Panels

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

A SECOND STEP BACK FOR MAKING SENSE OF INTERVENTIONS, MIRRORS AND WINDOWS FOR
PARTNERING, SOCIAL PRACTICE DESIGN TO FACILITATE CHANGE

Panel Organised by Gianni Jacucci and Mike Martin

ABSTRACT
We propose to take Bourdieu's second step back to reflect on the meaning of
intervention, leadership, purpose and direction in the context of
transformational change, and to link it to the recent proposal of social
practice design (G.Jacucci) in a congruent approach to promote and facilitate
successful organizational change.
The approach leverages on literature which takes the change paradigm itself as
subject, addressing the challenge of transformation and the ways that it can be
nurtured. Here, discussion of intervention take on concepts and terminology of
therapy and notions of sense making and languaging indicating second order
processes.
The panel will be structured around two case studies: a) the development of a
Common Assessment Framework between Heath, Social Care and Education which
combines transformation of practice, the design and deployment of new shared
information systems and processes and changes in the allocations of roles and
responsibility in the delivery of care; and, b) the deployment of model-based
enterprise systems to support engineering cooperation in distributed global
manufacturing
Each panel member will comment on the two case studies from a different
disciplinary perspective in a moderated discussion encouraging wider
participation. This will be captured for subsequent publication.

Panelists: Gianni Jacucci, Mike Martin, Ina Wagner, David Avison, Jeremy Rose.