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The Design of Well-Being in Practice

June 8, 2022June 8, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 158 Views 2 Comments complexity, culture of well-being, design, design for emergence, design for humans, design thinking, learning, organizational development, organizational learning, psychology, public health, well-being

In this final series on designing for well-being, we look at the application of a design framework to achieving the

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Framing Design for Well-Being

June 6, 2022June 7, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 173 Views 0 Comments design, design thinking, health, health promotion, public health, well-being, wellbeing

Design frameworks allow us to frame issues like well-being and focus our efforts in the directions to help create spaces to foster it.

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Repairing Our Broken Assumptions About Change-Making

May 9, 2022May 27, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 320 Views 1 Comment behaviour change, behavioural science, complexity, emergence, innovation, Margaret Wheatley, public health

Much of what we believe about behaviour change is based on myth, fallacies, and some poor science and yet these

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Organizational Cultures of Well-Being

May 3, 2022May 3, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 258 Views 2 Comments complexity, design, health, health promotion, innovation, organizational development, organizational learning, public health, wellbeing

Organizations large and small are starting to re-assemble back in offices and considering what kind of culture they want to

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Policy Design For Human Behaviour

March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 385 Viewsdesign, health, policy, public health, systems thinking

Policies are meant to guide human behaviour and introduce constraints at a collective level and that means understanding how humans

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When Strategy Solutions Are Hidden in Plain Sight

January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 311 Viewsadaptive strategy, complexity, covid-19, design, innovation, principles, public health, strategy

The COVID-19 pandemic and its effects provide a perfect example of similarity and difference in strategy, outcome, and impact. Are

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The Folly of Foresight

September 17, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 861 Viewsamy webb, behaviour change, behavioural design, behavioural science, covid-19, design-strategy, futures, human-centred design, nudge, psychology, public health, strategic foresight

Seeing the road ahead isn’t the same as doing something to get there: it’s a lesson that foresight and strategy

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Sensemaking, Design and Innovation

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1033 Viewscomplexity, 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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Mistaken Expertise

September 3, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 598 Viewschange leadership, coaching, covid-19, evaluation, leadership, public health

When we confuse expertise in one thing with another we risk distrusting experts altogether and losing what they bring. An

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Unprecedented: Living Complexity

April 2, 2020April 2, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1659 ViewsCognitive Edge, complex adaptive systems, complexity, complexity theory, covid-19, Cynefin Framework, economics, public health, systemic design

‘Unprecedented’ is a term that is changing how we understand complexity and foresight. One thing that often makes complex situations

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