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The Complexity Cop-out

March 6, 2020March 6, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 397 Views Alberta, complex adaptive systems, complexity, complexity science, education, emergence, homelessness, learning, Medicine Hat

Complexity introduces significant challenges for humans. One of the unexpected ones is that it’s been used to hide from difficult

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A Beautiful Idea

April 10, 2017April 10, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 482 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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International Women’s Day, Every Day

March 8, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 432 Views #IWD2017, attractor, community psychology, complexity, emergence, evaluation, football, gender, gender equality, global health, men, power, sex, social position, systems change, systems perspective, systems thinking, theory of change, violence against women, women, women's issues

Today is International Women’s Day when the attention of one half of the world’s population is brought to the entire

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Mental health: talking and listening

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 527 Views Canada, design, emergence, mental health, Paul Antrobus, psychology, social media, wellbeing

Innovation might be doing things different to produce value, but there’s little value if we as a society are not

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Developmental Evaluation and Design

January 28, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 649 Views attractor, Bob Logan, CENSE Research + Design, complex adaptive system, complexity, complexity science, design, design theory, design thinking, developmental design, developmental evaluation, emergence, evaluation, Greg Van Alstyne, Herbert Simon, innovation, program evaluation, social innovation

  Innovation is about channeling new ideas into useful products and services, which is really about design. Thus, if developmental

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Developmental Evaluation and Mindfulness

January 20, 2014December 3, 2018 Cameron D. Norman 741 Views attention, CENSE Research + Design, complexity, decision making, developmental evaluation, education, emergence, evaluability assessment, health, innovation, Karl Weick, learning organization, metacognition, mindfulness, organizational mindfulness, sensemaking, social innovation

Developmental evaluation is focused on real-time decision making for programs operating in complex, changing conditions, which can tax the attentional

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Developmental Evaluation and Sensemaking

January 13, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 1002 Views American Journal of Evaluation, CENSE Research + Design, change leadership, data visualization, design, design thinking, developmental design, developmental evaluation, emergence, evaluation, learning, mindfulness, organizational development, research evaluation, sensemaking, strategic foresight, Tim Huerta, University of British Columbia

Developmental evaluation is only as good as the sense that can be made from the data that is received. To

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Bringing Design into Developmental Evaluation

January 2, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 516 Views Bob Logan, complexity, design, design theory, developmental design, developmental evaluation, emergence, evaluation, Greg Van Alstyne, implementation science, knowledge mobilization, knowledge translation, Michael Quinn Patton

Developmental evaluation is an approach to understanding and shaping programs in service of those who wish to grow and evolve

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complexity emergence journalism knowledge translation social media social systems systems thinking 

Shaking the System of Knowledge Translation and Journalism

September 10, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 487 Views AOL, complexity, developmental evaluation, digital economy, dominant design, emergence, Harvard University, innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, knowledge translation, media, New York Times, newspapers, Nieman Journalism Lab, path dependency, public policy, publishing, resilience, resiliency, science, social media, systems thinking, The Joan Shorenstein Center, transmedia, Twitter

Leveraging systems change comes when you are willing to examine the system itself, not just the component parts. News media

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One leg, two leg, three leg, more?

September 5, 2013September 5, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 352 Views anthropology, developmental design, developmental evaluation, emergence, evaluation, Facebook, feedback, relationships, Robin Dunbar, scale, scaling, shower, social innovation, social psychology, Star Trek

In Orwell’s classic Animal Farm the characters often oscillate between their evaluative assessments on the merits of two or four

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