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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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Business approaches for “complex” problems

With Andrew Moore at DAV Management, I’ve written a piece recently: “New approaches to ‘big’ problems“. Edited with copy of the article, as it’s no longer available from DAV Management. New Approaches To Big Problems It’s a business piece talking about how new complexity-based approaches can offer major benefits in terms Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 13 years31 March 2011 ago

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European capacity for sensemaking and complexity

We’re building European capacity for our clients and our projects! I’m delighted to make the official announcement that UK-based Narrate and Netherlands-based Top Innosense are partnering to create the sense-making capability that can support the projects that we’re seeing across Europe. With experts like Harold, Ton, Erwin and Aart-Jan, we’re Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 13 years23 March 2011 ago

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Over-simplifying the cutbacks

Reduced budgets are producing some interesting approaches to the necessary decisions to be made. A recent visit to the Blackberry Clinic in Milton Keynes showed me one of them: it turns out that the local PCT, having to cut budgets by a substantial percentage, had gone for the simple approach Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 13 years8 March 2011 ago

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The joy of “No”

I ran an innovation session recently for a client's senior management team that featured an exercise that a lot of people shy away from. There is a great tendency for lots of people to stress positivity – building on ideas, reducing criticism, etc. I can understand that – but it's Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 13 years3 March 2011 ago

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More on Global giving

The other week, while researching this post, I came across some fantastic additional resources stemming from the GlobalGiving project. This video is great Even better yet, the GlobalGiving team have been very generous in putting up a complete overview of the project – from how they worked, to how they Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 13 years25 January 2011 ago

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Rules should define the space, not fill it

John Kay's column in the Financial Times today chimes with a quote that struck me recently: "Rules are good. They define the edges of things" It made me think, specifically, about how rules are used in different domains of Dave Snowden's Cynefin framework. In the Simple (Known) domain, rules dominate Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 13 years12 January 2011 ago

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Practicalities and applications – SenseMaker in application

Two great sessions last week at the QEII Conference Centre with Dave Snowden of Cognitive Edge. The shift from theory to practical application of new management techniques based on principles of complexity, cognitive neuroscience, anthropology and others has been remarkably swift in recent years – and even for those who’ve Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 13 years12 November 2010 ago

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Get the story straight – Storytelling in Communications 1

The opening gambit of more than one past client project has been “help us get our story straight”. Sometimes it’s just that – the general story – sometimes it’s something specific: “help us get our customer story straight”, “our story on leadership”. It’s an interesting starting point, but demands a Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 13 years26 October 2010 ago

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Seminar workshop: Practical approaches to intractable problems

I mentioned this on Wednesday. Details are finalised: Practical approaches to intractable problems Prof Dave Snowden, Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge Thursday 4th November, 9.30-12.30; 1.30-4.30, QEII Conference Centre In recent years, techniques and tools are making it possible to exploit complexity and anthropological approaches to solving intractable problems – Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 14 years21 October 2010 ago