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Doing Our Homework on our Research

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 139 Views 1 Comment covid-19, design research, research, service design

Checking our assumptions about basic things could be the difference between design delight and doom. If you were to tell

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evaluation innovation social media 

Monitoring, Principles and Impotent Strategy

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 128 Views 0 Comments evaluation, Facebook, Michael Quinn Patton, monitoring and evaluation, principles, principles-focused evaluation, sensemaking, social media, strategy, Twitter, United States

Without connecting monitoring of our programs with our principles and strategy, we are simply creating impotency in our organizations. The

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Fit and Function

October 19, 2020October 20, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 442 Views design, evaluation, innovation, measurement

Many issues faced in times of change is negotiating fit with function and how shifting one can transform the other.

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behaviour change evaluation systems thinking 

Tripwires and Cascades

October 15, 2020October 15, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 506 Views cascade, evaluation, greg satell, innovation, systems thinking

Understanding what a tripwire is and the cascade of behaviours that come from it are keys to linking causes and effects and evaluating change dynamics.

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The More Things Change

September 14, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 472 Views evaluation, learning, measurement, system change

Aphorisms about change and stability abound and the truths they tell can set us free if we listen. We’ve all

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Innovation’s Fear Factor

September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 402 Views change, evaluation, fear, gaming, innovation, jane mcgonigal, learning, measurement, psychology

The fear of failure are reasons why our best work never sees the light of day ; gaming can make

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Five Hundred

August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1166 Views design, design thinking, education, learning, psychology, self-care

Lessons learned from more than a decade of publishing Censemaking.

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evaluation psychology 

Signals and Actions

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 879 Views behaviour change, evaluation, intention, psychology, racism, social change

Signals of intent can be misleading indicators of future action and may lead away from our desired change. They are

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complexity education & learning evaluation 

Learning As Our Outcome

April 23, 2020April 28, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 2055 Views complexity, covid-19, evaluation, evaluative thinking, innovation, learning, research

You knew it would come . This week we started to see accusations and conflict peek through what had been

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Live Learning

April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 659 Views complexity, developmental design, evaluation, evaluative thinking, learning

Our models of organized learning could benefit from the disruption we’re seeing across society…if we allow it. The conceit of

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