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Design Thinking: From Cognition to Craft

November 27, 2020November 27, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 636 Views 1 Comment Bruce Mau, creativity, culture of innovation, design, design thinking, evaluation, innovation, inspiration, leadership

Design thinking is best approached as a habit, not as an exercise. Just as ‘critical thinking’ isn’t meant to be applied sporadically to one’s life, neither is design thinking.

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complexity social systems 

An Age of Creation

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 563 Views adaptive strategy, complexity, covid-19, creativity, innovation, panarchy, resilience, Seth Godin

Creativity can come from destruction. There are ways to think about this can can turn the down into something positive.

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Beautiful Work

February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 427 Views aesthetics, creativity, design, employee engagement, health promotion, wellbeing, workplace

Making your world and work beautiful has tangible benefits for performance and wellbeing. It’s not trivia to focus on aesthetics.

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behaviour change psychology science & technology 

Conflicted Interests

July 12, 2019July 13, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 753 Views behaviour change, creativity, discovery, innovation, learning, psychology, rationality, Robert Scott Root-Bernstein, science, theory

Shifting outcomes requires shifts in our thinking about what works The science journal Nature recently published a thought piece looking

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Smart goals or better systems?

July 19, 2017December 1, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1434 Views adaptive strategy, creativity, decision making, evaluation, goals, impact, innovation, measurement, organizational design, organizational development, performance measurement, program evaluation, social change, systems thinking

If you’re working toward some sort of collective goals — as an organization, network or even as an individual —

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Decoupling creators from their creations

June 1, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 532 Views attention, creativity, creators, evaluation, innovation, innovation ecosystem, learning, organizational mindfulness, social innovation, social media

The world is transformed by creators — the artists, the innovators, the leaders — and their creations are what propel change

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A Beautiful Idea

April 10, 2017April 10, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 665 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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The Ecology of Innovation: Part 1 – Ideas

December 5, 2014December 16, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 965 Views biology, brainstorming, creativity, design thinking, ecosystem, evaluation, ideas, innovation, innovation ecosystem

There is a tendency when looking at innovation to focus on the end result of a process of creation rather

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Creativity and Craft, Myth and Muscle

March 24, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 720 Views CENSE Research + Design, creative confidence, creativity, David Kelley, design, design thinking, evaluation, expertise, innovation, Keith Sawyer, Sir Ken Robinson, social innovation, TED, Tom Kelley

Creativity is a word shrouded in myth that has been held up as this elusive, seductive object that will reveal

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Reading Innovation and the New Economy

December 17, 2013December 18, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 674 Views Amazon, Bob Logan, books, business, Chapters, creativity, design, design for emergence, economy, entrepreneurship, foresight, Greg Van Alstyne, innovation, Jeff Bezos, Keith Sawyer, theatre

Economic changes are transforming business and work itself in ways that are having consequences well beyond supply chains and jobs,

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