organizational learning

Tooling Up for Systemic Design & Learning

September 24, 2019September 24, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 446 Views complexity, innovation, learning, organizational learning, systemic design, toolkit

Innovation work requires a mindset, a skillset, and a toolset. The key is finding the right tools for the job.

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Complex problems and social learning

September 14, 2017September 14, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 612 Views education, goals, groups, knowledge exchange, knowledge management, learning, learning organization, organizational development, organizational learning, social, social networks

Adaptation, evolution, innovation, and growth all require that we gain new knowledge and apply it to our circumstances, or learn.

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Learning fails in bad systems

August 28, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 477 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

innovation

Acting on Failure or Failure to Act?

April 8, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 366 Views Acumen Fund, adaptive strategy, Amazon, Anders Ericsson, Apple, Ashoka, Cognitive Edge, complexity, developmental evaluation, evaluation, failure, Harvard Business Review, innovation, learning, Malcolm Gladwell, mindfulness, organizational change, organizational learning, social innovation, strategy

Who would have thought that failure would be held up as something to be desired just a few years ago?

Uncategorized

Indispensibility and Organizational Change

February 26, 2010 Cameron D. Norman 260 Views behaviour change, innovation, organizational change, organizational learning, Seth Godin, social innovation, systems change, systems thinking

Seth Godin‘s recent book throws out the challenge to its readers to be indispensable in the jobs that they do.

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eHealth and the Means-Ends Problem

September 19, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 276 Views eHealth, Facebook, health behaviour change, information technology, innovation, organizational learning, psychology, Twitter

Information technology provides a lot of ideas for how to change, but the tools are only one part of the equation. Without considering the culture in which these tools are used the change we want will not be the change we get.

education & learning systems science

Doing important things

July 30, 2009July 30, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 255 Views complexity, education, learning, organizational learning, Peter Senge, reflection, systems dynamics, systems thinking

Do important things with our lives: how can systems dynamics help?