Control of Technologies & Other Connumdrums.
Re-Invention & Mission Creep
- Lessig's Code: achitecture codifies values
- Cig lighter power for my iPod, adaptation and purpose creep
- Tight Control: no re-invention, no adaptibility
- Loose Control: easier re-invention but less control
Diffusion of Innovations
- S Curve of innovation (early to late adaptors)
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Conundrum of Control
- zero control: no ID or benefit
- Total control: no flexibility and lack of energy
Organizational Innovation
- Loose systems tend to ID innovations (adaptability)
- Tight systems make sharing acorss systems easiers (adaptation)
Nouns and Verbs
- Organizing more important than Organization
- Managing more important than Management
- New view of organization as a flow problems and solution, a flow of infomoration,
- "The picture of an organization that emerges from these ideas is that of a stream of problems, solutions, and people tied together by choices. What happens over time is that choices mobilize reasons and justifications, which people then use to make elements in the stream more orderly. Organizing states with a set of choices and streams. When the streams converge, people pay attention and construct explanations for the convergence" (Weick, 2001, p. 28)
Sencemaking
- Bounded Rationality: We only see part of picture, can't really see cause and effect
- Tell ourselves stories based on culture and vision, common-shared visions of reality
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