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What are your intentions in reading this?

It all built the market, I believed that part of Narrate’s USP was the perspective I brought to the work – and that at worst it meant that I had a spur to continue to be innovative and coming up with the next thing to keep ahead of the magpies. … I say this, not to accuse, but to give voice to a disquiet I have in sharing some of the practice I’ve developed – I want to talk about some elements I’ve found really useful in SenseMaker® – but I find I’m reluctant to share and that I am disappointed to find myself being guarded and considering my words and thoughts more carefully.

By Tony Quinlan, 10 years10 March 2014 ago

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Two signposts for Cognitive Edge materials, one for Design of Understanding

A quick one today – I’m still catching up after last week’s lightning-trip to Kyrgyzstan. (Landing at 0330 on Thursday morning and leaving for the airport at 0530 on Saturday morning, with two full days of travelling at either end does not, I’ve learned, enhance my productivity…) Two things at Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 10 years21 January 2014 ago

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Learning SenseMaker

I’m in Antrim, Northern Ireland tomorrow, working with a bunch of smart people who are using SenseMaker to understand patients’ experience of healthcare across the region – it’s called the 10,000 Voices project. We met a few months ago, when I ran a one-day introduction to the principles of SenseMaker, Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 10 years16 December 2013 ago

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Here, There and Everywhere – SenseMaker in Eurasia

Narrative research being run by the UNDP across Eurasia is providing useful insights to new programmes and activities. Using SenseMaker, new projects are about to be rolled out in Kyrgystan, Belarus and Georgia.

By Tony Quinlan, 10 years31 October 2013 ago

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The Three … Musketeers? Little Pigs? Stooges? Together in London

Further to yesterday's post about the upcoming courses with Cognitive Edge, diaries have worked out such that Washington DC (Details here) will be a two-handed affair with myself and Dave Snowden teaching, while London (Details here)will be a unique one – three different presenters: Dave, Michael Cheveldave and myself passing Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 10 years29 October 2013 ago

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Rwanda re-visited – visuals of conference pieces

I’ve just been reminded of the great visuals from my recent talks at the Girl Learning Summit in Rwanda. A fabulous event, run by the Girl Effect University team from the Nike Foundation. I was lucky to be talking and introducing the Girl Research Unit – six young Rwandan women Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 11 years24 August 2013 ago

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Patterns of voices from the Balkans – working with UNDP

The past couple of days, therefore, has been an interim stage – the first workshop and subsequent work was about getting narrative projects designed and collection started, this workshop was about starting to understand what the narrative was revealing and how to use it with different groups to engage and move to actions. … One of the many reasons I like using SenseMaker® is that, while it starts as a research tool in its initial stages, the real potential lies once we’ve gathered material – then it can morph into a monitoring system, knowledge-sharing facilitator, learning tool, innovation catalyst and much more.

By Tony Quinlan, 11 years12 June 2013 ago

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Giants’ shoulders

As a result of teaching on the new Cynefin course this week, I’m re-thinking a couple of things that I’ve put at the centre of my practice recently. One of the core points that I’ve emphasised over the years in projects understanding audiences has been the dangers of relying too Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 11 years13 May 2013 ago

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The App is landing – collecting stories though apps in Rwanda

We’re preparing for a bigger project later in the year, but the past few days have been getting some of the team up to speed and testing how we’re going to gather the narratives. Field collection of narrative is always fun – we were doing it on paper in Bangladesh before Christmas and previous projects have seen it done via websites, voice recorders and laptops.

By Tony Quinlan, 11 years27 March 2013 ago

Cognitive Edge Complexity Recommendations

First, do no harm…

For example, I sat watching a group looking at intervening in a natural disaster situation – extremely effective, intelligent people coming up with interventions that would be “safe”: funding local villages to find their own water (on the basis that they may know about natural resources, but didn’t have the wherewithal to transport it). … The upshot is that, for all the fear of the “f-word”, safe-to-fail probes are relatively simple to produce: Do no harm Make them low-resource Make them situation-relevant (much easier if you have narrative material coming in) Monitor them Increase the diversity of people looking at the problem

By Tony Quinlan, 11 years19 November 2012 ago

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