{"id":862,"date":"2007-07-29T14:03:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T12:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/technology-innovation-and-organization-for-complex-organizational-settings\/"},"modified":"2007-07-29T14:03:40","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T12:03:40","slug":"technology-innovation-and-organization-for-complex-organizational-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2007\/07\/technology-innovation-and-organization-for-complex-organizational-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology, Innovation and Organization (for complex organizational settings)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irving Wladawsky-Berger<\/a> has an interesting post<\/a> that relates complex organizational systems, innovation management (processes) and the use of social software in the enterprise (you know why I find this interesting<\/a> …):<\/p>\n

[…] the opportunities to leverage the huge advances in technologies, standards and communications to enable us to look at a whole organization – an enterprise, an industry eco-system or an economy – as a holistic, integrated system, linking together processes, information and people<\/strong>. Needless to say, these are incredibly complex systems. The [traditional, established, MK] tools we are using to design, build and manage them today are quite primitive, and they thus require considerable labor-based services.<\/p>\n

[…] Our challenge and opportunity now is to develop similarly sophisticated tools and methodologies to deal with complex organizational systems<\/strong> like those found across industries and economies. Compared to what we\u2019ve done so far, this is hard, – very, very hard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

What we clearly need are more flexible, modular architectures to enable systems to evolve and adapt to rapidly changing, unpredictable market conditions<\/strong>, as well as a whole set of tools to enable people to handle real-time actions and decisions with the kind of quality and productivity we associate with engineering systems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He argues for innovation technologies, like simulation and modeling tools, virtual reality, data mining and rapid prototyping by citing a new book by Dodgson, Gann and Salter (Think, Play, Do: Technology, Innovation, and Organization<\/a>). While this is interesting and I wholeheartedly follow his arguments, e.g. when calling for organizational prototypes, experimenting etc., I also think we need more basic and lightweight stuff for a start. As most organizations don’t have a shortage in technologies or tools, I don’t think it’s a good idea to promote more tools. Rather we should start promoting collaborative principles and methods and introduce tools later on.<\/p>\n

Promoting lightweight social software tools like wikis for innovation management is relatively easy in this context: they facilitate adaptive, collaborative and distributed<\/strong> (innovation) processes, they can support all three key activities he calls for:<\/p>\n

– thinking (idea generation),
\n– playing (designing, experimenting, assessing and selecting),
\n– and doing (prototyping).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and last but not least they offer a space for emergence<\/strong>, i.e. self-organization that is necessary in volatile and changing contexts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Irving Wladawsky-Berger has an interesting post that relates complex organizational systems, innovation management (processes) and the use of social software in the enterprise (you know why I find this interesting …): […] the opportunities to leverage the huge advances in technologies, standards and communications to enable us to look at a whole organization – an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[317,36,405,26,335,481,432,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}