This document discusses the authors' encounters with and interpretations of socio-technical systems through their careers working with organizations. It describes two of the authors' histories working with socio-technical approaches over decades. It also discusses key concepts in socio-technical systems thinking including process mapping, action research approaches, and conceptualizations of organizations as open systems.
Where does technological innovation happen? We tend to think of smart engineers solving technical problems and delivering us amazing new products.
The SCOT (Social Construction of Technology) tradition contests this story. Instead, it argues for interpretive flexibility: the meanings of these products is not secured until specific groups of users take them up.
This lecture uses the case study of computers to illustrate the shifting meanings (and opening and closing down of features) as the dominant user groups of computers changed.
Financial Considerations for SaaS Companiesbdsoftware
Chad Varra, CFO of SendGrid, leads a discussion with members of the Boulder and Denver Software Clubs. These slides show some of the numbers and concepts to which Chad spoke.
the meaning of effectiveness and efficiency
the meaning of the organisation effectiveness
historical opinions
approaches
models
OE criteria for selecting constituencies
how do we increase OE
Where does technological innovation happen? We tend to think of smart engineers solving technical problems and delivering us amazing new products.
The SCOT (Social Construction of Technology) tradition contests this story. Instead, it argues for interpretive flexibility: the meanings of these products is not secured until specific groups of users take them up.
This lecture uses the case study of computers to illustrate the shifting meanings (and opening and closing down of features) as the dominant user groups of computers changed.
Financial Considerations for SaaS Companiesbdsoftware
Chad Varra, CFO of SendGrid, leads a discussion with members of the Boulder and Denver Software Clubs. These slides show some of the numbers and concepts to which Chad spoke.
the meaning of effectiveness and efficiency
the meaning of the organisation effectiveness
historical opinions
approaches
models
OE criteria for selecting constituencies
how do we increase OE
They say Culture eats Strategy for breakfast. This is true because the biggest leadership challenge to improving an organisation's internal environment is culture. Without a supportive culture even the most brilliant strategy will not get implemented successfully. Without cultural allignment to changing landscape, at best you will get compliance and with it stress, dysfunctional waste and entropy.
Systems thinking goes beyond the use of systems tools. In this presentation, delivered as a keynote at the 2019 Systems Innovation Conference in Barcelona, Philippe Vandenbroeck (shiftn.com) lays out a path to systems mastery that is grounded in a personal ethos and worldview as a basis for the capacity to apply tools, developing method and sustain the capacity for social learning in dealing with complex challenges.
Slides with notes for my workshop at Lean UX 2014. This is an iterated version of my 2013 workshop - different exercise, slightly different content, but much is similar. Includes link to handout!
Systems Thinking in Practice - an Open University showcasedtr4open
Presentation details the Open University's Systems Thinking in Practice Masters programme along with examples of practice from STiP Alumni as showcased at the UK Public Sector Show April 2013.
Learning with technology as coordinated sociomaterial practice: digital liter...Martin Oliver
While considerable attention has been given to the concept of learning – what it is, how we might know it when we see it, and how to intervene in it – by contrast, technology remains under-theorised. While theoretical approaches that have developed accounts of the relationship between technology and human action, few of these are well represented within educational technology or networked learning. This paucity of theorisation has resulted in simplistic accounts of the role of technology in various kinds of learning, usually involving some kind of causal or determining mechanism. Such accounts are vulnerable to critique (e.g. Friesen, 2009), but nonetheless remain prevalent.
In this paper, I will recap some of the problems with this position, and then consider alternatives that address issues around agency and the role of the social. Specifically, drawing on Mol’s concept of praxiology, developed in the context of work on the constitution of diseases in medical practice, I will explore alternative ways in which educational uses of technology can be understood. This value of this will be illustrated through the design of a study of digital literacies. Some implications of this include for researchers – including concerns about reflexivity – will then be drawn out.
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Some simple suggestions
Ethnographic or qualitative studies are always to some degree emergent: they're dances in which the
researchers follow the leads of the participants. Still, you've got to have some idea of what kind of dance
event it is (a masked ball or a rave) before you can proceeed. You need, in other words, a clear picture of
the issues and questions you want to investigate, some idea of how you're going to go about investigating
them, but also a readiness to improvise and revise. Ideally, you work out designs with colleagues and
advisors (including participants), but there are also some standard features, forms, and cautions that can be
suggested (the numbered components below are taken from the chapter titles in Joe Maxwell's Qualitative
Research Design: An interactive approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996, the best available text on
design that I'm aware of (which isn't to say that I agree with all of it). The rest, e.g., my suggestions on
framing research questions, are my own, though it should go without saying that these are simply ways of
thinking that I've absorbed ideas from others over the years.).
1) What's the topic, the focal process you're interested in? What are the goals of the study? Why
do you want to conduct it? Why is it worthwhile?
