SenseMaker is a software tool developed by Cognitive Edge which integrates decision support, research, monitoring and knowledge management.
A short blog today – there’s a longer one that’s half-written about how we might build a framework for common central monitoring of multiple local projects, but that needs a little more teasing out and work to make it mroe practical. So today, the perfect lead-in – another new project Read more…
When you’re presented with lots of excellent examples of people’s experience (the Northern Ireland 10,000 Voices project has already gathered 1100 examples of patients’ experiences), the temptation is still to read them all, and act quickly on the ones that strike you. … To gain a better understanding of the issues facing youth in Kyrgyzstan today, we’re introducing micronarratives – young people will collect, tell and interpret their own stories, providing a better understanding of the challenges they face in their everyday lives, and also helping to identify any gaps in the knowledge and skills of young people in order to shape the focus of our outreach activities.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
Posting from the lounge in Cologne/Bonn airport after a meeting with a potential client around supporting a leadership/collaboration approach addressing and using some key issues around nationality and function. (At some point it will no doubt be worth a separate blog. But now’s not that point.) I don’t recall ever Read more…