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Beyond The Whiteboard & Sticky Notes

September 29, 2020September 29, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 892 Views 0 Comments design thinking, evaluation, impact, innovation, learning

Design thinking is much more than its tools. It’s time to look at what it actually does and how to go beyond the tools to see its real impact.

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Innovation: The Art and Science of Change Series

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 443 Views 0 Comments change, events, innovation, learning

Innovation can be quite the buzzword — but what does it actually mean in practice? What knowledge, skills and tools

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The More Things Change

September 14, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 409 Views 0 Comments evaluation, learning, measurement, system change

Aphorisms about change and stability abound and the truths they tell can set us free if we listen. We’ve all

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Innovation’s Fear Factor

September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 278 Views 0 Comments change, evaluation, fear, gaming, innovation, jane mcgonigal, learning, measurement, psychology

The fear of failure are reasons why our best work never sees the light of day ; gaming can make

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Sensemaking, Design and Innovation

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 304 Views 0 Comments complexity, covid-19, design thinking, innovation, learning, policy, public health, sensemaking, The RSA, tribes, wicked problems

We can’t change what we don’t understand and can’t understand what we can’t make sense of. Design is the discipline

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Learning’s Problems

August 27, 2020August 27, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 337 Views 0 Comments change, design practice, education, educational design, learning, professional education, psychological safety, workplace

Learning is the key to innovation and resilience and it also presents us with problems. Developmental evaluation, adaptive strategy, and

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Five Hundred

August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1028 Views 2 Comments design, design thinking, education, learning, psychology, self-care

Lessons learned from more than a decade of publishing Censemaking.

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To Teach, To Learn: How Committed Are We to Both?

August 11, 2020August 11, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 294 Views 0 Comments education, evaluation, higher education, learning, teachers, teaching, university

Our learning institutions are not set up for actual learning. Look at the costs and outcomes and we might design them differently.

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Not Working vs Wrong

July 24, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 573 Views 0 Comments complexity, decision making, goals, learning, organizational change, organizational development, organizational learning, organizational psychology, psychology, social psychology, systems thinking

Change is hard because our identities often depend on us being right, even when we are not. Understanding the myths we hold to can be a means to get past this and make real change and make it stick.

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Learning Myths & The Learner

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 572 Views design thinking, education, engagement, learning, psychology

The idea that we have a learning ‘style’ is a myth; let’s stop perpetuating it and engage learners instead. While

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