Organizations as Enacted Systems: Learning, Knowing and Change
As taught in: Fall 2002
Two arrows in a circle, representing communication. (Image courtesy of Wanda Orlikowski.)
Instructors:
Prof. Peter Senge
Prof. Wanda Orlikowski
MIT Course Number:
15.963
Level:
Graduate
Course Description
The course is structured around a core of fundamental concepts concerning how we view organizations, and the application of these concepts to basic domains of action crucial for contemporary businesses: sensemaking, learning, knowing, and change. We view organizations as enacted systems, wherein humans are continually shaping the structures that influence their action in turn. In other words, we create the systems that then create us.
