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complexity education & learning evaluation 

Learning As Our Outcome

April 23, 2020April 28, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1685 Views 3 Comments complexity, 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 public health research 

Survey Says What?

April 14, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 769 Views 0 Comments complexity, 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 social innovation Uncategorized 

Scaling Impact

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1992 Views complex 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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design design thinking psychology 

The Empathy Gap

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1063 Views behavioural economics, design research, design thinking, empathy, Jon Kolko, marketing, neuroscience, perception, psychology, Remembrance Day, research, Rory Sutherland, service design

Empathy is considered to be at the bedrock of good design. But what if how we’re thinking about empathy is

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education & learning innovation marketing 

Failure and Learning

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 583 Views complexity, evaluation, innovation, learning, measurement, net promoter score, research

Failure deals in absolutes while learning is about discovering possibility. Focusing on the former often leads us to miss the

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evaluation innovation psychology 

Deception and Labels

August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 645 Views demographics, failure, future of work, identity, innovation, label, measurement, psychology, research, work

Labels can shape the behaviour they describe, affecting our research. Knowing when labels describes or shapes actions makes a difference.

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evaluation innovation 

Developmental Evaluation is not for you

April 9, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 879 Views developmental evaluation, evaluation, innovation, research, strategy

Developmental evaluation is a powerful tool to support innovation, engaging communities, and foster deep learning. While it might be growing

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design thinking psychology research 

Elevating Design & Design Thinking

October 25, 2017October 25, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 625 Views design, Design Loft, design thinking, evaluation, George Miller, psychology, research

  Design thinking has brought the language of design into popular discourse across different fields, but it’s failings threaten to

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art & design complexity social systems systems thinking 

A Beautiful Idea

April 10, 2017April 10, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 482 Views attention, attractor, beauty, behaviour change, book, complexity, creativity, creators, design, emergence, organizational aesthetics, organizational psychology, path dependence, research, Steven De Groot

Is what you do, where you work, or how you organize, beautiful? Among the many words used to describe our

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behaviour change complexity public health social innovation 

Confusing change-making with actual change

May 3, 2016May 3, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 415 Views complexity, design, developmental evaluation, discovery, evaluation, health, innovation, New York Times, obesity, psychology, research, social change, social innovation, systems thinking

Change-making is the process of transformation and not to be confused with the transformed outcome that results from such a

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