Importance of socio-technical perspective in research and practice A socio-technical perspective sees an organization as an emergent whole of multiple systems view - in this perspective a multiplicity of emergent combinations of what may appear as two systems is a key feature - a social system and a technical system as one indivisible whole. The real pattern of behaviour in the organization is determined by the interaction of two. While analysing management problems of getting things done by people, adequate consideration should be given to technology as well as informal and formal interactions of people. Despite that a socio-technical perspective has been around for over a half century, it is often forgotten in the IS discourse today. Consequently, many “new approaches” appear to reflect on IS systems problems, such as modern IT systems poorly adjusted to the external or/and internal environment (e.g. market, organizational culture) of organizations in which they are (to be) deployed. We strongly believe that it is high time the social-technical perspective took its proper place in IS research, practice and teaching.
per we discuss the potential to Educate Students to Gamified Design Thinking. With the fourth paper we continue with a more technical concern and discuss Hyper Contextual Security Knowledge Management for Open Source Software. In the fifth and last paper of the session we explore the potential with Evaluating Socio-Technical Systems with Heuristics – a Feasible Approach?
The last session of the workshop is discussing how to conduct research and teaching in the socio-technical domain. It is designed to capture both the breadth and depth of socio-technical perspective. All and all, these second workshop proceedings have hopefully set a good broad base for discussion and debate on the strength and weakness of a socio-technical perspective in the information systems research and teaching domain.
Acknowledgements The organizers are grateful to the members of Program Committee for their excellent work of reviewing submitted papers in short time. We are also thankful to Easy-Chair for providing us with a tool to manage the workshop free of charge. Weare also much obliged to the CAISE'16 organizers for their support in organizing the second STPIS workshop.
Peter Bednar University of Portsmouth Ilia Bider Stockholm University/IbisSoft Federico Cabitza Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Umberto Fiaccadori Informatics at Lund University John Paul Kawalek University of Sheffield
Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stewart Kowalski Stockholm University
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Gil Regev Switzerland Moufida Sadok Iset'Com Tunis Paolo Spagnoletti LUISS "Guido Carli" Lars Taxén Linköping University David Wastell Nottingham University Christine Welch Portsmouth Business School