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Practical Systems Thinking: Working Definitions

May 17, 2022May 17, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 154 Views 1 Comment complexity, learning, psychology, systems thinking

Systems Thinking is a field that brings many different perspectives on science, philosophy, sociology and design, and while this diversity

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design toolkit 

Organizational Healing By Design

April 4, 2022April 4, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 209 Views 1 Comment design, Design Helix, design thinking, empathy, evaluation, health, health and wellbeing, health promotion, learning, sensemaking, wellbeing

Whether it is our organizations, teams or ourselves we need to heal. What’s made this such a complicated challenge is

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Tricks with Tips

January 31, 2022January 31, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 260 Viewsbehavioural science, complexity, design, design thinking, designer, evaluation, innovation, learning, new years resolutions, psychology, strategy, toolkit

The proliferation of ‘tips and tricks’ for boosting change-making and innovation efforts obscures the craft and commitment that transformation requires.

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What is Evaluation? (And Why You Should Care)

January 27, 2022January 27, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 610 Viewsdesign, evaluation, impact, innovation, learning

Evaluation is a term that requires some rehabilitation. The term isn’t incorrect or outdated, just poorly understood and not much

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Lessons Taught, Learned, Forgotten, and Ignored

January 18, 2022January 18, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 344 Viewsattention, cognition, complexity, complexity theory, covid-19, decision making, design, education, information, information design, information overload, learning, learning design, psychology, systems thinking, time

It’s easy to say a lesson was learned and far more difficult to show it to be true. What can

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Strategy as Service Design

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 2040 Viewsadaptive strategy, design methods, design research, design thinking, foresight, innovation, learning, service design, strategy

What if we viewed our strategy as a vehicle for shaping our services rather than the other way around? By

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design innovation 

Improving Our Innovation Definitions

November 24, 2021November 24, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 393 Viewscomplexity, creativity, definition, design, design thinking, evaluation, imagination, innovation, learning

It’s remarkable how a term can grow and change over time and that is no less true for the term

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Changemaking: Got Skills?

November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 581 Viewsarchitecture, behaviour change, censemaking, design, evaluation, innovation, james donison, learning, Marty Neumeier, psychology, skill

You might know what you’re doing, but do you have the means to put that knowledge into practice? Could the

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innovation 

Innovation and Maintenance: A Book Review

October 18, 2021October 18, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 386 Viewsbook, book review, creativity, design, design thinking, innovation, learning, maintenance, sustainability

Lee Vinsel and Andrew Russell are leading voices in arguing for a bigger place for maintaining things in this world

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Conference Season Here Again: What Have We Learned?

October 16, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 420 Viewschange, education, knowledge translation, learning, teaching

The autumn tends to be a time when many organizations hold conferences and this year is no different. What is

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Design’s Inspiring Possibility

May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 0 Comments

A new documentary profiles the life and perspective of Bruce Mau, a designer who had contributed more to my passion

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Systems Thinking Practice: Starting Out

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Design and the Cautionary Tales of Path Dependence

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