Tuesday 23 February 2010

Soziotechnische Massnahmen?

Soziotechnische Massnahmen is an (un-)word I've discovered somewhere in a large company I used to work for. Google translates it from German to English as Socio-technical measures. At first, I figured it was just a fancy way of saying people training but it turns out to be quite a science involving people and technology to be more efficient. Check out the Wikipedia article. It's actually quite interesting, but unfortunately often doomed in large companies unless people are motivated enough to actually pull it through.

While I have my own thoughts on this and might even blog about them at some point, this is not about socio-technical measures at all (sorry). I've primarily set up this blog to write about technical bits and pieces, which was my original understanding of the topic. I'm also moving to Asia in a couple of weeks so that should lighten up things.