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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What is innovation? The term is everywhere, but what does it actually mean to innovate? The lexical root of innovation is nouvos, or new. The Oxford English Dictionary defines innovation as: innovation |ˌinəˈvāSHən| noun the action or process of innovating. • a new method, idea, product, etc.: technological innovations designed to save energy. Wikipedia, always
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2013/05 Seth Godin | Backwards from CreativeMornings on Vimeo. One of the most remarkable tools we have is the Internet powered by personal computers or tablets. There is nothing that generates more power to transform than these two tools taken together. When you step back and notice, it’s easy to see how these tools create
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Following our last post on defining design, here are some of the definitions currently in use to describe design thinking. There are far fewer examples of what design thinking is and many examples of what it is not. Perhaps this is one of the reasons design thinking is often contested in various circles. > Design
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