Qualitative studies are ways of learning about how processes and events unfold. They are usually not useful
for asking questions about the distribution or variance of taken-for-granted-entities. So, a goal for an
ethnographic study might entail examining some taken-for-granted or ignored process that seems important
or central to some vital institution. It might involve questioning familiar categories (asking how they come
to be, for example). And so forth.
2) What is the context for the study? What are the theories, or the research literatures, or the
policy positions you anticipate drawing on, challenging, or addressing, through your research?
Bear in mind that "contexts" are not given in the phenomena or settings you study: in other words, your
research is a wau of creating or defining what counts as a context: you're crafting representations of people,
things, events within certain frames - either ones you've choosen, or the participants have choosen, or ones
promoted by governments, disciplines, organizations (and of course, the processes of contextualization and
framing should be topics of inquiry). My own preference is to recognize layers - or perhaps it would be
better to simply say "alternative" frames - of context. Multiply possible connections. Many theories are
better than one.
3) Research Questions: what do you want to get smart about? What are you presently ignorant
about?
These questions should be how questions, they shoul ...
They say Culture eats Strategy for breakfast. This is true because the biggest leadership challenge to improving an organisation's internal environment is culture. Without a supportive culture even the most brilliant strategy will not get implemented successfully. Without cultural allignment to changing landscape, at best you will get compliance and with it stress, dysfunctional waste and entropy.
Systems thinking goes beyond the use of systems tools. In this presentation, delivered as a keynote at the 2019 Systems Innovation Conference in Barcelona, Philippe Vandenbroeck (shiftn.com) lays out a path to systems mastery that is grounded in a personal ethos and worldview as a basis for the capacity to apply tools, developing method and sustain the capacity for social learning in dealing with complex challenges.
Slides with notes for my workshop at Lean UX 2014. This is an iterated version of my 2013 workshop - different exercise, slightly different content, but much is similar. Includes link to handout!
Systems Thinking in Practice - an Open University showcasedtr4open
Presentation details the Open University's Systems Thinking in Practice Masters programme along with examples of practice from STiP Alumni as showcased at the UK Public Sector Show April 2013.
Learning with technology as coordinated sociomaterial practice: digital liter...Martin Oliver
While considerable attention has been given to the concept of learning – what it is, how we might know it when we see it, and how to intervene in it – by contrast, technology remains under-theorised. While theoretical approaches that have developed accounts of the relationship between technology and human action, few of these are well represented within educational technology or networked learning. This paucity of theorisation has resulted in simplistic accounts of the role of technology in various kinds of learning, usually involving some kind of causal or determining mechanism. Such accounts are vulnerable to critique (e.g. Friesen, 2009), but nonetheless remain prevalent.
In this paper, I will recap some of the problems with this position, and then consider alternatives that address issues around agency and the role of the social. Specifically, drawing on Mol’s concept of praxiology, developed in the context of work on the constitution of diseases in medical practice, I will explore alternative ways in which educational uses of technology can be understood. This value of this will be illustrated through the design of a study of digital literacies. Some implications of this include for researchers – including concerns about reflexivity – will then be drawn out.
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DESIGNING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PROPOSALS
Some simple suggestions
Ethnographic or qualitative studies are always to some degree emergent: they're dances in which the
researchers follow the leads of the participants. Still, you've got to have some idea of what kind of dance
event it is (a masked ball or a rave) before you can proceeed. You need, in other words, a clear picture of
the issues and questions you want to investigate, some idea of how you're going to go about investigating
them, but also a readiness to improvise and revise. Ideally, you work out designs with colleagues and
advisors (including participants), but there are also some standard features, forms, and cautions that can be
suggested (the numbered components below are taken from the chapter titles in Joe Maxwell's Qualitative
Research Design: An interactive approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996, the best available text on
design that I'm aware of (which isn't to say that I agree with all of it). The rest, e.g., my suggestions on
framing research questions, are my own, though it should go without saying that these are simply ways of
thinking that I've absorbed ideas from others over the years.).
1) What's the topic, the focal process you're interested in? What are the goals of the study? Why
do you want to conduct it? Why is it worthwhile?
Qualitative studies are ways of learning about how processes and events unfold. They are usually not useful
for asking questions about the distribution or variance of taken-for-granted-entities. So, a goal for an
ethnographic study might entail examining some taken-for-granted or ignored process that seems important
or central to some vital institution. It might involve questioning familiar categories (asking how they come
to be, for example). And so forth.
2) What is the context for the study? What are the theories, or the research literatures, or the
policy positions you anticipate drawing on, challenging, or addressing, through your research?
