The ‘Soft Information Systems and Technologies Methodology’ (SISTeM): an actor network contingency approach to integrated development
本文介绍了软信息系统与技术方法论（SISTeM），并通过健康领域的项目实例展示了其在整合信息与组织发展中的效用，适合信息系统研究者与实践者参考。
This paper describes the Soft Information Systems and Technologies Methodology (SISTeM), and demonstrates its utility in integrating informational and organisational development. The methodology and its stages are illustrated with examples from recent information systems and technology (IS&T) based projects, mainly in the health sector. Its antecedents in soft systems methodology are identified. The use of the approaches underpinning concept of the human/machine activity system is described. The nature of SISTeM as a social, political and technological form of contingency methodology, working with other approaches and disciplines, is demonstrated. SISTeM, it will be argued has capacity for orchestrating the emergence, consolidation and continual development of real world actor networks.