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Transforming organisations – slides from the Agile2019 workshop in DC

A big thank you to everyone who came along to our workshop last week in Washington, DC. A whistle-stop hour-long session saw us sense-making – gathering about 80 experiences from people and signifying them on the walls (see the photos below), then visiting the Cynefin framework and talking about the Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 5 years20 August 2019 ago

Communications Narrative research SenseMaker Tools and techniques

Mrs Trellis, red-shirts and savings – the limits of text analysis

I’ve just finished Tim Harford‘s excellent Messy (paperback just out) alongside Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa‘s The Leopard and both have thrown up examples of phrases that brought a smile to my face and, along with an example from a conference earlier this year, highlight one of my concerns about automatic forms Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 6 years29 October 2017 ago

LG Communications: Public Sector Communications Academy

Communications Narrative Organisational culture

Narrative for Local Government – ahead of the LGComms conference

Tomorrow, I (Tony) am running a workshop on narrative in Leeds at the LGComms conference – looking forward to seeing some familiar faces and returning to a theme that I haven’t touched on in a few years. And in preparing today, I came across this blogpost from five years ago Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 7 years18 October 2017 ago

Communications Complexity Organisational culture

Resilience from weak links and acquaintances, not strong links and friends

A recent conversation with client-turned-friend Kecia Bertermann*, Monitoring and Learning Director at GirlEffect, prompted some thoughts around global social networks – something Kecia’s been working on generating for young girls in varying countries. While the focus is naturally towards creating friendship groups – strong local links in individuals’ networks – Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 7 years5 September 2017 ago

Communications Conference references Narrative SenseMaker

StratCom presentation slides – Partnership for Peace, 26th March 2015

As promised, here are the slides from last week’s presentation at the Partnership for Peace base in Ankara. The usual caveats apply – I’m not sure how much sense these make without my discussion over the top… Download 001 StratCom narrative presentation – March 2015

By Tony Quinlan, 9 years30 March 2015 ago

Communications Complexity Tools and techniques

Consulting on The Emperor’s new clothes

I've noticed I have a tendency to dismiss certain approaches, particularly newer ones that may not have a decent body of theory based on good science behind them, as "the Emperor's new clothes." For those who don't know the story, here's Danny Kaye to explain: (Yes, that's a cheap shot Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 10 years16 June 2014 ago

Communications Conference references Narrative

The real Mexico – getting past paranoia

It’s hard to believe it’s already been three weeks, but 19th-21st May, I was part of a conference in Mexico on Soft Power and Public Diplomacy with Wilton Park, a UK government-related agency that organises thought-provoking and timely conferences around international topics. The conference itself was excellent – a tribute Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 10 years11 June 2014 ago

Communications Narrative

Halting narratives

I'm off to Colombia next week for the latest element of a great project to look at entrepreneurial attitudes across the country – this trip is to present some interim findings, develop some experimental interventions that we'll monitor in the next phase of the project. I notice that friends in Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 10 years25 March 2014 ago

Communications

How do we draw attention to an absence?

Monday reflections on a fascinating previous week, including a great all-day session on Thursday with EU DIGIT, weaving together outputs from a SenseMaker® project, the Cynefin framework, safe-to-fail experiments and some methods from the Cognitive Edge trainings. (It's always good to work with a good team lead by a leader Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 10 years24 March 2014 ago

Communications Conference references Events Hints and tips Narrative

Design of Understanding 2014

Last Friday was the 2014 Design of Understanding day – a packed room at St Brides Library off Fleet Street, organised by the redoubtable Max Gadney of After the flood. He and I had come across each other in a hotel bar in Kigali, Rwanda when we were both working Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 10 years27 January 2014 ago

Communications

Corporate communication is a set of activities involved in managing and orchestrating all internal and external communications aimed at creating favourable point of view among stakeholders on which the company depends.