Travelling offers up some of the clearest examples of how complexity, connection, and coordination intersect. Consider how many relationships, represented in networks, embodied practices, and individual nodes (people, transactions, units) are involved in a flight from one place to another. It’s an amazing feat when you think of how often things go relatively smoothly and […]
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When the online mechanisms for fostering professional networking fail, what do we do? Could the lowly email newsletter be the key to building the trust needed to network well and maintain what was once lost from the platforms who no longer serve our needs.
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What if we designed for seasons, not static systems? A living systems approach to creating better services and systems means designing like gardeners, not engineers. The implications for health systems is enormous.
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Weirdness is part of being human. When we write or create, we channel our ideas, thoughts, feelings and intentions through our bodies onto the page. When this gets automated, we lose the thinking benefits that once came with writing.
Among the many definitions of health, few describe how we create and relate to it within a dynamic world, leaving us with models that put the onus on individuals, not systems. That requires change. This is one of many “thinking through writing” posts that I’ll be publishing as I journey through how I see design
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Spending time designing a health system that is entirely hypothetical can provide insight into how we shape the health systems we have in ways we wouldn’t have otherwise. Theoretical exercises aren’t usually top of the list of what most leaders want to spend time doing. That presupposition might require some qualification. Let’s start with a
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Among the great lies that people tell is that they can tame complexity through technical means, quickly, when the truth is much slower than that. Hot takes, tips and tricks, and simplistic models of AI, data, governance, and decision-making aren’t going to solve complexity. Complexity won’t be solved. Some complex problems might get solved, but
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In an earlier post, we looked at what classroom complexity might look like if we peeked in to a typical school. I introduced some of the many scenarios that play out in schools and how some might be connected through the myriad intersections that comprise the current classroom context. In this post, I’m providing a
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Classroom complexity is a term creeping into the educational policy landscape. With it, we’re seeing many ideas about solutions when what we might need are different ways of thinking. If you have been to school as a teacher, parent, or student recently, you’ll know that the classroom isn’t the same place it once was. As
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Preparedness and strategy need to be fit for purpose. This article looks at a recent event in Finland that parallels COVID-19 and illustrates how we need to think of health systems strategy as a dynamic, complexity-ready process, not a static plan.
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