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Systems of Influence: The Hidden Forces Shaping What We Do

July 30, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 730 Views 2 Comments architecture, behaviour change, covid-19, design, health, motivation, psychology, systemic design, systems thinking, urbanism

Staying safe is about understanding systems that affect our choices, not just individuals. We need to design systems better if we want real change to take place.

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Survey Says What?

April 14, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1094 Views complexity, covid-19, evaluation, health, perception, research, survey, VUCA

Our data collection efforts during a time of VUCA are impaired by not only our methods, but our sense of what is actually happening.

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What is Evaluation For?

November 14, 2019November 14, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1200 Views curiosity, design, design thinking, developmental evaluation, evaluation, foresight, health, innovation, program evaluation, social justice, visionary evaluation

Evaluation is the longest four-letter word in the English language. Kidding aside, what is evaluation? Why should we all care?

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Talking About Mental Health at Work

October 10, 2019October 10, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1025 Views health, health promotion, mental health, podcast, wellbeing, workplace

Our mental health and well-being affect our work above everything. Taking care of ourselves is not an option; it’s essential.

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Same and Different

June 10, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 760 Views basketball, 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

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Confusing change-making with actual change

May 3, 2016May 3, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 526 Views complexity, design, developmental evaluation, discovery, evaluation, health, innovation, New York Times, obesity, psychology, research, social change, social innovation, systems thinking

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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Developmental Evaluation and Mindfulness

January 20, 2014December 3, 2018 Cameron D. Norman 948 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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