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When Strategy Solutions Are Hidden in Plain Sight

January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 78 Views 0 Comments adaptive 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 709 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 800 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 505 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 1492 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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Systems Thinking About Time and Motion

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1187 Viewscomplexity, covid-19, Cynefin Framework, design-driven evaluation, design-driven-strategy, developmental evaluation, principles-focused evaluation, public health, time

In changing times its important to recognize both the words change and time if we want to understand systems. On

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Systems Thinking and Networks

March 20, 2020July 3, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1542 Viewscomplexity, covid-19, design, network theory, public health, social networks, systems thinking

The most visible systems lesson from virus spreads are related to networks if we know how to see them. In

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Systems Thinking About Action: Complexity

March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 2164 Viewscomplexity, complexity science, coordination, covid-19, Cynefin Framework, Dave Snowden, evaluation, learning, outbreak, pandemic, public health, Toronto Public Health, World Health Organization

The global pandemic situation has provided us with a lesson in complexity by giving us much to see, learn, and

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Systems Thinking About Preparedness and Scaredness

March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1830 Viewscovid-19, healthcare, public health, stock and flow, system dynamics

Events like the COVID-19 pandemic provide us with examples of how to think about systems and why, when, and how

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Better Systems Thinking

December 10, 2019February 24, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 1051 ViewsBob Williams, evaluation, public health, systems change, systems evaluation, systems thinking, tobacco control, toolkit

Systems thinking is essential for managing complexity – if done well. These guides for systems theory, practice, and evaluation can

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