Network-Centric Organizations (slides:) Steve Abrams Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Informatics Advisor: Gloria Mark Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine

Abstract

Much organizational work is increasingly distributed and, as such, is increasingly mediated by technology systems, but organizations have generally not taken advantage of such mediated work activities as a resource to inform future work. Organizations often capture information about their work, but this information is primarily oriented to work products (not activities to produce them) and is utilized for accounting purposes. Network-centric organizations deploy technological and organizational systems to conduct – and to capture details of – their work via mediating technologies. This talk briefly will describe a network-centric organization’s capture of detailed information about its work activities and how such information could be utilized to extend its own social networking services into becoming "collaborative networking" services.

 

Bio

Steve is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Interactive and Collaborative Technologies program at UCI. He brought more than a decade of professional experience as an IT and network systems engineer and developer to his graduate student career. At UCI, he has focused his studies on the use of technology in an organizational context, with particular regard for qualitative/quantitative analysis of distributed work, understanding organizational theory, and conducting socio-organizational network analyses. He is currently “on the market” and looking for organizational research positions, with a particular interest in opportunities to extend his research to multinational and multicultural environments.