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Managing Sustainable Information Systems Development: Complexity, Culture, Balance and Mindfulness

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Sustainable information systems development (ISD) in the context of this paper is not about products that support sustainability at large with its environmental, economic and social dimensions and little about the development of sustainable products, which are both without doubt important topics. This paper is about a prerequisite for such products, namely, a sustainable ISD process, a process which exhibits reasonable and responsible stewardship and utilisation of the existing resources for ISD—people and information in the context of scope, time/schedule, budget/cost, quality and risk.

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    As the particular ISD methods are not in the focus of the presented argument, they are not further explained in this paper. Further information can be found in the texts referenced in Sect. 1.

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    The idea of mindfulness is however much older; it is an ancient Buddhist concept linked to Buddhist meditation and has been related to “the art of conscious living” (see ref. [50]).

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    Karlheinz Kautz

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Kautz, K. (2013). Managing Sustainable Information Systems Development: Complexity, Culture, Balance and Mindfulness. In: Linger, H., Fisher, J., Barnden, A., Barry, C., Lang, M., Schneider, C. (eds) Building Sustainable Information Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7540-8_1

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