Opfølgning på vejledningsmøde med Bo idag. Næste møde er 14. februar 2005.

Vi diskuterede kort:

Tushman & Nadler og deres antagelse om, at en organisation kan ses som bestående af en mændge af grupper eller afdelinger ("subunits"). Design af subunits, arbejdsfordeling, afhængigheder, koordination mv.

MB-rapporten giver et eksempel på afvejning mellem at designe efter funktion eller proces. Procesorienteret design medfører fokus på koordination i organisationen?

Overvej at besvare/perskeptivere/forklare at opfatte organisationen som informationssystem <-> informationssystemet som organisation. Spørg evt. P. Klaas om litteraturreferencer.

Teknologisynet i contingency teori. Bør defineres, se evt. Perell for typologi.

Jeg forbereder til næste vejledningsmøde en kort præsentation af IT-systemer som organisationer.

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Opfølgning på mit første vejledningsmøde med Bo idag. Næste møde er 31. januar 2005.

• Kurser
• Tilstræb at kurser skydes af i løbet af første år.
• Kandidatkurser tæller med halve ECTS points.
• Evt. bogkøb via Bodil.
• Fordel på halvt ORG og halvt IT/SWA kurser.
• Se på CASOS - sommerkursus.
• Muslingekursus næste forår i Brussels - se EIASM's website.
• EIASM European Doctoral Summer School in Technology Management.
• CASE-kursus på Sandbjerg?
• Overvejelser
• Medvejledning på plads ASAP.
• Læs MB rapport - evt. via Tim.
• Hvad vil jeg ændre på?
• Hvad skal designet afhjælpe?
• Duelighedskriterium - hypoteser -> Evalueringskriterier
• Træf valg om at se ORG som informationssystem.
• Miles & Snow: Hvad skal forskellige typer opnå?
• Kvaliteter i SWA -> Systembegreb defineres.
• ORG som rød tråd - SWA som "det nye":
• Informationsbehandling:
• ORG som informationssystem
• IT-sys som informationssystem
• ORG typer
• Design-typologier
• Litteratur
• Thompson (1967): "Organizations in Action: Social Science Bases of Administrative Theory"

• Galbraith (1973): "Designing complex organizations".
• Tushman & Nadler (1978) - AMR *
• Div. G.P. Huber (80 - 00) - Man. Sci./ORG. Sci.
• Div. Deft/lengel (80 - 00) - Man. Sci./ORG. Sci.
• Ungson (80 - 00) - ASQ
• J.P. Walsh (80 - 00) - ASQ, ORG. Sci.

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This is simply just not fair: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs377a/

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As an employee of Knowledge Lab, I attended the SUMMIT05 conference on wednesday and thursday this week. On thursday, I participated in a very interesting workshop on "Context sensitivity and Tagging". The workshop was led by Professor Kaj Grønbæk, who presented various context aware technology projects taking place at the InteractiveSpaces research center. Representatives from BLIP Systems and Cordura A/S presented solutions and technologies based on Bluetooth and RFID chips. RFID Journal carries an article that describes one of the projects presented by Cordura.
The workshop also introduced a Danish website - RFID Vidensbank - that attemps to collect and disperse information about RFID technologies.

Impressions from the workshop: There are several manufactures of RFID chips in the market, but each manufacturer has chosen to design their chips to respond at proprietary frequencies (one manufacturer uses a frequency within the interval used for european cellular networks). No standards, so *everybody* wait and see how Walmart's RFID project turns out and whether Walmart's size will establish a defacto standard. The representative from Cordura A/S told us that Cordura experienced substantial interest in RFID technologies from businesses. Among other projects, Cordura has been assigned the task of integrating tagging technology into the Danfoss Universe park.

There are currently several Danish RFID initiatives in progress: The InteractiveSpaces research center mentioned above is part of the ISIS Katrinebjerg compentence center (with which RFID Vidensbank is also affiliated); ITEK has recently hosted a conference on RFID for the food sector; The Danish Technological Institute is in the process of establishing a RFID test center for the packaging and transport industry (Teknologisk Institut has released a short initial report, which re-states some of the issues mentioned above).

It would seem natural that various RFID efforts should be coordinated within a small country such as Denmark. Hopefully, venues such as RFID Vidensbank will enable this coordination and knowledge sharing. I personally believe that coordination between initiatives is crucial due to the fact that the "killer" benefit of RFID is to be found by considering the life cycles of tagged artifacts. The Cordura project involving museum artifacts (see above) is tightly focused on using the technology to enhance the experience of the museum guest. In order to represent an appealing business case, this scenario should be expanded to include inventory and tracking (since museum artifacts are moved between storage and exhibition); transport (artifacts move between different museums); theft prevention and probably also "life cycle monitoring" in general (museum artifacts are resold, but there are issues of authentication and public/community interest). Considering the life cycle of tagged artifacts not only provides additional arguments in favour of buying into the technology - it facilitates collaboration between different enterprises within a value chain. Such collaboration provides a strengthened business case and disperses the cost of introducing the technology among the participating enterprises.

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"Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follet - author of "Eye of the Needle", an all time favourite and also a most agreeable movie.

"Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design", Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores. A most fascinating book - more to come…

I have also read Peter Øvig Knudsens book about Ib Birkedal Hansen. Birkedal was recruited as an informant by Gestapo, when working in Hamburg between 1940 and 1942. In 1943 Birkedal returns to Denmark to work for Gestapo as an interpreter, but he quickly advances to become the leader of a unit under department IV2a. As such, Birkedal instigates a reign of terror, using agent provocateurs, torture of both men and women, reciprocal bombings and murder to fight the Danish resistance. In the last days of the war, Birkedal flees for Germany but is caught by allied forces two years later. The subsequent investigation and trial took nearly three years, during which Birkedal was commited to various mental institutions and subject to both narcotic and electro chok treatments. Birkedal ended his days as the last Danish person to be sentenced to death: He was shot by a firing squad on July 20th., 1950.
In his book, Øvig focuses on Birkedals complex personality - the female agent provocateurs used by Birkedal in sting operations - and the relationships between Birkedal and these women. A review and summary can be found here.

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Cygnet Bluetooth Keyboard can be purchased from Elite Electronics, UK.

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Dan Brown: "Angels and Demons", Neal Stephenson: "Cryptonomicon", Peter C. Kjærsgaard: "Wittgenstein og videnskaberne" (Excerpt provided by publisher; reviews: Weekendavisen, Politiken, Information). Donald Norman: "Emotional Design" and "Microserfs" by Douglas Coupland.

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