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Making Sense of Complexity: A Strategic Design Approach

Complexity, Design, Health Systems, Strategic Design / cense

In today’s health and service sector environment, leaders are facing more complexity than ever. From overlapping user needs and environmental disruptions to rapid policy changes and emerging technologies, it’s a lot to navigate. But complexity doesn’t have to be a roadblock—it can be an invitation to design smarter, more adaptive strategies. That’s where strategic design […]

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Developmental Evaluation and Strategy

Complexity, Research + Evaluation, Strategic Design / cense

When undertaking strategic planning for organizations operating in the complex space of health and human services, how do you account for creating meaningful ways to learn and adapt? Developmental Evaluation is how. Developmental Evaluation is a means to provide evaluative insight to guide the evolution of your program, but did you know it can be

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Monitoring for Motivation

Complexity, Design, Health Systems, Strategy, Toolkit / cense

Maintaining focus and motivation within many health and human service-sector roles can be difficult. Clients continue to show up with issues that demand care and attention often without the means for practitioners to follow-up afterwards. It can be demoralizing. It can also be a source of frustration and low performance (as well as a means

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Speed Versus Depth

Complexity, Design / cense

There are many threats to quality action and behaviour change, but the most persistent and pernicious of these is brevity. Speed and efficiency are two twins tied to productivity, value, and innovation. At least, in theory. We have yet to see any substantive value created from a fast, quick fix or rapid change initiative. Change

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Practical Systems Thinking: The Cynefin Framework

Complexity, Strategy, Toolkit / cense

The Cynefin Framework is among the most widely used frameworks for understanding how systems are organized. It might be the most practical means of bringing systems thinking to life. A system, after all, is simply an organization of things within some constraint or boundary. We rely on The Cynefin Framework (pronounced /kəˈnɛvɪn/ kuh-NEV-in) as a

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