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A Beautiful Idea

April 10, 2017April 10, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 76 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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International Women’s Day, Every Day

March 8, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 98 Views #IWD2017, attractor, community psychology, complexity, emergence, evaluation, football, gender, gender equality, global health, men, power, sex, social position, systems change, systems perspective, systems thinking, theory of change, violence against women, women, women's issues

Today is International Women’s Day when the attention of one half of the world’s population is brought to the entire

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Lost together

July 13, 2016July 13, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 88 Views adaptive 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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Developmental Evaluation and Design

January 28, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 111 Views attractor, Bob Logan, CENSE Research + Design, complex adaptive system, complexity, complexity science, design, design theory, design thinking, developmental design, developmental evaluation, emergence, evaluation, Greg Van Alstyne, Herbert Simon, innovation, program evaluation, social innovation

Innovation is about channeling new ideas into useful products and services, which is really about design. Thus, if developmental

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Developmental Design and The Innovator’s Mindset

August 16, 2013August 16, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 89 Views adaptation, Android, anthropology, Apple, attractor, Blackberry, complexity, design thinking, developmental design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, Globe and Mail, Google, innovation, Instagram, iPad, iPhone, iPod, leadership, mobile phones, multimedia, observation, photography, resilience, Samsung, Steve Jobs, strategy, systems thinking, technology, video, Vine

Blackberry, once the ‘must have’ device is no longer so and may no longer even exist. Looking back on how

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