About me
Who are you?
I'm an IT architect and open sociotechnical systems practitioner with many years of experience working with large, complex, and business-critical systems in industries like telecom, media, TV, and the public sector. My main interests are service-orientation, domain-driven design, event-driven architectures, and open sociotechnical systems. His mantra: Great solutions emerge from collaborative sense-making and design.
What do you do for a living?
I mostly do enterprise-level architecture and facilitation at the moment, but aim to work more on organizational design and development applying sociotechnical systems design principles and techniques.
What are you going to talk about at FlowCon?
My talk is going to explore the innate world views we all carry around with us and show how different they can be and what impact that will have on our collaboration and designs. Being aware of these will help you understand their people better and maybe even enable you to counteract many of the dysfunctions that we see daily at work.
What are you the proudest of?
My proudest moment most recently was, apart from getting my to wonderful kids, being headhunted for my recently acquired knowledge of sociotechnical systems from social sciences and being able to spread the word about one strand of this field, Open Systems Theory, to the IT industry.
What speaker and/or topic would you like to see at FlowCon?
Anything that covers the sociotechnical space, how we better can design systems and organisations that optimize for both.
If you were an art piece, which one would it be?
Anything by Caravaggio.
What's your favorite band, artist or song?
Massive fan of Sisters of Mercy.
Sum up your session or workshop in only 1 sentence
To collaborate and codesign better we need to understand other peoples world views and how they compare and contrast with ours.
What are the 3 top takeaways from your session or workshop?
You need to understand at least the four different world views, seeing how they differ, and understand the issue of mixing them.
