A Mindful New Year
What is mindfulness and why should we be paying attention to it in our individual and organizational work in health systems? This post explores that very question.
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The Science of Design & the Design of Science
If design is to make a leap beyond niche market situations, a new field must dawn within design + science and that is the science of design and the design of science.
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Coffee Culture and Ideas: A Need for A Break
As the holidays approach, the days get shorter, and the number of demands increase, I am reminded about the benefits of coffee beyond the warmth it brings and how, with time (and maybe a little sugar), it can do wonders to stoke innovation.
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The Face-to-Face Complexity of eHealth & Knowledge Exchange
Using complexity science principles to guide the process and powered by social media and face-to-face engagement, the power to take what we know, contextualize it, and transform it into something we can act on seems to me the best way forward in dealing with problems of chronic disease that are so knotted and pervasive, yet demand rapid responses.
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More Design Thinking & Evaluation
Design thinking includes principles that demand inclusion of multiple perspectives on the problem, collaborative ideation, and purposeful wandering through a subject matter. It’s time to fit to evaluation has come.
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Design Thinking & Evaluation
What a design-oriented approach to evaluation does is greatly enhance the participant’s sense of the whole, what the needs and desires and fears both parties are dealing with, not just the executive or rational elements. More importantly, this strategy looks at how these different components might interact by simulating a condition in which they might play out.
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Time and Chance Doesn’t Happen to Us All
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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The Complexity and Peril of Either/Or Thinking in Systems and Social Media
Malcolm Gladwell recently authored an article for the New Yorker that has been widely circulated and debated within the social media world. The piece, entitled Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted, takes the stance that Twitter and other social media tools are not much better at facilitating social change than the coffee
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The Complex Adaptive (Education) System
Education is a complex adaptive system, but the current opportunities for transformation in education are being limited by a desire to limit creativity and increase bureaucracy. This is explored.
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Over Educated and Under Developed For Innovation
This past week I had the true privilege of attending a High Table Dinner with some of the University of Toronto’s future leaders from Trinity College. The guests, some faculty, but mostly students, came from many different disciplines and ranged from first year undergrads to doctoral students who were well on their way in their
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