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When Strategy Solutions Are Hidden in Plain Sight

January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 78 Views 0 Comments adaptive strategy, complexity, covid-19, design, innovation, principles, public health, strategy

The COVID-19 pandemic and its effects provide a perfect example of similarity and difference in strategy, outcome, and impact. Are

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Post-Pandemic Planning (Strategy in a Dangerous Time)

December 17, 2021January 4, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 418 Views 0 Comments adaptation, adaptive strategy, decision making, design, evaluation, innovation, persistence, psychology, strategic design, strategy

At the time of this writing, the world is wrestling with a new fast-moving variant of the COVID-19 virus (Omicron)

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Strategy as Service Design

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 1855 Views 1 Comment adaptive strategy, design methods, design research, design thinking, foresight, innovation, learning, service design, strategy

What if we viewed our strategy as a vehicle for shaping our services rather than the other way around? By

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Complexity At The Beach

July 12, 2021July 12, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 569 Viewsadaptive strategy, behaviour change, complex adaptive systems, complexity, psychology, science, strategy, systems thinking

We can learn much about change from our trips to the beach and how things relate to one another. Beach-going

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An Age of Creation

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 838 Viewsadaptive 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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Change Stumbling

January 8, 2020January 8, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 840 Viewsadaptive 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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Practice and Thermostats

December 17, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1216 Viewsadaptive 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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Strategy: Myths, fantasies, and reality

August 7, 2018August 15, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1115 Viewsadaptive strategy, business, complexity, organizations, strategic intent, strategy

A defining feature of sustained excellence in any enterprise is a good strategy — a vision and plan linked to

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Smart goals or better systems?

July 19, 2017December 1, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 2127 Viewsadaptive strategy, creativity, decision making, evaluation, goals, impact, innovation, measurement, organizational design, organizational development, performance measurement, program evaluation, social change, systems thinking

If you’re working toward some sort of collective goals — as an organization, network or even as an individual —

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Lost together

July 13, 2016July 13, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 780 Viewsadaptive strategy, attractor, backbone organization, behaviour change, change, collective impact, complexity, flashlight, Guiseppe di Lampedusa, innovation, psychology, resilience, risk, risk mitigation, simple rules, social innovation, Stanford Social Innovation Review, strategy, streetlight effect

Doing new things to create social value means going into the great unknown, yet our fear of being lost need

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When Strategy Solutions Are Hidden in Plain Sight

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Practice and Thermostats

Strategy: Myths, fantasies, and reality

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