Tor Olav Grøtan
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Name: |
Tor Olav Grøtan |
| Position: |
PhD student within RAMS |
| Phone: |
+47 92039327 |
| Fax: |
+47 735 97117 |
| Email: |
tor.o.grotan@ntnu.no |
| Address: |
Department of Production and Quality Engineering
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
S. P. Andersens veg 5
NO 7491 Trondheim, Norway |
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PhD Thesis
"Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Contribution to Resilient Global Logistics" (Preliminary title)
Competence/interests:
- Technical disciplines:
- Engineering cybernetics
- Large scale software development
- Computer communications
- Software and system reliability
- ICT security (computer security, communication security, risk assessment, security management and organization)
- Organizational and managerial disciplines:
- Organization theory
- Consulting and coaching processes
- Strategy and organizational development
- Chaos and complexity theory
- Hermeneutics and multidisciplinary approaches
- Safety management and resilience engineering
Current research interests
- Man-technology-organization (MTO) perspectives on safety and security
- Information security management
- Complexity and reflexity in industrial systems
- Adaptive safety management and resilience engineering in complex, dynamic systems
- Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) and cognitive systems engineering (CSE) applied on safety and resilience management
- Modeling the ICT contribution in the JCS (Joint cognitive system) context
- Sensemaking/enactment through ICT, hermeneutical impacts of ICT
- Research methodologies and intervention/improvement strategies applied on the above areas
Professional career:
| 2005-? |
PhD student at NTNU. |
| 2004-? |
Senior scientist, SINTEF Technology and Society. |
| 2000-2004 |
Principal advisor, Norwegian Centre for Health Informatics (KITH). |
| 1993-2000 |
Senior advisor, Norwegian Centre for Health Informatics (KITH). |
| 1986-1993 |
Developer/manager, Alcatel Telecom Norway. |
| 1984-1986 |
Research scientist, ELAB/SINTEF. |
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