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Transformation and Innovation

May 30, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 424 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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Do you value (social) innovation?

March 5, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 260 Views book, Charles and Ray Eames, complexity, design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, innovation, Michael Quinn Patton, social innovation, social laboratories, social psychology, technology, Zaid Hassan

The term evaluation has at its root the term value and to evaluate innovation means to assess the value that

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The Ideology of Scaling Social Innovations

August 24, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 128 Views Charles and Ray Eames, complexity, design, developmental design, efficiency, evaluation, ideology, Jamer Hunt, Janice Gross Stein, Power of 10, scalar variance, six sigma, social innovation

Without best evidence (which is almost always lacking in social innovation by its very nature), setting performance targets related to scale a priori is foolish. For innovators themselves, equally foolish is not gathering the kind of information about the systems they are operating in to know if they are the human or the ant and whether a shower is on the way.

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