Bear in mind that "contexts" are not given in the phenomena or settings you study: in other words, your
research is a wau of creating or defining what counts as a context: you're crafting representations of people,
things, events within certain frames - either ones you've choosen, or the participants have choosen, or ones
promoted by governments, disciplines, organizations (and of course, the processes of contextualization and
framing should be topics of inquiry). My own preference is to recognize layers - or perhaps it would be
better to simply say "alternative" frames - of context. Multiply possible connections. Many theories are
better than one.
3) Research Questions: what do you want to get smart about? What are you presently ignorant
about?
These questions should be how questions, they shoul ...
In search of a model of human dynamics analysis applied to social sciencesDalton Martins
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considering humans as agents of multiple
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Conclusions – the future of ideologiesJudging ideol.docxmccormicknadine86
Conclusions – the future of ideologies?
Judging ideologies
What is the “best” ideology? Why?
Categories
Change: Reform/Revolution
Authority: Place of Individual/State
Free Will/Volunteerism versus Determinism
Human Nature
Good and/or Evil Competition and/or Cooperation
Equality and Greatest Freedom
Basis of Society (political, gender, religion, economic)
The “beast”/reaction against
Future of ideologies?
Ideologies – social transformation and political development = ongoing cycle?
“End of Ideology” – Endism?
What drives the formation of ideologies?
Democracy – the best?
“Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time” Winston Churchill
Future of ideologies? (continued)
Newly Emerging Ideologies
Globalism (globalization = process)
Connectivity/Interconnectedness
Global trends
Identity
Signs
Critiques
Future of ideologies? (continued)
Newly (re) Emerging Ideologies
Localism
Limited Connectivity / Local Identity
Populism
Heywood, p. 291 “”the belief that the instincts and wishes of the people provide the principle legitimate guide to political action”
Authority with “the people” / assumptions about elite
Future of ideologies? (continued)
Trumpism?
Trends
Immigration
Working Class
Divides – rural/urban, conservative/liberal
Increasing polarization
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● Trends & Recommendations
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Assessment Type: Project Report
Individual/Group: Individual
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Issue Date: 21/6/19
Hand In Date: 07/8/19
Mode of Submission: Moodle
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You are working in the Big Data Dept. of the ‘Red Cloud’ company – a large
multinational, reporting to the newly appointed CEO.
As she is new to the role, she would like a report (3000 words) explaining the
Information Management strategy of the company.
You should include the following topics in this report:
Data Analytics, Data Collection & Storage and the methods and technologies used in
analysing the Data.
Data Abstraction Layers, Data Warehousing and Data Mining.
The role and benefits of your Big Data Dept prior to a restructure.
She also wants a Data Visualisation to illustrate a relevant Data Set for 3 of the
below headings.
1. Data analytics – ...
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Relational coordination theory makes visible the social processes, the human interactions, that underly the technical process of coordinating complex work. It describes the management of interdependence not only between tasks but also between the people who perform those tasks.
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Can working less lead to a healthier economy and better environmental conditions? Which factors should be taken into consideration when forming an answer to this question? In this article Nicholas Ashford and Giorgos Kallis discuss how affluent economies often have shorter work-weeks and why, under the right conditions, more free time can decrease unemployment and help develop a greener, more sustainable Europe.
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2. David – Beginning late 2000s, with a new Director who attempted
to bring together evaluation and consultancy
Fiddy – Beginning late 1970s with Jebson’s, worked with STS for
35 years
Our encounters
Interpretations of Socio-Technical Systems
4. Second encounter
Running a reading group, encouraged to learn about Socio-Technical systems
“The very term "socio-technical," used to characterize work systems,
implies that there has been a process of splitting which needs to be
rectified. Splitting is a process of psychic economy whereby people tend to
simplify a complex situation by attributing all its X characteristics to one of
a pair and all its Y characteristics to the other. The goodies are all-good
and wear white hats, and the baddies are all-bad and wear black hats and
possibly also black moustaches. Splitting means that one is most unlikely
to be presented with a black moustache under a white hat.”
Lisl Klein, 1989, ‘On the Collaboration Between Social Scientists and
Engineers: Dynamics and Models’
Interpretations of Socio-Technical Systems
5. Third encounter
Interpretations of Socio-Technical Systems
Process mapping follows the work of Russ Akoff and whole systems
thinking.
Training at Vanguard on process mapping – a memorable event
Encouraged to do so at a LM meeting with Fiddy
Purpose of process mapping:
Configure systems so they are doing their core
activity in the best possible way for the
customer
Minimize the amount of (unnecessary) support
for that activity.
6. Vanguard method for process
checking
1. What is the purpose of the system (in customer terms)?
2. Demand: what matters to the customers
3. Capability of response
4. Flow: value work + waste
5. System conditions
6. Thinking
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Design against demand. Right first time. Single piece flow. Minimising
handovers/steps. Individuals are responsible for their own work.
