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Strategy as Design — Principles for Adaptive Leadership

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In today’s complex environment, traditional strategic planning often fails. Cense advocates for strategic design, prioritizing coherence and adaptability. This approach emphasizes humility, inquiry, and agility in leadership, covering four pillars: intent, imagination, production, and learning. It fosters responsive systems that align people and processes while promoting ongoing learning and engagement.

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Beyond Traditional Evaluation: How Design-Driven Developmental Evaluation Transforms Innovation

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Cense’s approach combines design-driven evaluation with strategic innovation, recognizing that innovation in complex systems requires adaptive learning. By embedding evaluation throughout the innovation process, organizations can continuously capture insights, adapt strategies, and enhance learning. This integrated methodology fosters resilience, ensuring effective responses to challenges in dynamic environments.

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Strategy as Conversation

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A great strategy is designed. This means it was planned, implemented, and evaluated in ways that are aligned with the vision of the organization. Poor strategy neglect some or all of this. We’ve seen many strategies poorly planned, not implemented, never evaluated and misaligned with the values and vision of the organization. However, because we

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Note-Taking for Learning and Innovation

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Do your notes bore you? They shouldn’t if you’re serious about learning. Note-taking is among the most powerful, accessible, and portable means to support innovation and learning. Yet, most of us do it poorly. Do you review your notes after you take them? Do you know why you are taking notes in the first place?

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Developmental Evaluation, Learning and Innovation

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What does it mean to undertake a developmental evaluation (DE)? DE is simply another way to say evaluation for learning and innovation. That’s really all it is in practice, although anyone looking to do DE might want to look a little closer to see if it really is the right approach for them. In this

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