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Doing Nothing: An Innovation Paradox

July 14, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 826 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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Amplification and Impact

December 5, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 908 Views 5G technology, AI, business, change, communication, complexity, data, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, feedback, innovation, learning, marketing, marketing complexity, mobile phones, Pareto distribution, Peloton, sensemaking, social media, technology, transformation

Transformations are easier to understand retrospectively, not in real time. New technologies are about to upend that, forever. It is

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Evolutionary Innovation: How We Transform

October 7, 2019October 7, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 907 Views biology, developmental design, evolutionary innovation, innovation, learning, transformation

Innovation is often portrayed as dramatic, disruptive processes and outcomes. That perception might be keeping us from making real transformations.

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Same and Different

June 10, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 985 Views basketball, culture, data, ethnography, health, organizational change, research methods, sleep, sport, Toronto, toronto raptors, transformation

Our ability to affect change in organizations and systems is based heavily on our assumptions about similarities and differences between