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Confusing change-making with actual change

May 3, 2016May 3, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 9 Views

Change-making is the process of transformation and not to be confused with the transformed outcome that results from such a

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What’s the big idea and how are you going to make it real?

February 6, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 10 Views adaptation, Albert Einstein, design thinking, discovery, Herbert Simon, innovation, social innovation, Steve Jobs, strategy

Concepts like design thinking and developmental evaluation are best used when they help ask big questions before seeking answers. How

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The Organizational Zombie Resistance Kit

October 29, 2013January 3, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 17 Views

Zombies — unaware, semi-conscious, distracted individuals — are all around us and running many of the organizations we work in

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How Serious Are We About Learning?

July 26, 2012October 1, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 36 Views behaviour change, Dan Pink, discovery, education, innovation, Jonah Lehrer, knowledge integration, learning, mindfulness, organizational change, psychology, public health, Robert Scott Root-Bernstein, social innovation, social systems, Steven Johnson, systems thinking, Toronto, University of Toronto

When journalist and book author Daniel Pink tweeted the above image the other day it provoked thinking about what real

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Failure Fetishism and the Language of Success

April 4, 2011March 26, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 10 Views business, design, discovery, failure, Harvard Business Review, innovation

This month’s Harvard Business Review is focusing on failure, showcasing a concept that was once avoided at all costs. But

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Design and Science: An Opportunity for Knowledge Translation and Exchange??

February 27, 2011 Cameron D. Norman 28 Views collaboration, design, discovery, IDEO, knowledge translation, science, Tim Brown, translational research

Knowledge translation models, such as the widely cited one conceived of by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, are both process and outcome oriented; ideal for designers. KT is a designed process and the more it is approached through the lens of design thinking, the greater likelihood we’ll get a system that reflects its intentions better than what we currently have.

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Time and Chance Doesn’t Happen to Us All

October 28, 2010December 30, 2011 Cameron D. Norman 10 Views complexity, discovery, innovation, mhealth, public health, time

We have this remarkable paradox where the demands for more, better, appropriate, timely knowledge is greater than ever on problems that are becoming ever-more complex with more tools to generate and sort this information, and no time to actually use it effectively.

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Jaron Lanier and Dominant Design

March 11, 2010 Cameron D. Norman 15 Views book, complexity theory, critical theory, discovery, innovation, review, social innovation, social media, technology

Are we creating path dependencies with our creative technologies that actually limit creativity? Jaron Lanier thinks so and in this post I introduce the concept of dominant design and what it means in terms of technological and social innovation.

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Innovation and (Higher) Education

February 21, 2010May 25, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 5 Views behaviour change, design thinking, discovery, education, innovation, learning, non-linearity, science, social innovation, systems thinking, university

In my last post I wrote about the problems facing scientific discovery and how our system of research funding