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Space, Place, & Creativity

July 21, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 813 Views beauty, design, design thinking, innovation, organizational aesthetics, organizational design, Steven De Groot, workspace

The way we design our spaces and think about them shape what happens in them. We look at four ideas for how to innovate better in space.

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Learning fails in bad systems

August 28, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 1101 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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Smart goals or better systems?

July 19, 2017December 1, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1967 Views adaptive strategy, creativity, decision making, evaluation, goals, impact, innovation, measurement, organizational design, organizational development, performance measurement, program evaluation, social change, systems thinking

If you’re working toward some sort of collective goals — as an organization, network or even as an individual —

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Three Lessons From Summer Vacation

September 7, 2016February 24, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 799 Views Andrew Knight, art, beauty, Brexit, complexity, design, environment, John Wenger, Mark Rothko, organizational aesthetics, organizational design, psychology, Silwood Group, sociodrama, Steven De Groot

This year I took a summer holiday — something I’ve not done in years — and was reminded what literally stepping

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Social Media and Health: Leaders(hip) and Followers(hip)

May 18, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 993 Views complexity, creativity, design thinking, developmental design, developmental evaluation, eHealth, evaluation, Facebook, health, health promotion, healthcare, innovation, medicine, organizational change, organizational design, public health, social media, systems thinking

Systems thinking, design thinking, developmental evaluation, creativity, networks and innovation: these are the keywords for health in the coming years. They are as author Eric Topol calls the dawning of the creative destruction of medicine. The public is already using social media for health and now the time has come for health (care, promotion and protection) systems to get on board and make the changes necessary to join them.

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Behaviour and Bodies, Systems and Design

February 20, 2011 Cameron D. Norman 404 Views biological systems, bodies, design, Fascial Stretch Therapy, health, health care, organizational design, systems thinking, yoga

Drawing connections between our bodies and our behaviour reveals systems thinking in new ways that can lend themselves to contemplating greater ways to consider the relationship between design and its consequences on human health.