Research focus

One question moves through every project I run: how do digital artefacts shape coordination, learning, and governance? I asked it in my dissertation at Aarhus and have kept asking it since. Each new study moved the question to a different setting or a different level of analysis.

Junior professionals negotiating generative AI. Municipalities building community sharing ecosystems. Management discourse rehearsing futures for AI before the technology has settled. The same question, asked at different scales.

Some of the work watches what digital artefacts do once they are inside an organization. At the level of individual professionals, generative AI rearranges what early-career consultants learn and what they only appear to learn. At the level of municipalities, sharing initiatives form and re-form under resource constraint, leaving behind sacrificial blueprints and improvised structures. At the field level, management discourse builds, abandons, and rebuilds visions of AI faster than the technologies themselves change.

The three levels are one phenomenon at three magnifications.

Other work builds the artefacts I want to think with. ArchiTrek is a teaching tool for enterprise architecture: students walk the relationship paths in ArchiMate instead of memorising them. A second project asks how to redraw manufacturing ecosystems as service platforms, and uses simulation to test those designs before they exist.

Building and observing are the same activity at different speeds.

My training is half Nordic qualitative IS and half continental design science. The Nordic tradition supplies the patience to watch a phenomenon for years, the categories of process theory, the institutional reading of technology. The continental tradition supplies formal models, design science methodology, the structural eye that enterprise architecture trains. Most of my projects need both.

In current interdisciplinary work I sit between simulation specialists and qualitative researchers, translating one language into the other.

I work with municipalities, professional service firms, and manufacturing partners rather than at a distance from them. The collaborations supply the empirical material and also shape the questions I think to ask.

The point is to stay close to ongoing change rather than wait for it to finish.