NOTE: This article is a sort of “blast from the past”. It was originally published in Knowledge: Creation…
The language of socio-technical systems and socio-technical design has proved over the years to be one of the…
“Socio-techtonics” is a principle I coined many years ago by combining “socio-technical” with “tectonic“. Perhaps as a result of moving to California back in the 80s, I began to notice how organizational stresses can behave a lot like earthquakes, building slowly usually without visible…