You are right, there IS a line between culture and politics. But thats the thing. You should count politics as part of your requirements too, or thats what the

You are right, there IS a line between culture and politics. But thats the thing. You should count politics as part of your requirements too, or thats what the theory states anyway. For example, lets say you digitized an inventory form for a sales dept of a plastic company. By doing this, you effectively removed use of a pen from the 'system'. Now what politics could you possibly be affecting by eliminating use of a pen? Well, you could cause an uproar between the finance dept and the sales dept. Finance says that the organization's major stock holder is a pen company and the sales department must use pens (for whatever reason...lets pick advertising and promotion). Now your system made the world efficient but it failed to account the current work practices of your client. You, sir, just screwed up.