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Developmental evaluation is gaining interest in the evaluation, service and policy community, but do these newfound fans know what they are getting when they ask for it? Grasping the fundamentals of development as opposed to growth is one of the foundations to its utility.
Grasping Developmental Evaluation Read More »
What is mindfulness and why should we be paying attention to it in our individual and organizational work in health systems? This post explores that very question.
A Mindful New Year Read More »
Complex systems require the kind of deep attention that science brings, the spirit of engagement and problem solving that designers offer, and a space to bring them together. With their focus on reductionist science and the lack of embrace of design, universities haven’t been the home to this kind of thinking. But things can change because, after all, this is a complex dynamic system we’re talking about.
Embracing Complexity / Science Read More »
Many academics are so far removed from the real world that we’ve left little reason for the public to WANT to engage us. But the downside is that we’ve taken many of the methods and tools that we’ve honed over centuries and do produce some good data and synthesis with us. Designers need us to help them step up their game as much as we need designers to help behavioural scientists step up theirs.
Design & Behavioural Science: It’s Time Read More »
As the holidays approach, the days get shorter, and the number of demands increase, I am reminded about the benefits of coffee beyond the warmth it brings and how, with time (and maybe a little sugar), it can do wonders to stoke innovation.
Coffee Culture and Ideas: A Need for A Break Read More »
Using complexity science principles to guide the process and powered by social media and face-to-face engagement, the power to take what we know, contextualize it, and transform it into something we can act on seems to me the best way forward in dealing with problems of chronic disease that are so knotted and pervasive, yet demand rapid responses.
The Face-to-Face Complexity of eHealth & Knowledge Exchange Read More »
Design thinking includes principles that demand inclusion of multiple perspectives on the problem, collaborative ideation, and purposeful wandering through a subject matter. It’s time to fit to evaluation has come.
More Design Thinking & Evaluation Read More »
What a design-oriented approach to evaluation does is greatly enhance the participant’s sense of the whole, what the needs and desires and fears both parties are dealing with, not just the executive or rational elements. More importantly, this strategy looks at how these different components might interact by simulating a condition in which they might play out.
Design Thinking & Evaluation Read More »
When resources are tight and the number of people competing for those resources is greater than ever, a communication strategy that is cost-effective over the long-term, robust, adaptive and brings people and ideas closer together is a good bet. Time to restore not only sanity, but relationships in our work.
Restoring Sanity in Health Communications Read More »
We have this remarkable paradox where the demands for more, better, appropriate, timely knowledge is greater than ever on problems that are becoming ever-more complex with more tools to generate and sort this information, and no time to actually use it effectively.
Time and Chance Doesn’t Happen to Us All Read More »
