Taking My Own Innovation Medicine (Why It Took Me 10 Years To Produce a Podcast): Part 1
Producing a podcast in 2011 was novel; not in 2021 – although the lessons learned from 10 years of trying
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What is Sensemaking? Part 2: Practice
Sensemaking practice is social, interactive, and focused on strategies to work through what we think, know, and imagine. In our
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Design For How We See Ourselves
Identity shapes design of products and services so why ignore it when we are designing for humans lives? Who we
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Entangled Knots and Complexity
The idea of entanglements is central to understanding complexity in systems and the knots that they generate The idea of
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Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Our understanding of situations are co-constructed and that means our future is, too. Shaping our future — at least one
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System Entanglements and Change
‘New beginnings’ is a phrase that only works when both words are true and the systems around them support their
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The Sense-making Winter
Winter provides a literal and metaphorical season ripe for sense-making if the other seasons are different Winter creates a natural
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A Better Next
Beforetimes were different than now and what’s next will be different, too. The difference is that one we can design
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Listening Matters
Shared events do not always yield common experiences or perceptions: our design research must keep that in mind. Prior to
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Innovation Patterns and History Lessons
Those looking to history to shape our future innovations should be wary of the conclusions they draw. Remember the Roaring
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