March 2014 – Censemaking

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Isolation: The New Innovator’s Dilemma

March 27, 2014March 27, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 165 Views Apple, CENSE Research + Design, change leadership, connection, innovation, leadership, learning, Paul Born, Silicon Valley, social innovation, Steve Jobs, Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement, Toronto

Innovators transform the world around them in big and small ways and while a successful effort can be lauded by pundits, politicians

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Creativity and Craft, Myth and Muscle

March 24, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 147 Views CENSE Research + Design, creative confidence, creativity, David Kelley, design, design thinking, evaluation, expertise, innovation, Keith Sawyer, Sir Ken Robinson, social innovation, TED, Tom Kelley

Creativity is a word shrouded in myth that has been held up as this elusive, seductive object that will reveal

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Asking Better and More Beautiful Questions

March 12, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 263 Views book, book review, CENSE Research + Design, community psychology, design, design thinking, education, Google, inquiry, Larry Page, learning, mindful organizations, mindfulness, Montessori, poverty, psychology, questions, Sergey Brin, social innovation, strategic intent, strategy, systems thinking, Warren Berger

Beautiful answers require beautiful (and better) questions and Warren Berger’s new book looks at this very phenomenon of inquiry and

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Do you value (social) innovation?

March 5, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 198 Views book, Charles and Ray Eames, complexity, design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, innovation, Michael Quinn Patton, social innovation, social laboratories, social psychology, technology, Zaid Hassan

The term evaluation has at its root the term value and to evaluate innovation means to assess the value that

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