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What Do We Behold With Our Tools?

December 22, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 592 Views AI, algorithms, communications, critical thinking, media, social media

Algorithms influence our online experience and as that becomes a bigger part of life it has consequences beyond the digital

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The Folly of Foresight

September 17, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 628 Views amy webb, behaviour change, behavioural design, behavioural science, covid-19, design-strategy, futures, human-centred design, nudge, psychology, public health, strategic foresight

Seeing the road ahead isn’t the same as doing something to get there: it’s a lesson that foresight and strategy

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Seasons and the Sun: Seeing and Experiencing Change

June 25, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 720 Views Calgary, china, complexity, covid-19, nature, performance, psychology, religion, ritual, stonehenge, strategy, time, United Kingdom, United States

Thinking in ‘seasons’ allows us to see systems at play that are disguised in the every day. To every thing

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Survey Says What?

April 14, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1564 Views complexity, covid-19, evaluation, health, perception, research, survey, VUCA

Our data collection efforts during a time of VUCA are impaired by not only our methods, but our sense of what is actually happening.

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Systems Thinking and Networks

March 20, 2020July 3, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1346 Views complexity, covid-19, design, network theory, public health, social networks, systems thinking

The most visible systems lesson from virus spreads are related to networks if we know how to see them. In

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Systems Thinking About Action: Complexity

March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1967 Views complexity, complexity science, coordination, covid-19, Cynefin Framework, Dave Snowden, evaluation, learning, outbreak, pandemic, public health, Toronto Public Health, World Health Organization

The global pandemic situation has provided us with a lesson in complexity by giving us much to see, learn, and

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Systems Thinking About Preparedness and Scaredness

March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1703 Views covid-19, healthcare, public health, stock and flow, system dynamics

Events like the COVID-19 pandemic provide us with examples of how to think about systems and why, when, and how

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Beautiful Work

February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 588 Views aesthetics, creativity, design, employee engagement, health promotion, wellbeing, workplace

Making your world and work beautiful has tangible benefits for performance and wellbeing. It’s not trivia to focus on aesthetics.

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Capturing System Effects

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 929 Views art, design, evaluation, impact, measurement, psychiatry, Think You Can Shrink, Thomas Ungar

We can learn about effects — what is generated from our services and products – by studying a banana stuck to a wall. Here’s how. #evaluation #ideas #innovation

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