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Innovation to Your Inbox

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 334 Views 0 Comments communication, design, design thinking, evaluation, innovation, marketing, newsletter, organizational change, psychology, social media, strategic foresight, systems thinking

Of the many ways to reach people, email still works. Sometimes innovation is best doing new things with old tools.

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business innovation systems thinking 

An Organizing Framework for Innovation

September 10, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 479 Views culture of innovation, design, design thinking, developmental design, developmental evaluation, innovation, innovation ecosystem, strategic foresight, strategy, systems thinking

Innovation requires the right organizing, not just skill and vision. This article explores what that means in practice.

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Riding the waves of resilience

August 19, 2019August 19, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 558 Views complexity, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, foresight evaluation, service design, strategic foresight, strategy, system design, systems thinking

Big shakeups happen in work, life, and the economy regularly. Navigating these waves of change well requires forethought and foresight.

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behaviour change innovation systems science 

Tranformation in Three Numbers

June 12, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 694 Views AI, cense, complexity, design, evaluation, nicholas thompson, technology, wired magazine

Three numbers tell a story of transformation worth listening to. Our world is changing quickly and this week three numbers

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evaluation innovation social media social systems 

Transformation and Innovation

May 30, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 424 Views aesthetics, AI, change, Charles and Ray Eames, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, Facebook, innovation ecosystem, Instagram, Jaron Lanier, Living History, Marshall McLuhan

Innovation can involve small adjustments or great transformations. Social media provides a case study for understanding why ongoing monitoring and

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Innovation, Change and The Leopard

May 15, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1919 Views change, complexity, design, design-driven evaluation, design-driven-strategy, developmental evaluation, Guiseppe di Lampedusa, the leopard

Innovation is a misunderstood and often misrepresented concept that can provoke fear, indifference, resentment, confusion, or irrational exuberance. To understand

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evaluation social innovation 

Innovation Evaluation and the Burden of Proof

May 8, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 668 Views design, social impact

Innovating is about doing something new to produce value and this introduces substantial challenges for strategy and evaluation. Without knowing

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design thinking evaluation 

Utility in Design-Driven Evaluation

March 27, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 240 Views design, design-driven evaluation, evaluation, innovation, organizational change

Design-driven evaluation focuses attention on what organization’s use in their decision-making and learning to support the creation of their products,

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Leadership & Design Thinking: Missed Opportunities

February 26, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 324 Views design, design thinking, design-driven evaluation, evaluation, healthcare, Jon Kolko, social innovation, Tim Brown

A recent article titled ‘The Right Way to Lead Design Thinking’ gets a lot of things wrong not because of

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Design-driven Evaluation

February 20, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 333 Views American Evaluation Association, design, Design Loft, design principles, design-driven evaluation, Michael Quinn Patton, utilization-focused evaluation

A greater push for inclusion of evaluation data to make decisions and support innovation is not generating value if there

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