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SenseMaker™ nominated for award

by Tony Quinlan on Nov 29, 2010 9:28:32 AM

Congratulations to Jochum and Masja for the success of their big Philips project. Gathering material around gardens - all to inform lighting decisions. A great example of the need to research around an issue, not directly at the question!

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Topics: Narrative Communications SenseMaker customer research customer insight Cognitive Edge research

Practicalities and applications - SenseMaker in application

by Tony Quinlan on Nov 12, 2010 2:06:13 PM

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 r …

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Seminar workshop: Practical approaches to intractable problems

by Tony Quinlan on Oct 21, 2010 4:36:00 PM

I mentioned this on Wednesday. Details are finalised:

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Topics: Organisational culture Narrative Narrate news Leadership Complexity Cognitive science Knowledge Dave Snowden SenseMaker KM Changing organisations narrative research Cognitive Edge applications

Doing more with less: detecting shifts, spotting weak signals - SenseMaker I

by Tony Quinlan on Oct 19, 2010 10:14:00 AM

I promised a series of posts talking about using SenseMaker. They'll be interspersed over the coming weeks with others - I don't particularly want to be singing a one-note song and sending you all away in search of diversity...

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Topics: Complexity impact measurement monitoring and evaluation SenseMaker M&E education NHS Cognitive Edge

Reflections on The Future, Backwards

by Tony Quinlan on Sep 3, 2010 7:13:01 PM

Wednesday's session of The Future, Backwards was great. I played uber-facilitator, racing between the 8 separate groups, while Anne, Dick, Sally and Meg worked with two groups each more closely. That seemed to work pretty well - I walked miles, helped steer and got to see 4 distinctly …

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Making sense of thousands of stories, suggestions or complaints

by Tony Quinlan on Aug 27, 2010 12:00:56 PM

Stories are fabulous things, but there's one thing about them that makes them a real bugger to work with. They're big, wordy and take time to read. And if you've got loads of them (or indeed anything over a couple of dozen) it's well-nigh impossible to see patterns in them or analyse …

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Playing with SenseMakerTM

by Tony Quinlan on Oct 7, 2009 10:58:15 PM

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 didn't get …

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Topics: Narrative Complexity Cognitive science SenseMaker Storytelling patterns Cognitive Edge sensemaking
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