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Beautiful Innovation

July 2, 2020July 2, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 498 Views aesthetics, beauty, book, covid-19, design, design thinking, discovery, health evidence, healthcare, hospitals, innovation, integrative thinking, organizational aesthetics, Steven De Groot

Aesthetics and beauty are often dismissed, but they can be enormous catalysts and supports for innovation.

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Systems Thinking About Preparedness and Scaredness

March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1202 Views covid-19, healthcare, public health, stock and flow, system dynamics

Events like the COVID-19 pandemic provide us with examples of how to think about systems and why, when, and how

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Systems Perceiving

January 14, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 708 Views healthcare, hospitals, medicine, psychology, purpose, sketch map, systemic design, systems thinking, toolkit

System change requires we understand the perceptions of those in that system. Here’s a way to go about that and make change real, not just an idea #systemchange #systemsthinking #systemicdesign

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Dosing Innovation and Change

December 12, 2019December 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 771 Views case study, Coca Cola, design, drugs, entrepreneurship, evaluation, health innovation, healthcare, history, innovation, John Gargani, marketing, mix, scale, scaling impact

Just like with drugs, dosage and interactions matter with learning and innovation; it’s about amount, mix, and more. If you

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Innovation: The Simple Definition

October 28, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 882 Views adaptation, circular economy, design, evaluation, healthcare, printing press, sustainability, value

Innovation definitions can sometimes create more confusion than clarity. Looking at what it is and does can change that. Innovation

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Actions and the Language of Change

September 23, 2019September 23, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1106 Views behaviour change, change, design, eHealth, evaluation, health innovation, healthcare, innovation

Actions speak the language of change by making it visible. Talking about change shapes our actions, so let’s talk carefully.

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Leadership & Design Thinking: Missed Opportunities

February 26, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 812 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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Learning fails in bad systems

August 28, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 690 Views behaviour change, case study, continuing medical education, evaluation, healthcare, knowledge integration, knowledge management, knowledge transfer, learning, organizational design, organizational learning, organizational performance, organizational psychology, organizations, praxis, strategy, system design, systems, systems thinking

Enormous energy is spent on developing strategies to accomplish things with comparatively little paid to the systems that they are

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When More is Less: The Information Paradox

September 22, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 973 Views Barry Schwartz, Bill Nye, complexity, decision making, design, health systems, healthcare, information technology, Louis C.K., mobile phones, patient engagement, psychology, science, sensemaking, systems thinking, Tony Schwartz

There is a point at which information ceases to increase knowledge and understand and begins to undermine it, creating a

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Defining the New Designer

August 8, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 602 Views 3D printing, abductive reasoning, Andrew Heaton, Bruce Nussbaum, decision making, design, design education, Design Observer, design practice, design thinking, Dieter Rams, discipline, education, fashion, healthcare, Helen Walters, Herbert Simon, journalism, Mat Hunter, Mayo Clinic, Roger Martin, Rotman Designworks, Sir George Cox, training, transdisciplinary research, UK Design Council, university, UX

It’s been suggested that anyone who shapes the world intentionally is a designer, however those who train and practice as

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