An Age of Creation
Creativity can come from destruction. There are ways to think about this can can turn the down into something positive.
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Learning As Our Outcome
You knew it would come . This week we started to see accusations and conflict peek through what had been a largely harmonious, if somewhat fragmented, response to the global pandemic. What was at first behind the scenes now took centre stage. Governments, citizens, public health officials, and scientists are starting to point the fingers
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Survey Says What?
Our data collection efforts during a time of VUCA are impaired by not only our methods, but our sense of what is actually happening.
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An Opportunity for Systemic Design
When systems are changing everywhere the opportunities to direct some of that change to design the world we want has never been greater. Systemic design has been developing over the past decade from a set of loosely connected ideas drawn from different streams of systems thinking and the multidisciplinary field of design. Brought together, this
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Unprecedented: Living Complexity
‘Unprecedented’ is a term that is changing how we understand complexity and foresight. One thing that often makes complex situations live up to their name is that there is so much going on at once in different directions, velocities, and timing; it’s hard to connect causes with consequences. We hear the term ‘unprecedented‘ being used
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Systems Thinking About Time and Motion
In changing times its important to recognize both the words change and time if we want to understand systems. On a social and economic level we’ve never seen more transformation of everyday life come or affect systems as we have with the global COVID-19 pandemic. What it provides us is an opportunity to learn, contemplate,
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Systems Thinking and Networks
The most visible systems lesson from virus spreads are related to networks if we know how to see them. In the early 1980’s Faberge Organics Shampoo (the stuff Steve, the character in the Netflix show Stranger Things uses to get his hair so ‘perfect’) ran advertisements that used network theory to serve as a prop
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Systems Thinking About Action: Complexity
The global pandemic situation has provided us with a lesson in complexity by giving us much to see, learn, and do if we pay attention. It’s been said that the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago and the second best time is today. Our personal, social, and organizational preparedness plans are
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Systems Thinking About Preparedness and Scaredness
Events like the COVID-19 pandemic provide us with examples of how to think about systems and why, when, and how to prepare, panic, do neither or both. A Thursday evening trip to the neighbourhood supermarket was anything but ordinary. The first sign was the lack of parking spots and no shopping carts outside. Inside it
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