The ARCH of Synergy Effects (Summary and Diagrams)

This article only shares some diagrams for the long article.

Today I wrote a long article about a case study of Synergy Effects. You can find the full article on the Activity Analysis Center website.

I will only share the summary and diagrams here.

The concept of Synergy in Emergence Theory

I don’t use Emergence Theory for discussing Synergy Effects. I pay attention to two subjects who share the same object.

For example, Activity Analysis Center (Subject A) and Curativity Center (Subject B) are members of my “Curativity” knowledge enterprise. Both two subjects are “Knowledge Center”.

I adopt the “Anticipatory Activity System (AAS)” framework to understand “Knowledge Center”:

• First-order Activity: Knowledge Service
• Second-order Activity: Knowledge Discovery

There are many approaches in the field of Activity Theory and Social Practice theories. Thus, there is an opportunity for Activity Analysis…