Editing Sociotechnical system (section)

===ETHICS history===
The ETHICS (Effective Technical and Human Implementation of Computer Systems) process has been used successfully by Mumford in a variety of projects since its idea conception from the Turners Asbestos Cement project. After forgetting a vital request from the customer to discuss and potentially fix the issues found with the current organisation, she gave her advice on making a system. The system was not received well and Mumford was told they already had been using a similar system. This is when she realised a participative based approach would benefit many future projects.

Enid Mumfords ETHICS development was a push from her to remind those in the field that research doesn't always need to be done on things of current interest and following the immediate trends over your current research is not always the way forward. A reminder that work should always be finished and we should never “write them off with no outcome.” as she said.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Porra |first1=Jaana |last2=Hirschheim |first2=Rudy |title=A Lifetime of Theory and Action on the Ethical Use of Computers: A Dialogue with Enid Mumford |journal=Journal of the Association for Information Systems |date=8 September 2007 |volume=8 |issue=9 |pages=467–478 |doi=10.17705/1jais.00139 |url=https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol8/iss9/29/ |url-access=subscription }}</ref>