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Great Expectations and Change-Making

January 4, 2022January 4, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 305 Viewsbehaviour change, censemaking, evaluation, expectation, innovation, perception, placebo, podcast, psychology, research

What we see or choose to see has a profound effect on what we do and achieve. Choose wisely. The

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psychology systems thinking 

Climate Changes

August 10, 2021August 10, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 567 Viewsbehaviour change, climate change, conservation, design, design thinking, environment, innovation, psychology, research, science, systems thinking

Our future depends on our ability to change how we see ourselves and the world and act on it —

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design 

Design for Human Living

June 1, 2021June 1, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 630 Viewsbehaviour change, complexity, creativity, design, design thinking, evaluation, innovation, psychology, research, strategy, systems thinking

Our designs put too much focus on our intentions and desires and to the neglect our realities and tendencies. Design

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psychology systems thinking 

A Different Kind of Herd Mentality

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 597 Viewsbehavioural science, complexity, design, research, research methods

Principles of movement, speed, and position can render our traditional sensemaking approaches useless if we’re not careful. Think of the

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design evaluation 

Doing Our Homework on our Research

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 652 Viewscovid-19, design research, research, service design

Checking our assumptions about basic things could be the difference between design delight and doom. If you were to tell

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psychology systems thinking 

Middle Ground

September 21, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 708 Viewscomplexity, illusion, perception, psychology, research, systems thinking

When ideas and opinions push to the extreme finding where the middle ground is becomes an innovation challenge. Darling I

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design innovation 

Time for Design Thinking to Grow Up

August 6, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1070 Viewsdesign, design science, design thinking, evaluation, evidence, research, social psychology, theory

Design thinking is ready to evolve to the next stage with evidence, case studies, definitions and theories. We look at the current state of the science, art, and practice.

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Learning As Our Outcome

April 23, 2020April 28, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 2844 Viewscomplexity, covid-19, evaluation, evaluative thinking, innovation, learning, research

You knew it would come . This week we started to see accusations and conflict peek through what had been

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evaluation health 

Survey Says What?

April 14, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1725 Viewscomplexity, covid-19, evaluation, health, perception, research, survey, VUCA

Our data collection efforts during a time of VUCA are impaired by not only our methods, but our sense of what is actually happening.

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evaluation innovation 

Scaling Impact

November 19, 2019January 23, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 3055 Viewscomplex adaptive systems, complex innovation, complexity, Geoffrey West, IDRC, innovation, John Gargani, lean methodology, research, Santa Fe Institute, scaling, scaling impact, science, social innovation, systems thinking

‘Achieving scale’ might be the golden goose of social innovation. It’s a simple phrase, but its meaning and misunderstanding is

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