Sir Tim’s Web Science initiative has caught my interest – http://redcatco.com/blog/technology/tim-berners-lee-the-innovation-edge/ – but I definitely want to learn from occupational psychology and work organisation.

Excited about what the Smart Work Company is doing with Moodle – taking learning on-line is going to me more and more important with the increasing numbers of remote workers.

Great post.

You said, “The area of science that I am most interested in doesn’t really exist yet, but it will, because it must. How does all of this technology change the way that we work? How can we build companies that make better use of technology, and technology that makes better use of people?”

Work Organisation as a knowledge discipline is not is a unified area of science: it cannot be because it is cross disciplinary, taking in social psychology, systems thinking, complexity, strategic HR, strategic operations etc

But there is a huge existing body of practical knowledge. See http://www.ukwon.net. I have been part of this network for the past 8 years, and was project manager for a UK WON 26 partner, EU-funded research project on new ways of working. The network itself has strong links with EU work organisation practitioners, particularly in Norway, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands, and Germany.

I met Dr Marie Puybaraud, my partner in crime at the Global Mobility Network, while we were both presenting results from research projects at a conference in Rome on New Forms of Organganisational Innovation.

Promoting new forms of working, through action learning, is what my Smart Work Company is all about. I am modifying my Moodle Smart Work Learning Place as we speak.

Looking forward to catching up with you.