Difference between revisions of "It's the systems, stupid!"

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To see why innovation needs to scale up to systemic innovation, imagine any of the [[systems in which we live and worksystems in which we live and work]] (to turn Bela H. Banathy’s expression into a keyword) as a gigantic machine, comprising people and technology. Imagine yourself and all of us others as parts in that ‘machine’.

A function of a socio-technical system is to take everyone’s work as input, and turn it into socially useful effects. If in spite of the prowess of technology we are just as busy as ever – should we not take a closer look at those systems, and see if they might be wasting our time?

And if our best efforts result in problems rather than solutions – should we not check whether they might be dysfunctional?

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+To see why innovation needs to scale up to systemic innovation, imagine any of the [[systems in which we live and work<em>systems in which we live and work</em>]] (to turn Bela H. Banathy’s expression into a keyword) as a gigantic machine, comprising people and technology. Imagine yourself and all of us others as parts in that ‘machine’.
+A function of a socio-technical system is to take everyone’s work as input, and turn it into socially useful effects. If in spite of the prowess of technology we are just as busy as ever – should we not take a closer look at those systems, and see if they might be wasting our time?
+And if our best efforts result in problems rather than solutions – should we not check whether ''they'' might be dysfunctional?
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