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Riding the waves of resilience

August 19, 2019August 19, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 196 Views 0 Comments complexity, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, foresight evaluation, service design, strategic foresight, strategy, system design, systems thinking

Big shakeups happen in work, life, and the economy regularly. Navigating these waves of change well requires forethought and foresight.

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What change and pool diving have in common

August 12, 2019August 14, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 206 Views 0 Comments behaviour change, organizational change, performance

Change is much like taking a dive off the high diving board. It’s risks and perceptions are never what you think until you get to the top of the diving board, look down, and jump.

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Getting Out of Our Heads

August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 256 Views 0 Comments art, beauty, behaviour change, cognition, cognitive science, H.L. Mencken, health behaviour change, health psychology, John Wenger, Leonardo da Vinci, organizational aesthetics, psychology, sociodrama, strategic foresight, strategy, theory

Too much change psychology focuses on the way we think. Sometimes creating change requires we get out of our heads.

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Putting our organizations on the couch

July 23, 2019July 24, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 294 Views 0 Comments complexity, goals, innovation, innovation ecosystem, innovation lab, metrics, organizational change, organizational psychology, psychotherapy

Creating change through rational planning only gets us halfway there. Looking inward will take us the rest of the journey.

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Conflicted Interests

July 12, 2019July 13, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 284 Views 0 Comments behaviour change, creativity, discovery, innovation, learning, psychology, rationality, Robert Scott Root-Bernstein, science, theory

Shifting outcomes requires shifts in our thinking about what works The science journal Nature recently published a thought piece looking

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Tranformation in Three Numbers

June 12, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 477 Views 0 Comments AI, cense, complexity, design, evaluation, nicholas thompson, technology, wired magazine

Three numbers tell a story of transformation worth listening to. Our world is changing quickly and this week three numbers

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Same and Different

June 10, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 300 Views 0 Comments basketball, culture, data, ethnography, health, organizational change, research methods, sleep, sport, Toronto, toronto raptors, transformation

Our ability to affect change in organizations and systems is based heavily on our assumptions about similarities and differences between

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Transformation and Innovation

May 30, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 260 Views 0 Comments aesthetics, AI, change, Charles and Ray Eames, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, Facebook, innovation ecosystem, Instagram, Jaron Lanier, Living History, Marshall McLuhan

Innovation can involve small adjustments or great transformations. Social media provides a case study for understanding why ongoing monitoring and

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Innovation, Change and The Leopard

May 15, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1695 Views change, complexity, design, design-driven evaluation, design-driven-strategy, developmental evaluation, Guiseppe di Lampedusa, the leopard

Innovation is a misunderstood and often misrepresented concept that can provoke fear, indifference, resentment, confusion, or irrational exuberance. To understand

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