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Unprecedented: Living Complexity

April 2, 2020April 2, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 346 Views 0 Comments Cognitive 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 412 Views 0 Comments complexity, 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, 2020March 20, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 368 Views 0 Comments complexity, 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 616 Views 0 Comments complexity, 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 752 Views 0 Comments covid-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, 2019December 10, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 591 Views Bob 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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The Ecology of Innovation: Part 2 – Language

October 2, 2015October 2, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 423 Views cancer control, communication, health communication, health promotion, innovation, innovation ecology, knowledge exchange, knowledge integration, knowledge translation, mindfulness, organizational mindfulness, public health, research, sensemaking, social innovation

Although Innovation is about producing value through doing something new or different than before, the concept is far from simple

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The Power, Peril and Promise of Health Journalism

February 14, 2015 Cameron D. Norman 700 Views anti-vaccination, Ben Goldacre, CBC Radio, Gardasil HPV vaccine, health reporting, journalism, Julia Belluz, knowledge translation, media ecology, medical evidence, medicine, newspapers, public health, science, the fourth estate, The Guardian, Toronto Star, vaccines

The Toronto Star, Canada’s most widely read newspaper known for its investigative reporting gifted anti-vaccination audiences armament by using poor

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Seeing the lights in research with our heads in the clouds

July 11, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 694 Views communications, complexity, eHealth, evaluation, medicine, public health, research, social innovation, social media

Some fields stagnate because they fail to take the bold steps into the unknown by taking chances and proposing new

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The New Zombie

October 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 400 Views CDC, Clay Shirky, complex systems, contemplative inquiry, design thinking, Facebook, John Bohannon, journalism, metacognition, mindfulness, mobile phones, organizational change, public health, research, resilience, science, social media, systems thinking, The Economist, tribes, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, zombie

Information is everywhere (and if you live in cities, people might be everywhere, too) and yet the volume of information we see is overwhelmed by what we do not see. Zombies are among us like information and because of that information might be less attuned to what is going on around them. This has enormous consequences and most of it is not good.

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