Bourgeois

The stakes in the e-systems
Marcel BOURGEOIS, Conseiller en organisation, Versailles, France

Marcel BOURGEOIS hold an Engineer Diploma from the "Institut des Arts et Métiers- Lille" (1952) and a Master of Sciences in Management from the MIT (1960).
He worked as engineer in hydraulics from 1956 to 1962.
From 1962 to 1967 he was director at the Centre Français de Recherche Opérationnelle.
Since 1968 he was consultant in Operations research, organisation systems, information systems and management.
From 1967 to 1973 he was professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC - Paris) and built a cursus in Strategic Management and Organisation systems..
From 1973 to 1978 he was professor at the Centre de Formation Supérieure au Management.
In 1982 he created METSI a Software Engineering company of which he was the CEO until 1992.
From 1978 to 1985 he was founder chairman of the non-profit-making organisation Groupes d'Etude des Systèmes.
He was visiting professor at the University of Namur and at the University of Grenoble 2.
During his professional activity his research interest was the area of Organisation systems. His currently research interest is the criticism of modern and post-modern mentality.

Abstract

Probably, it is not exaggerated to think information technologies will produce strong disruptions in our societies, disruptions analog by their importance to those of the industrial revolution. But it is not appropriate to speak of information society by comparison to the industrial society. We are living in a world where the Society is broken up more and more in different and autonomous spheres : the spheres of technology, economics, capitalism and politics. For each of these spheres the information technologies and their application in the e-systems are a stake. The purpose of the paper is to analyse how these spheres and their interactions have an impact on the content of these e-systems and on their role in the Society: the paper will try to identify the deep stakes in the e-systems hidden behind so many ideological and technocratic speeches.