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Causal Looks: Foresight Fundamentals

June 18, 2020June 18, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 354 Views complexity, covid-19, evaluation, strategic foresight, strategy, urbanism

It’s been said the best way to predict the future is to create it: foresight is way to help us

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An Age of Creation

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 476 Views adaptive strategy, complexity, covid-19, creativity, innovation, panarchy, resilience, Seth Godin

Creativity can come from destruction. There are ways to think about this can can turn the down into something positive.

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Transformation and Innovation

May 30, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 790 Views aesthetics, AI, change, Charles and Ray Eames, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, Facebook, innovation ecosystem, Instagram, Jaron Lanier, Living History, Marshall McLuhan

Innovation can involve small adjustments or great transformations. Social media provides a case study for understanding why ongoing monitoring and

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Baby, It’s Cold Outside (and Other Evaluation Lessons)

December 6, 2018June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 720 Views Christmas, context, gender, gender equality, music, violence against women, women

The recent decision by many radio stations to remove the song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” from their rotation this holiday

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The logic of a $1000 iPhone

September 12, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 661 Views Apple, foresight, handset, iPhone, social media, society, technology, trends

Today Apple is expected to release a new series of iPhone handsets with the base price for one set at

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Time. Care. Attention.

May 17, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 641 Views attention, care, compassion, craft, developmental evaluation, flourishing, innovation, learning, mindfulness, time

A read through a typical management or personal improvement feed will reveal near infinite recommendations for steps you can take

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Healing, by design

April 25, 2017April 25, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 459 Views community psychology, complexity, Cynefin Framework, design, developmental evaluation, emotional baggage, evaluation, healer, healing, Indigenous psychology, organizational development, psychology, psychotherapy, Richard Katz

The concept of healing plays an integral part of healthy human development in many cultures, yet is largely unknown or misunderstood in

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What’s in your baggage?

April 19, 2017April 19, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 1596 Views adaptation, compassion, complexity, design thinking, emotional baggage, evaluation, love, mindful organizations, mindfulness, psychology, reflective practice, strategy, systems thinking, wellbeing, work

Social and emotional baggage is what we bring with us and, like the real thing, it’s all in what we

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A Beautiful Idea

April 10, 2017April 10, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 590 Views attention, attractor, beauty, behaviour change, book, complexity, creativity, creators, design, emergence, organizational aesthetics, organizational psychology, path dependence, research, Steven De Groot

Is what you do, where you work, or how you organize, beautiful? Among the many words used to describe our

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