Change Diagnosis Tools: Net Map
via netmap.wordpress.com In MSLOC and at Segal, I talk a lot about a designer or change agent's span of control and sphere of influence, and what that means in the process of designing change. Part of...
View Article10 Tactics: Information > Social-Activism
via informationactivism.org 10 Tactics provides original and artful ways for rights advocates to capture attention and communicate a cause. It includes a 50-minute film documenting stories from around...
View ArticleParenting Aikido and Designing for Redirection [JMO]
I vividly remember writing this blog post almost two years ago at my old blog. Since then I've been giving a lot of thought to how to design for redirection. Not change, but redirection. The...
View ArticleWitness: See it. Film it. Change it.
via witness.org The pioneers in using video to drive change. WITNESS uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. WITNESS empowers people to transform personal stories of abuse...
View ArticleSocial Innovator: Social Innovation Resource eXchange
via socialinnovator.info With a very lovely overview of some of the key elements in driving systemic social change...beautifully designed resource! There are a few drawbacks and a few obvious holes...
View ArticleStudying Patterns and Using Fieldwork To Improve Healthcare and Save Costs
via newyorker.com Another brilliant article by Atul Gawande on the fieldwork done by physician, Jeffrey Brenner, on improving health care and descreasing costs in Camden, New Jersey. Just like any...
View ArticleUsing Stories for Designing Change [JMO]
Back in 1999, I initiated a Global Stories project at Hewitt. The insight driving it was the observation about how contextual consulting and coaching knowledge was passed around the firm when it was...
View ArticleTangible Business Process Design
via stanford.edu From the DesignX Wiki at Stanford...physical, interactive, participatory and fun take on using objects for process redesign. Permalink | Leave a comment »
View ArticleIdeas Are Overrated: Startup Guru Eric Ries’ Radical New Theory
Photo: Robyn Twomey Everything you know about starting a company is wrong. At least that’s what Eric Ries says. The former entrepreneur has developed a counterintuitive strategy he calls the Lean...
View ArticleDesigning Innovation Diffusion - Pratt Design
via coroflot.com Elegant presentation of change management ideas... Permalink | Leave a comment »
View ArticleEvolution of a Model: Design and Change [JMO]
A little over a year ago, MSLOC Director Kimberly Scott asked me to co-create a class with the amazing Dorie Blesoff to prototype a new approach to integrating design methodologies with organizational...
View ArticleIllinois Raise Your Hand: Apples 2 Apples Project for CPS Parents
I haven't been around much because all of my free time is tangled up with a new project that launched about two months ago. Mashing up data, research, design, multidisciplinary collaboration and...
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