Innovation Growth Lab: Making innovation and growth policy work from Nesta UK on Vimeo. The world of social innovation is filled with wonderful things and, like any creative space, has its share of myths. One of these is the role of experimentation. One view is that social innovation operates in such a space of complexity […]
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Our principal, Dr. Cameron Norman, was recently interviewed for University Affairs magazine on the topic of design thinking. Speaking with journalist Tim Johnson, Dr. Norman discussed what design and designers offer those seeking to tackle complex, thorny problems. [Dr Norman] notes that designers, especially product designers, are typically experts in conceptualizing problems and solving them– ideal skills
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Attractor mapping is a method that we’ve been developing at CENSE for the past two years. It is a method that brings together a variety of different concepts in the service of assessing where energy is spent within an organization and network. This complexity-oriented method seeks to draw our attention to where emergent phenomenon
This article draws on a piece originally shared as an invited post on the American Evaluation Association’s AEA365 blog. AEA365 is a daily blog that shares tips, tricks and resources for professional evaluators worldwide and is focused on complexity science for evaluators. Our work at Cense brings together complexity science and design together with developmental
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Ever had a problem that was complex, even wicked in nature? If so, this blog might be a place for you. Complex problems are ones that have multiple possible causes that often overlap, have time delays and involve many different forces, agents and circumstances. Some problems (like wicked ones) are barely solvable, but they can be
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