Seminarier 18 november: Joeri van Laere om Socio-materialty samt om krisövningar
2015-11-18Joeri van Laere från Högskolan i Skövde gästade informatik denna onsdag och höll två seminarier inom HumanITs seminarieserie. VIdeoupptagningar finns från båda presentationerna.
14:15-15:00
Det första seminariet har temat "Socio-technology, socio-materiality: är vi fortfarande helt vilse?" och redovisar Joeri’s pågående sökande efter konkreta design-ledtrådar i arbete från Ciborra, Orlikowski, Weick, Argyris, Quinn med mera. (Kan hållas på engelska om de närvarande så önskar.)
15:15-16:00
Det andra seminairet är på temat: "Vad är bra krisövning? – återkommande utmaningar och kloka knep baserat på över 100 genomförde övningar" och ansluter till Centrum för HumanITs och Centrum för Klimat & Säkerhets gemensamma ansträngningar att höja krisberedskapen i organisationer genom att öka övningsverksamheten med hjälp av digitala verktyg.
Plats: Informatiks fikarum 1A349
Socio-technology and Sociomateriality – does 1+1 make 3 or are we still lost?
IS research aims at tackling questions related to how IT (technical systems) can support organizations (social systems). Researchers like Claudio Ciborra and Jonathan Grudin have (amongst many others) discussed the enormous challenges of developing theories that address both social and technological issues in this design problem in depth. Or should we say, that address socio-technical design issues? Is a socio-technical system something different than “interaction between technology and organization”? Does 1+1 make something different than 2, is it 3? Re-reading Orlikowski’s work from the early 1990s (a structuration perspective) and her recent contributions on socio-materiality it appeared to me: Did we come any further in this discussion during those 20 years, or is the message the same? What is a socio-technical system anyway? What consequences would an innovative answer on that question have for socio-technical systems designers in our society (and where do they work)? An attempt is done to create a new answer by mixing insights from Weick, Orlikowski, Ciborra, Argyris, Quinn and Heidegger and see what an interaction of their contributions leads to. This presentation is based on work in progress and does thus contain provocative questions and preliminary answers, but no final conclusions. Be prepared to enter the debate.
Videofilm av presentationen. (In Swedish)
What is good crisis training – lessons from over 100 crisis management trainings in Swedish municipalities
Good crisis training is a series of education moments and a variety of different trainings that together evoke a longitudinal learning process. A good training aims at learning and not at grading/judging. A good training is challenging, but not so difficult that the trainees fail. A good training addresses the complexities of internal and external information sharing and information management, and does not delimit itself to only decision making. In a good training facilitators are not just observing, but even actively coaching participants: by giving feedback during the training failures are corrected and “good” information management and decision making is trained. These and other interesting is insight will be shared thorough vivid examples and summarized in an easy to grasp take-away checklist. Our insights are grounded in observations during a longitudinal study between 2006 and 2015.
Videofilm av presentationen. (In Swedish)
Joeri van Laere is an Assistant Professor at University of Skövde, Sweden. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Joeri performs research at the interface of organisation science, communication science and information systems. His research interests include decision support, crisis management, situation awareness, gaming-simulation, knowledge management, organizational change and distributed work. He has published at several international conferences such as ECIS, HICSS, and ISCRAM, and in journals including the European Journal of Information systems, the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, the Journal of Information Fusion and the Journal of Production, Planning and Control.