Contrarian, Spiritual, Strategic Innovation
We often speak of social innovation as if we’re applying the principles of business and product innovation to a social product. However, there are significant differences in how we treat service...
View ArticleMac people are friendly, but are Macs?
I often make a simple argument on behalf of the Windows (7) system, which I advocate as significantly more usable than the Mac OSX. And yes, I use both, regularly. I like the idea of just listing a...
View ArticlePath Dependency of Innovation Platforms
In Creation Myth, Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker article, we get an in-depth telling of the original story of how Steve Jobs gained access to Xerox PARC’s Alto project and re-engineered the concept for...
View ArticleSocial systems design for complex services : A workshop
What are the deep drivers of your problem system? Social systems design for complex services I’m holding a workshop this week on dialogic design at Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Their unique...
View ArticleThe Unintended Consequences of Uncaring Automation
I’m completing the final sections of the manuscript for the two-year project researching and writing the Rosenfeld Media book Design for Care. A central theme weaving together the 8 chapters is...
View ArticleApple’s Insanely Great Business Strategy
Fast Company online presents an infodense infographic on Apple’s Macintosh product evolution and its fit to long-term business strategy. “And then Steve Jobs came back. Sure, he refocused the company...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Occupation?
We have been working with Occupy Toronto for a few weeks now, and have even ramped up the engagement since the camp came down mid-week. Grad students and even president Sara Diamond from OCAD...
View ArticleDesigning a Future for our Future
You know the Singularity is coming. Get ready for The Multiplicity. The workshop entices participants to co-create a future in collaboration as an act of personal foresight. We take on the creation of...
View ArticleWhat Jaron said …
Today’s New York Times places Jaron Lanier as a central voice contra-pundit to the extremes of discourse in the SOPA/PIPA copyright controversies. I’ve posted my thoughts directly in response to other...
View ArticleSystemic Design for Health Services Innovation
Systemic Design for Health Services Innovation Presentation at Frontier of Service Systems Science 2012, Tokyo Institute of Technology, February 23, 2012 Healthcare as an industry faces multiple crises...
View ArticleScholarly Publishing – Where is the Value Realized?
Now that Elsevier has withdrawn its support for the Research Works Act, it will be interesting to see if the academic boycott goes “full Occupy” on Elsevier (and other publishers) or recognizes that...
View ArticleFuture Shock 3.0
(Or is it just in the spirit of Global Future Day, March 1st? Not the best day to have chosen IMO.) Future Shock 1.0 foresaw the 1970′s oil and geo-political shocks, and let’s say 2.0 was...
View ArticleIs Online Civil Participation Sufficient to the Institutional Crisis?
My last post left off with “We have experience and world-class methods that reliably achieve consensus in social systems to organize stakeholder commitment. The next missing step then is the courage...
View ArticleWikipedia – The Sound of a Million Monkeys Typing
Britannica finally shut down its print version, and of course pundits blamed Wikipedia. They might have blamed Britannica online, which you can search for free and read longer pieces. Just like...
View ArticleSame As It Ever Was
We have been in the same global mega-crisis for 50 years now. Two proposals were presented to the Club of Rome in 1969. The board selected the System Dynamics modeling project of the World Model, with...
View ArticleStrategic Foresight for Building Civilization 2.0
Seeing and Shaping Our future: Becoming Better Agents of Change and Transformation Several grad students and faculty from OCADU Strategic Foresight & Innovation engaged in this two-day workshop...
View ArticleDesign for Health Journeys: Rethinking the Many Points of Care
How can design facilitate better encounters and outcomes for those navigating healthcare systems? An Explorations event at Strategic Innovation Lab Monday, April 30, 2012 – 5:00pm – 7:00pm Healthcare...
View ArticleTechnology Will Not Save Healthcare
The near term (Horizon 2) promises exciting and provocative proposals for the envisioned role of emerging technology in health services. Personalized medication. Concierge medical advising for the...
View ArticleA collective failure of moral imagination?
Let’s summarize this week’s headlines with an eye toward the moral hazard now acceptable in every consequential context. The Masters of the Universe have disavowed risk entirely, so, apparently, are we...
View ArticleISSS 2012: Systemic Design Languages
I recently returned from San Jose where I participated in a deeply engaging ISSS 2012, the annual meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences organized by outgoing president (and...
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