In this digital age, we are immersed in a wave of 5th or 6th generation technologies that threaten to overwhelm our 1st or 2nd generation social systems. Stu Winby and Sue Mohrman propose a response to this challenge in their recently published Journal of Applied Behavioral Science article on “Digital Sociotechnical System Design”. Based on a real case example in health care, they outline how to design digital technology AND organization as an integrated system, with multiple stakeholders participating at a new ecosystem level. This is the essence of what we in the STS Roundtable refer to as SMART organization design.
Stu Winby is a thought leader in strateg
y innovation, organization design and innovation, and founder of SPRING Network, AND a long-standing member of the STS Roundtable. Sue Mohrman is a Professor and Senior Research Scientist in the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Sue’s Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) will be a Co-Sponsor with the STS Roundtable of the 2019 Los Angeles meeting of the Global Network for SMART Organization Design.
We in the STS Roundtable are truly indebted to Sue and Stu for their invaluable contributions to us as an active learning community of young and older generation organization designers. Read and enjoy this seminal article on “Digital Sociotechnical System Design”, and come join us!
This article, Digital Sociotechnical System Design by Winby&Mohrman, is also saved in our Research page.
