ADM 6279 Socio-Technical Change

1.5 units
Administration
Telfer School of Management
This course explores the structural-, cultural- and process-based organizational change management challenges facing business strategists during new technology implementation initiatives. Toward this, the course draws upon management frameworks, support tools and best practices for the joint optimization of technology and social subsystems within organizations. Adopting a complex adaptive system viewpoint of the organization, the course will highlight issues of technological and social embeddedness, and illustrate the use of configuration modeling and analysis tools for enterprise engineering and strategy models to facilitate change sustainability and continuity.

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Lecture

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Winter

Organized

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Learned a Lot

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Recommend

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Workload

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Fair Assessments

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