strategic foresight

behaviour change complexity evaluation psychology 

Change Stumbling

January 8, 2020January 8, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 180 Views 0 Comments adaptive strategy, change, design thinking, developmental evaluation, evaluation, Judo, motivation, movement, new year's resolutions, Parkour, psychology, strategic foresight, willpower

Change-making requires accepting some degree of failure. How we deal with our stumbles determines how or whether we succeed. If

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innovation strategic foresight Toolkit 

Alberta’s Innovation Advantage

November 8, 2019November 8, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 482 Views 0 Comments Alberta, Canada, design thinking, homelessness, innovation, oil, public policy, social policy, strategic foresight, systemic design, toolkit

The Canadian province of Alberta has a reputation for fostering innovation. From strategic foresight to systemic design this reputation is

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innovation 

Innovation to Your Inbox

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 370 Views communication, design, design thinking, evaluation, innovation, marketing, newsletter, organizational change, psychology, social media, strategic foresight, systems thinking

Of the many ways to reach people, email still works. Sometimes innovation is best doing new things with old tools.

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business innovation systems thinking 

An Organizing Framework for Innovation

September 10, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 518 Views culture of innovation, design, design thinking, developmental design, developmental evaluation, innovation, innovation ecosystem, strategic foresight, strategy, systems thinking

Innovation requires the right organizing, not just skill and vision. This article explores what that means in practice.

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strategic foresight 

Riding the waves of resilience

August 19, 2019August 19, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 613 Views complexity, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, foresight evaluation, service design, strategic foresight, strategy, system design, systems thinking

Big shakeups happen in work, life, and the economy regularly. Navigating these waves of change well requires forethought and foresight.

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behaviour change psychology strategic foresight 

Getting Out of Our Heads

August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 496 Views art, beauty, behaviour change, cognition, cognitive science, H.L. Mencken, health behaviour change, health psychology, John Wenger, Leonardo da Vinci, organizational aesthetics, psychology, sociodrama, strategic foresight, strategy, theory

Too much change psychology focuses on the way we think. Sometimes creating change requires we get out of our heads.

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behaviour change complexity psychology 

Foreseeing the Unpossible

December 2, 2016December 3, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 236 Views Brexit, Carl Jung, cognitive psychology, difference, Donald Trump, innovation, moral psychology, OCADU, politics, psychodynamic theory, psychology, racism, social psychology, social science, strategic foresight, Syrian refugees, unpossible

Change may be the only constant and, beyond wet babies, few of us welcome it. Foresight is about looking ahead

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behaviour change complexity design thinking social systems systems thinking Uncategorized 

Ethics and Systemic Change

July 5, 2016July 5, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 460 Views Boris Johnson, Brexit, Cognitive Edge, community psychology, complexity, conscious creation, David Cameron, design, design thinking, design-driven-strategy, Europe, OCADU, Peter Jones, politics, strategic foresight, systemic design, systems change, United Kingdom

Systems change is a goal for many social advocates — whether aimed at politics, climate change, social norms or beyond

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innovation strategic foresight 

Innovation Framing

May 17, 2016May 17, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 239 Views design, framing, innovation, strategic foresight

Innovation is easier to say than to do. One of the reasons is that a new idea needs to fit within

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environment systems science systems thinking 

Systems thinking and the simple plan

January 12, 2016January 12, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 182 Views boundaries, CENSE Research + Design, city building, complexity, developmental evaluation, evaluation, foresight, foresight methods, Michael Quinn Patton, planning, scale, strategic foresight, systems thinking, Toronto, urbanism

  Planning is something that is done all the time, but the shape in which these plans unfold is often

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