Learning for Sustainable Organisational Interoperability

In contrast to non-interoperable and fully-interoperable systems,interoperable systems have qualities that the former can not fulfil. A system of loosely coupled and interoperable parts is more resilient and sustainable than a system of fully integrated parts since a failure in one part halts the integrated system. In a system where its parts are non-interoperable, the individual parts do not work together, and the full desired functionality is not available. For organisations, which are in a constant flux, support is required to maintain interoperability and keep the organisations’ parts from falling towards the above extreme sides. The same is true for organisations as part of an ecosystem, an economic system and a social system to maintain resilience and sustainability. In this paper we derive requirements and conceptualise a multi- faced learning environment to support organisations to keep pace with the permanent changes in their environments, helping to reach a level of sustainability that allows organisations to survive in their environment on the long run.