model of organizations.

Choo, Chun Wei (1991). Towards an information model of organisations. The Canadian Journal of Information Science. 16(3): 32-62.

No slides related to this lecture.

Listen to the lecture, and afterwards do the assignment given below.

Write your personal learning experiences into your personal Reflective report. The Reflective report for Session 2 will be submitted in one file after Lecture 4.

Assignment after the lecture: After reading the article and listening to students' discussion, what are your comments on Choo's information model of organizations: focus on chapter 3 in the article.