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Innovation for the Real World

April 15, 2021October 4, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 587 Viewschange, 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?

Measuring What Matters: Design Thinking

September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 861 Viewsdata, design, design ethics, design thinking, ethics, evaluation, measurement, psychology, race, weird

Measurement can be a trick to deflect us from what matters most, which often can’t be measured. I recently saw

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Amplification and Impact

December 5, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1090 Views5G 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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Same and Different

June 10, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1177 Viewsbasketball, culture, data, ethnography, health, organizational change, research methods, sleep, sport, Toronto, toronto raptors, transformation

Our ability to affect change in organizations and systems is based heavily on our assumptions about similarities and differences between

Meaning and metrics for innovation

September 13, 2018June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1049 Viewsdata, design, developmental evaluation, measurement, metrics, sensemaking, theory of change, theory of stage

Metrics are at the heart of evaluation of impact and value in products and services although they are rarely straightforward.

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Living Our Future Selves Today With Foresight

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Strategic Foresight can do more than help us to see what might come, it can help us to live better

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