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Practice and Thermostats

December 17, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 842 Views 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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Amplification and Impact

December 5, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 549 Views 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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Big Changes Through Small Actions

November 29, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 709 Views behaviour change, Black Friday, change, complexity, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, habit, marketing, retail, Seth Godin, systems change, systems thinking

Our consumption habits will kill our planet if we let it. Small actions, done often, can change our future course.

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Complexity in Practice

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 923 Views complexity, Cynefin Framework, retail, systems thinking

The global retail phenomenon called ‘Black Friday’ demonstrates true complexity. How what and where we buy shapes how we live.

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Scaling Impact

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1951 Views 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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Failure and Learning

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 559 Views complexity, evaluation, innovation, learning, measurement, net promoter score, research

Failure deals in absolutes while learning is about discovering possibility. Focusing on the former often leads us to miss the

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Tooling Up for Systemic Design & Learning

September 24, 2019September 24, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 442 Views complexity, innovation, learning, organizational learning, systemic design, toolkit

Innovation work requires a mindset, a skillset, and a toolset. The key is finding the right tools for the job.

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Design for Movement

September 16, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 448 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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Riding the waves of resilience

August 19, 2019August 19, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 772 Views complexity, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, foresight evaluation, service design, strategic foresight, strategy, system design, systems thinking

Big shakeups happen in work, life, and the economy regularly. Navigating these waves of change well requires forethought and foresight.

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Putting our organizations on the couch

July 23, 2019July 24, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 625 Views complexity, goals, innovation, innovation ecosystem, innovation lab, metrics, organizational change, organizational psychology, psychotherapy

Creating change through rational planning only gets us halfway there. Looking inward will take us the rest of the journey.

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