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references g-h
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coordination system
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repetitive control
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words in natural languages
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names as abbreviations for descriptions
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events
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what is truth
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responsibility
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abstraction
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state
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topology
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organizations
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event time
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commitment as a system
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information
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coordinated processes
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management
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rules
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World-Wide Web
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machine model
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organizations as systems

Reference

Holt, A.W., Organized activity and its support by computer, Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997. Google

Quotations
10 ;;Quote: a social machine occurs when people perform repeatable actions with repeatable results that can fail to meet standards
19 ;;Quote: organized activity is performed in terms of clearly understood, repeatable units; e.g., 3/4" flat-head, pipette, McDonald's
20 ;;Quote: every UNIT of a community has a well-known CRITERION for identifying REALIZATIONS of the UNIT
30 ;;Quote: an ACTION depends on its ORGANIZATIONAL and PERSONAL context; e.g., peeling potatoes at work differs from the same action at home
32 ;;Quote: every ACTION is driven by PERSONAL and ORGANIZATIONAL INTERESTS; make organized activity efficient by aligning INTERESTS
34 ;;Quote: the right answer may be incorrect; e.g., a random guess, took too long, not double checked
34+;;Quote: a stopped clock is always wrong even though the time is correct twice a day
36 ;;Quote: a person takes responsibility, not a machine; e.g., if a pipe bursts while folding paper, a person will do something about the emergency
37 ;;Quote: to assume RESPONSIBILITY is to take an ORGANIZATIONAL INTEREST in the ACTIONS performed by the ACTOR; must be a PERSON
57 ;;Quote: the greater the INTERESTS of an ORGANIZATION the sharper the boundaries
57+;;Quote: navigators distinguish open water and a harbor but not being in between the two; it does not matter
103 ;;Quote: every time you take on anything, it requires action within a finite interval of time; like spinning plates in a circus act
104 ;;Quote: Igo is a system for managing responsibilities, keeping a person coordinated with himself
104 ;;Quote: an Igo UNIT is a center; a virtual place for fulfilling one of your activity commitments
119 ;;Quote: the purpose of information is making decisions between possible actions
158 ;;Quote: coordination is the putting together of many ACTIONS into organized activities
158 ;;Quote: informal coordination is more efficient and flexible than formal coordination; more dependent on shared understandings
158 ;;Quote: coordination environments address formal coordination by rules
158+;;Quote: the Internet fails to help people institute and follow rules; could interconnect through flexible, world-wide, organized activities
164 ;;Quote: model a computer as a human organization which operates by strictly defined rules
173 ;;Quote: INFORMATION is relative to organized activity; information depends on the human organization that uses it


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