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Digital Leadership, Agile Transformation – an introduction to narrative research and SenseMaker

Thanks to the Digital Leadership Meetup team for the recent opportunity to join them. We talked about the need for good feedback, sense-making in working with people – and the vital role of employee narrative research in providing that (in this case, using SenseMaker® software). The slides from the SenseMaking Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 5 years12 April 2019 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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SenseMaker in Europe – building momentum

Friday saw the second informal meeting of European Cognitive Edge practitioners. And great conversations were had as it feels like there’s momentum building for the network in Europe – with a core group of people looking to get things going in Europe. But first things first. We’d managed to get Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 14 years18 October 2010 ago

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Playing with SenseMaker^TM

On Monday this week, I spent the day with four smart people playing with Cognitive Edge’s SenseMaker software and a collection of just over 1500 stories. What was most encouraging was that, up to that point, most of us had used it and looked at material and wondered why we Read more…

By Tony Quinlan, 15 years7 October 2009 ago