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behaviour change complexity evaluation psychology 

Change Stumbling

January 8, 2020January 8, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 176 Views 0 Comments adaptive strategy, change, design thinking, developmental evaluation, evaluation, Judo, motivation, movement, new year's resolutions, Parkour, psychology, strategic foresight, willpower

Change-making requires accepting some degree of failure. How we deal with our stumbles determines how or whether we succeed. If

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evaluation innovation social innovation 

Practice and Thermostats

December 17, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 447 Views 0 Comments adaptive action, adaptive strategy, benchmark, complexity, evaluation, practice, thermostat

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” Jean Luc

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design evaluation 

Dosing Innovation and Change

December 12, 2019December 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 480 Views 0 Comments case study, Coca Cola, design, drugs, entrepreneurship, evaluation, health innovation, healthcare, history, innovation, John Gargani, marketing, mix, scale, scaling impact

Just like with drugs, dosage and interactions matter with learning and innovation; it’s about amount, mix, and more. If you

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evaluation innovation strategic foresight 

Amplification and Impact

December 5, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 406 Views 0 Comments 5G technology, AI, business, change, communication, complexity, data, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, feedback, innovation, learning, marketing, marketing complexity, mobile phones, Pareto distribution, Peloton, sensemaking, social media, technology, transformation

Transformations are easier to understand retrospectively, not in real time. New technologies are about to upend that, forever. It is

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Scaling Impact

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1558 Views 1 Comment complex adaptive systems, complex innovation, complexity, Geoffrey West, IDRC, innovation, John Gargani, lean methodology, research, Santa Fe Institute, scaling, scaling impact, science, social innovation, systems thinking

‘Achieving scale’ might be the golden goose of social innovation. It’s a simple phrase, but its meaning and misunderstanding is

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complexity evaluation innovation 

What Does Developmental Evaluation Look Like?

September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 361 Views developmental design, developmental evaluation, discovery, innovation, principle-focused evaluation

Developmental Evaluation is all about using data to support innovation. How does this look in practice (and how’s it done?)

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evaluation 

Knowing Your Impact

September 27, 2019September 27, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 326 Views design-driven evaluation, evaluation, impact

Evaluation tells your innovation’s impact story to the wider world. Learn more about what you do by learning about evaluation.

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behaviour change evaluation innovation psychology strategic foresight 

Design for Movement

September 16, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 310 Views behaviour change, change, complexity, evaluation, feedback, foresight, movement, systems dynamics

Innovation requires learning to design for the changes around us. This involves not treating moving things as if they’re still.

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evaluation innovation psychology 

Deception and Labels

August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 495 Views demographics, failure, future of work, identity, innovation, label, measurement, psychology, research, work

Labels can shape the behaviour they describe, affecting our research. Knowing when labels describes or shapes actions makes a difference.

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evaluation research systems science 

Same and Different

June 10, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 522 Views 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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