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Social Complexity and the Intranet
Richard Hare
Organisational Hierarchy
Organisational Network
“Wirearchy”
“...a dynamic two-way flow of power and authority based on knowledge, trust, credibility and a focus on results, enabled by interconnected people and technology...” - John Husband
Exercise
“There are profound implications for the design of Intranets once it has been recognized that human systems are
COMPLEX rather than COMPLICATED”
- Dave Snowden
By Snowded (Own creation, own work)
[CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Sensemaking: Cynefin
Managing complexity
1. Distributed cognition- decisions made by diverse networks
2. Finely grained objects- learning from narrative fragments
3. Disintermediation- decision makers see real data
“...partial constraints, co-evolution of constraint with agent behaviour...”
http://cognitive-edge.com/blog/entry/3299/the-necessity-of-partial-constraint/
Intranets and complexity
1. On-line communities
2. Blogs/blogging/blogspheres
3. Enterprise Social Networks
4. Tagging and folksonomy
5. Rating vs. liking
6. “Gamification”
References
“Here Comes Everybody” - Clay Shirky
“The Intranet as a Complex Ecology” - Dave Snowden
“Multi-Ontology Sensemaking - A New Simplicity in Decision Making”- Dave Snowden
www.wirearchy.com - John Husband
www.gapingvoid.com - Hugh MacLeod
Coursera: Gamification – Prof. Kevin Werbach