7. Encounter …4?
STS Roundtable preparation
Abstract writing and discovering different ways of
understanding STS
Attending first STS conference
Getting into the archaeology of STS
Interpretations of Socio-Technical Systems
8. My story of Jebsens UK
The company: a bulk carrier, UK subsidiary of Norwegian company (no
UK ports used)
The presenting problem: ships stuck in ports around the world due to
lack of crew: problem of recruitment?
Diagnostic stage: 2 sequential lines of enquiry:
• Analysis of recruitment, numbers involved etc, is there a problem
there? Yes and No
• What happens to staff once through the door: enquiry through ship-
based studies revealed a range of issues: lack of community on
long (9 month voyages) through segmented social life and spaces:
AR and Culture change
• Getting to know Emery’s 9 step model through Michael Foster
Interpretations of Socio-Technical Systems
9. Action research to improve
shipboard life: main features
• Steering Group of Jebsens SMT, NUS, MNAOA, action researchers
(PQ, ES, FA)
• Large scale simulation of issues leading to
• Piloting a shipboard community: ship’s company (selected by CEO)
+ SG conference start-up
• Developing ownership through the fleet
• Redesigning back-office functions
• Re-designing ships’ social spaces
• Whole systems conference for industry
Interpretations of Socio-Technical Systems
10. Definitions and issues for practice
Socio-technical systems design: takes work processes as its starting
point, maps how work crosses organizational and departmental
boundaries, expects to design/redesign boundaries around the
social and technical requirements of work processes eg team
working – can be used as an expert practice, can get stuck at the
lower levels, can be captured by Taylorists
Action research: deploys a cycle of planning, taking action, collecting
data about that action to support: can emphasize research or can
emphasize action
Participatory action research: involves the actors in the enquiry
participating as enquirers, can lose intended focus, dissipate into
terms and conditions
Interpretations of Socio-Technical Systems
11. Near Environment
Far Environment
Input Output
Conversion or
Transformation
Feedback Loop
‘Open Systems’ Model as Basic
Tool for STS Design
Interpretations of Socio-Technical Systems
12. My notions of STS Approach:
STS and the psycho-social
(based on Miller & Rice, via Michael Foster)
• Three types of organisation are required for conversion or
transformation of input to output
– Perform and manage primary task
– Meet sentient needs of belonging and identity
– Regulate the balance between task and sentient needs
• STS boundaries are drawn at points of discontinuity (interfaces)
– Within the boundaries are continuities
• Operating, managing, controlling, servicing the primary task
• This is a first order differentiation
– In relation to the first order, there is a second order
differentiation
• Operating, managing, controlling, servicing those who are in
first order
– A manager can only be held accountable for what happens
within the boundaries of their differentiated part of the
organisation
13. Questions
Does a concern for the psycho-social bring humanity to designing
work?
What other approaches do that?
How do your starting points shape your understanding of STS and
how has that changed through your experience of it?
Interpretations of Socio-Technical Systems
Editor's Notes
Using texts mostly from the Eric Trist’s Anthology on the topic, m y first introduction to work and organization design was through some of the main texts written by social scientists and those working with a systems psychodynamics approach at The Tavistock Institute. Lisl Klein text These pioneers seemed to me to have developed a concern in their work for meaninglessness in manual work and saw the reason in the pre-occupation with the technical aspects of work over the social, resulting in a psychological split between the two.
In a bid to be introduced to a more recent practice deriving from STS, and after encouragement by Frances Abraham a long-time employee of the Institute, I was trained by Vanguard, at a workshop on Process Mapping. Yet my subsequent experiences with process mapping left me confused on the nature of STS, on which view was authentic, and how exactly my introduction to STS, through reading texts written decades ago, influenced my opinion on the topic. For instance, is STS more psycho-dynamically informed than Vanguard methods? Does it even make sense to distinguish between them on this level?
Design against demand . Right first time . Single piece flow . Minimising handovers/steps . Individuals are responsible for their own work . For those of you familiar with Emery’s 9 step approach you can see what the similarities and differences are Step 1 Mapping purpose: Decide upon the purpose of the system from the customer’s perspective. Step 2 Mapping demand: Decide what is the “demand” of the customers. » Value demand : demand, where customers pull value from the organisation » Failure demand : demand caused by a failure to do something or do something right for the customer Step 3 Mapping capability of response: How successful the system is in meeting demand. Step 4: Creating a process map Step 5: Check on other conditions which may affect the process. Step 6: Alter the thinking around the task at a wider level in order to decide upon what changes need to be made to a system.
Abstract writing on a comparison of STS and Process mapping led to showing my ignorance on the topic Preparation for this conference, a seminar by Jean Neumann deepening knowledge And discussing TIHR archives and the development of STS (and the other anthologies) showed me how starting points, even if they are anthologies, can influence strongly what you think of as STS.