Information Systems Governance and Industry 4.0 - Epistemology of Data and Semiotics Methodologies of IS in Digital Ecosystems

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Contemporary Information Systems management incorporates theneed to make explicit the links between semiotics, meaning-making and thedigital age. This focus addresses, at its core, pure rationality, that is, the capacityof human interpretation and of human inscription upon reality. Creating the newreal, that is the motto. Humans are intrinsically semiotic creatures. Consequently,semiotics is not a choice or an option but something that works like asecond skin, establishing limits and permeable linkages between: (i) humanthought and human’s infinite world of imagination; and (ii) human action, withits correspondent infinite world of intentionality, of desire and of unexploredpossibilities. Two instances are contrasted as two reading lenses of currentbusiness reality: IS governance and industry 4.0. These phenomena correspondto the need to take accountability, transparency and responsibility into account,when designing IS and when using such systems through the ecology of connectivity,Big Data and the Internet of Things. Political, social and culturaldimensions are brought into the equation, when addressing the question of therelevance and adequateness of IS theory and practice to respond to contemporarychallenges. The message is that what has already been achieved is but ashadow, a pale vision, of what might be achieved in the age of the newRenaissance.