Mindful Systems
The benefits of standing still and looking around at the systems around us never cease to reveal themselves. Mindfulness is something that is most often associated with individuals. Mindfulness is a...
View ArticleStorytelling in the Age of Twitter
Storytelling has been on my mind this week. Not the kind of stories that many of us had a children like those in Mother Goose, but rather the ones that we more often tell through chance encounters in...
View ArticleKnowledge translation in public health: Progress or doing the wrong things...
Knowledge translation has evolved from a term in relative obscurity to something that has become commonplace in much of the discussion on health care and public health. At its heart, knowledge...
View ArticleDesign Thinking or Design Thinking + Action?
There is a fine line between being genuinely creative, innovative and forward thinking and just being trendy. The issue is not a trivial one because good ideas can get buried when they become trendy,...
View ArticleEvaluating Social Innovation For Social Impact
How do the innovation letters line up? Earlier this week I has the pleasure of attending talks from Bryan Boyer from the Helsinki Design Lab and learning about the remarkable work they are doing in...
View ArticleA toolkit for toolsets, skillsets and a mindset
For the last few years Censemaking has been a forum for exploring ideas around complexity, systems, design and social innovation. It has been a space for ideas and considering some of social and...
View ArticleDevelopmental Evaluation and Complexity
Stitch of Complexity Developmental evaluation is an approach (much like design thinking) to program assessment and valuation in domains of high complexity, change, and innovation. These three terms are...
View ArticleMindful Systems
The benefits of standing still and looking around at the systems around us never cease to reveal themselves. Mindfulness is something that is most often associated with individuals. Mindfulness is a...
View ArticleStorytelling in the Age of Twitter
Storytelling has been on my mind this week. Not the kind of stories that many of us had a children like those in Mother Goose, but rather the ones that we more often tell through chance encounters in...
View ArticleKnowledge translation in public health: Progress or doing the wrong things...
Knowledge translation has evolved from a term in relative obscurity to something that has become commonplace in much of the discussion on health care and public health. At its heart, knowledge...
View ArticleDesign Thinking or Design Thinking + Action?
There is a fine line between being genuinely creative, innovative and forward thinking and just being trendy. The issue is not a trivial one because good ideas can get buried when they become trendy,...
View ArticleSame and Different
Our ability to affect change in organizations and systems is based heavily on our assumptions about similarities and differences between people. Unpacking and testing these assumptions require methods...
View ArticleA Different Kind of Herd Mentality
Principles of movement, speed, and position can render our traditional sensemaking approaches useless if we’re not careful. Think of the words we use to describe our connection to values or strategy —...
View ArticleThe Sense-making Winter
Winter provides a literal and metaphorical season ripe for sense-making if the other seasons are different Winter creates a natural opportunity to reflect. The cold weather, darkness, and general lack...
View ArticleThe Folly of Analytics in Strategy
More data does not always bring deeper insights, and the confusion between having good information, making a good decision, and taking the best action creates more folly than foresight. A strategy is...
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