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Innovation for the Real World

April 15, 2021October 4, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 448 Views change, complexity, Cynefin Framework, data, design, innovation, organizational psychology, perspective taking, psychological safety, psychology, systems perspective, systems thinking

Why does most of what we read about innovation resemble very little of what our work life actually looks like?

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Developing Creative Confidence With Practice

February 20, 2021February 24, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 487 Views Albert Bandura, behaviour change, creative confidence, creativity, Cynefin Framework, design thinking, futures, innovation, psychology, self-efficacy

The means to developing the ability to create useful, valued products and service comes from learning through doing. What is

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An Opportunity for Systemic Design

April 7, 2020April 7, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1121 Views complexity, covid-19, Cynefin Framework, scale, systemic design, systems change, toolkit

When systems are changing everywhere the opportunities to direct some of that change to design the world we want has

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Unprecedented: Living Complexity

April 2, 2020April 2, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1410 Views Cognitive Edge, complex adaptive systems, complexity, complexity theory, covid-19, Cynefin Framework, economics, public health, systemic design

‘Unprecedented’ is a term that is changing how we understand complexity and foresight. One thing that often makes complex situations

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Systems Thinking About Time and Motion

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1105 Views complexity, covid-19, Cynefin Framework, design-driven evaluation, design-driven-strategy, developmental evaluation, principles-focused evaluation, public health, time

In changing times its important to recognize both the words change and time if we want to understand systems. On

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Systems Thinking About Action: Complexity

March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1985 Views complexity, complexity science, coordination, covid-19, Cynefin Framework, Dave Snowden, evaluation, learning, outbreak, pandemic, public health, Toronto Public Health, World Health Organization

The global pandemic situation has provided us with a lesson in complexity by giving us much to see, learn, and

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Complexity in Practice

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1423 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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Healing, by design

April 25, 2017April 25, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 739 Views community psychology, complexity, Cynefin Framework, design, developmental evaluation, emotional baggage, evaluation, healer, healing, Indigenous psychology, organizational development, psychology, psychotherapy, Richard Katz

The concept of healing plays an integral part of healthy human development in many cultures, yet is largely unknown or misunderstood in

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Standing Out / Outstanding: The Standards Problem

June 5, 2011 Cameron D. Norman 450 Views Cynefin Framework, evidence, innovation, systems thinking, university

Human service providers live in paradox by stressing best practices while wishing for some recognition of the unique qualities that they bring. Can being unique be the standard we need?

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Spectrum Thinking and Complex Systems

December 19, 2010August 27, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1547 Views complex adaptive systems, complexity, Cynefin Framework, Dave Snowden, education, higher education, public health, sensemaking, systems thinking, university

Systems thinking requires spectrum thinking. People must be able to see things on a gradient, rather than in absolute compartments. Students can’t be faulted too much for having a hard time with this when they are graded based on letters where a B+ is a 79 and an A- is one percentage point higher, yet the mere presence of a B (anything) on a transcript can mean the difference between an award, admission, or a job and not.