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Doing Nothing: An Innovation Paradox

July 14, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 755 Views chaos, complexity, decision making, design, innovation, Michael Quinn Patton, principles, principles-focused evaluation, strategy, systems, systems thinking, Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement, transformation

Strategy in chaos is like whitewater rafting — it needs stillness among the motion. Sometimes the best transformation and boldest action is doing nothing.

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Learning fails in bad systems

August 28, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 991 Views behaviour change, case study, continuing medical education, evaluation, healthcare, knowledge integration, knowledge management, knowledge transfer, learning, organizational design, organizational learning, organizational performance, organizational psychology, organizations, praxis, strategy, system design, systems, systems thinking

Enormous energy is spent on developing strategies to accomplish things with comparatively little paid to the systems that they are

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The hidden cost of learning & innovation

February 8, 2016February 8, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 794 Views complexity, context, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, knowledge integration, knowledge management, learning organization, sensemaking, systems, time

The costs of books, materials, tuition, or conference fees often distort the perception of how much learning costs, creating larger distortions

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Social (non) Sense-making

February 7, 2010 Cameron D. Norman 610 Views chaos theory, communication, complexity, complexity theory, edge of chaos, education, learning, philosophy, psychology, social learning, social media, social networks, systems, teaching

What is true in the world of social media and decision making is a matter of interpretation. However that interpretation, often off-loaded to others in crowdsourcing models, might not work well when strong ties are needed to foster quality decisions.

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e(un)Health

August 25, 2009August 25, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 483 Views communication, eHealth, health, ICT, information overload, information technology, psychology, systems, time poverty, wellbeing

Is the ‘e’ part of eHealth working at cross purposes with our wellbeing? The speed, volume and complexity of information online and the myriad ways we access such information may be leading to new types of illnesses and problems as it solves others.

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Censemaking

February 22, 2009July 29, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 447 Views complexity, food, health, public health, systems, wellness

What is censemaking and why is it here?