Lecture 10
This week we are fortunate to be joined by three guest speakers covering a range of expertise and experience in organisational settings in Australia and Asia. Students are asked to attend in person (Lecture Theatre 3 Engineering Block) or via the livestream for this lecture. A short lecture covering OI complexity and systems will follow the guest lecturer presentations as time allows.

Our speakers are:

Dr Lisa Kruesi - Research Fellow Monash University. Lisa has an extensive career as a biomedical library executive, having worked at three major research universities in Australia and the CSIRO. Her current research is looking at digital information and the construction industry in Victoria, including understanding the opportunities for digital twin technologies for the built environment.

Mr Anthony Phuc Le - PhD candidate Monash University. Anthony will speak about his current research in digital health with Ambulance Victoria and his former role as COO for a start up eye care company in Vietnam. Anthony is a specialist in enterprise architecture and will compare how models and standards for information systems implementation relate to wider OI considerations.

Mr. M Poobalan - PhD candidate Monash University, Malaysia. Mr. Masilamani has worked with the Malaysian civil service since 2003, his last position being Principal Assistant Director in the Digital Government Division of Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU), which is under the Prime Minister's Department. His research focuses on big data analytics maturity assessment in Malaysian public sector agencies.


Lisa also kindly provided some additional notes based on a question about examples of digital twin technology. Please see below:

Australia’s NSW to build A$40m digital twin
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252510492/Australias-NSW-to-build-A40m-digital-twin 
Vicmap 3D Buildings is a collection of the best available building models across Victoria, to create a seamless 2D and 3D representation of the built environment for easy visualisation in the Digital Twin Victoria platform. https://www.land.vic.gov.au/maps-and-spatial/digital-twin-victoria 
One example is the use of digital twins and drones by Komatsu, a Japanese construction manufacturer, to conduct site surveys. Topographic data of the site is collected with a drone and built into a three-dimensional digital twin. The use of these technologies reduced the time for surveying work which previously took four days to complete, to just 20 minutes. From:
Peter Evans-Greenwood, Robert Hillard, Peter Williams (2019), 'Digitalizing the construction industry', Deloitte Access Economics, https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/digital-transformation/digitizing-the-construction-industry.html
https://digitaltwinhub.co.uk/  -- has 32 digital twins registered. The DT Hub will connect you with other experts and innovators and provide the opportunity to help shape the future of the built environment in the UK.  It is necessary to register to access the details.
Week 10 Systems and Complexity in OI Guest Presenters Dr Lisa Kruesi and Mr Anthony Le 2023File 10.4MB PDF document
Week 10 Systems and Complexity Guest Presenter Digital Transformation Malaysia Public SectorFile 2.8MB PDF document
Tutorial Resources
You should continue to be working on the materials provided in Week 9.

Ensure you share your Case Study Workbook with your tutor

 Weeks 9 - 10 Tutorial Sem 1 2023File 5.8MB PDF document
Readings
Davenport and Sesari (2020). What Is a Minimum Viable AI Product? MIT Sloan Management Review. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/what-is-a-minimum-viable-ai-product/ 

Lawler, E.E. and Worley, C.G. (2006). Designing organizations that are built to change. MIT Sloan Management Review, 48(1), 19-23.

Assignment 2:
Reflective posts and discussion thread Week 10
This is the final forum is for you to post your comments, ideas or thinking about this week's topics and the week's prompt questions.  

You will be able to post and respond until Friday 26 May 5pm.

Please note that you will also need to submit your 

final Portfolio which includes at least 5 posts and 5 responses AND
your Reflection on OI of between 300 - 500 words (ideally closer to 500 words)

by Friday 26 May at 11:55pm 
This week's prompts: Complex systems - organisational case presentations from Australia and Asia

This week's lecture provided a view of three different perspectives of organisation by the guest lecturers.

For your final post and response please reflect on your understanding of the OI framework and/or any of the models we have covered in the unit by drawing on examples from at least one of the guest presenters' cases given in the lecture. Please ensure you refer to the lectures as delivered here:


https://echo360.net.au/lesson/G_44222177-fdab-4374-9ecc-76f4540a17c0_628a53c5-f9f6-468f-aa47-f875638b0fbc_2023-05-10T15:58:00.000_2023-05-10T17:53:00.000/classroom#sortDirection=desc

Your post and response should consider how complex systems / systems theory can be applied to support an understanding of the complex nature of the case/s presented. 

Your post and response should demonstrate an insight through reading the tutorial papers for Week 10 and drawing on further research into the case/s as presented.

For example, some of the complex systems models which we present in Weeks 10 and 11, such as those considered by Boone and Snowden (2007) and Stafford-Beer's Viable Systems Model, are finding new resonance with those looking at how AI 'behaves' as part of complex technological development. This has led to the view of Viable Systems being adopted to consider new applications, such as that noted by Davenport and Sesari (2020) What Is a Minimum Viable AI Product? MIT Sloan Management Review. (Image below is from this article).

Some prompts to consider.

How do the cases presented relate to your case study organisation and your current understanding of OI?
How do the timelines of organisational change presented illustrate a transition to services?
How does this work compare with earlier considerations of information politics? Has AI changed this concept of information politics?