Subject:
Reminder and next lecture details!
Date:
Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:39:06 +0000
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Update - please pass on/publish and attend(!) and don't forget to tell
your colleagues/students too. Slides from past lectures available on
http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese.
If you are interested in sociotechnical matters why not join our
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Feb 21st 2001 Prof Chris Clegg - Institute of Work Psychology
Sheffield University
e-Business: boom or gloom?
No more bets
In this talk we offer some propositions and predictions about the future
conduct of e-business. We argue that successful e-business activity
will require the effective management of certain core 'building
blocks'. These are concerned with new technology, supply chain
relationships, business processes and empowered employees. We argue
that our track record in the UK is not good in these areas, in large
part because many organisations lack a systemic understanding of these
issues and the relationships between them. We predict that such
systemic understanding will get harder for organisations (as systems get
more complex and tightly coupled) and that the majority of e-business
ventures, in the short to medium term, will fail to meet their
objectives.
Mar 14th 2001 Richard Holti - Director,
Programme for Organisational Change and Technological Innovation,
The Tavistock Institute
Redesigning the supply chain for providing the built environment
This talk will first of all outline a major four year programme of
action research, jointly sponsored by industry and government, to
develop a more integrated way of working within the supply chains of the
construction industry. Providing a building usually requires a
temporary work system which brings together users, financiers,
designers, constructors and suppliers of materials and components.
Established models for achieving this are fraught with adversarial
relationships and a number of forms of waste. The model developed and
piloted on two live construction projects involved re-inventing the
system for governing inter-organiastional relationships within a project
on a more collaborative model. This involved drawing boundaries around
all those parties involved in designing, developing and constructing a
significant sub-system of the whole building.
In addition to highlighting the range of design, construction and
commercial practices implicated in implementing the new
inter-organisational model, the talk will explore implications for
various forms of information systems in supporting for the design and
construction processes.
April 4th 2001 Chris Atkinson Brunel University
(Soft interventions for integrated development - title to be confirmed)
To come in Autumn 2001:
Tony Cornford (Implementation issues - title to be confirmed)
Venue: Westminster Business School, Marylebone Road (opp. Baker Street
tube)
Lecture Theatre 1 - Luxborough Block
Time: 6pm - 7.30pm
Cost: Free. All welcome!
Further details email Elayne Coakes - [log in to unmask]
If you are interested in reading about sociotechnical thinking today
then why not look at: The New Sociotech : Graffiti on the Long Wall,
Springer-Verlag 2000
Eds Coakes E, Willis D and Lloyd-Jones R
More details on:
http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/graffiti_on_the_long_wall.htm
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