The Meeting Place This park commemorates the dynamic spirit of human interaction that began over 6000 years ago here at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. It is dedicated to all those who came to the Forks and shared…
Developing an organizational vision with the long-term capabilities of both people engagement and product or service innovation requires bringing the entire organization into the planning room. Organizations are complex entities with people, processes and systems all needing to be coordinated…
In a recent conference call with employees from the United Food Workers (UFW) Union, I shared two case studies of STS (socio-technical systems) designing in which I was the consultant-member of the organizations’ design teams. Both of the case studies…
In 1990, Peter Senge wrote a seminal article on leadership and what it takes to build an organization capable of continuous learning. Those of us researching for current best practice might bypass this potentially dated information, but have a look…
No matter what our occupation or where we reside, how we currently live and work is being redefined by global trends such as: • information and communication technological advances • demographic changes in a highly educated workforce • economic shifts…
Over the past decade, social innovation has emerged as a viable means of creating permanent systems change. Although no singular definition has coalesced from those active in this field, the Centre for Social Innovation settled on “new ideas that resolve…
I recently blogged about three new workplace contexts in which we find ourselves plying our 21st century trades – Adaptive Enterprise Models. Of course the real stress test for new thought models is “Do they hold up against recent evidence…
If you have been following previous blogs, you will recall me mentioning an STS-RT (Socio-Technical Systems Roundtable) research and discovery process in which I am involved. The journey my colleagues and I ventured into was to understand and document changing…
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