S3LF: a Socio-Technical System for Self-Determinant Governance in Collaborative Organizations

RIBAS HORTAL, ALEXANDRE; BROMBERG, FACUNDO; DINAMARCA, AGUSTINA

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Conferencia; 23RD INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC MANAGEMENT NETWORK (IPMN) CONFERENCE; 2019

ESSCA School of Management & International Public Management Network

This work presents S3LF, a socio-technical system in the form of a mobile application forfacilitating a ​ digital self-determinant governance experience in collaborative organizations. Itconsists of a technologically mediated adaptation of the decision making framework Sociocracy 3.0a.k.a S3, turning it into an asynchronous and remote process with a facilitation mediated through theuser experience (UX) and interaction design. S3LF enables digital and distributed organizationssuch as Collaborative Networked Organizations (CNOs) to adopt self-determinant governancemethodologies such as S3, and promises a faster onboarding into self-determinant governance andhigher throughput of self-determinant decision making. Furthermore, we introduce in S3LF aself-diagnosis module that reports the level of self-determination perceived by each decision makerof the group for each decision made, over different contextual situations; whose analysis has thepotential to allow organizations to self-correct dominant situations.