antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor 4:05 am on February 20, 2023  

Trond Hjorteland introductions to Socio-Technical Systems Theory

My attention was drawn by this tweet:

Wonder what makes a Search Conference so different from the seemingly similar Future Search? The latter claims to extend the former, but have left out core parts to make it suit a terrible individualiatic and non-systemic thinking. Here’s a comparison by M Emery.#OpenSystems

Trond Hjorteland on Twitter: “Wonder what makes a Search Conference so different from the seemingly similar Future Search? The latter claims to extend the former, but have left out core parts to make it suit a terrible individualiatic and non-systemic thinking. Here’s a comparison by M Emery. #OpenSystems https://t.co/QAKiJrJPx9” / Twitter

It was only after enquiring with Trond about the technical language that I realised what an advocate for STS he has been (along of course with Merrelyn Emery herself), particularly in the IT/Agile space.

See

Participative Design for Participative Democracy

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/participative-design-democracy-trond-hjorteland/

Sociotechnical Systems Design for the “Digital Coal Mines”*

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sociotechnical-systems-design-digital-coal-mines-trond-hjorteland/

Autonomy across the enterprise

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/autonomy-across-enterprise-trond-hjorteland/

(all on LinkedIn – and many other articles)

Also the evolving six important psychological criteria for job satisfaction, on Twitter