  When discussing future concerns within socio-technical systems in work
contexts, we often find descriptions of missed technology development and
integration. The experience of technology that fails whilst being integrated is
often rooted in dysfunctional epistemological approaches within the research
and development process. Thus, ultimately leading to sustainable
technology-distrust in work contexts. This is true for organisations which
integrate new technologies and for organisations that invent them.
Organisations in which we find failed technology development and integrations
are in their very nature social systems. Nowadays, those complex social systems
act within an even more complex environment. This urges for new anticipation
methods for technology development and integration. Gathering of and dealing
with complex information in the described context is what we call Anticipation
Next. This explorative work uses existing literature from the adjoining
research fields of system theory, organizational theory, and socio-technical
research to combine various concepts. We end with suggesting a conceptual
framework that is supposed to be used in very early stages of technology
development and integration for and in work contexts.
