Transforming organisations – slides from the Agile2019 workshop in DC
by Tony Quinlan on Aug 20, 2019 4:14:00 PM
A big thank you to everyone who came along to our workshop last week in Washington, DC. A whistle-stop hour-long session saw us sense-making – gathering about 80 experiences from people and signifying them on the walls (see the photos below), then visiting the Cynefin framework and ta …
Using SenseMaker to evaluate Sustainable Livelihoods programmes in Jordan
by Tony Quinlan on May 7, 2019 10:45:00 AM
It’s been long overdue, but I was reminded the other day that in November 2017, I presented at the annual conference for the American Evaluation Association in Washington DC on our use of SenseMaker for UNDP Jordan. [For sensitivity reasons (the project was not yet complete at that po …
Digital Leadership, Agile Transformation – an introduction to narrative research and SenseMaker
by Tony Quinlan on Apr 12, 2019 10:23:00 AM
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).
Narrate at the UN Data Literacy workshop, November 2018
by Tony Quinlan on Nov 16, 2018 5:07:18 PM
Our CEO and Chief Storyteller, Tony Quinlan, spoke on Thursday 15th November 2018 at the Bangkok workshop on UN Data Literacy. Talking about using ethnography in-field, he discussed projects we’ve undertaken with Cognitive Edge’s SenseMaker tools. His slides from the conference are do …
Complexity, micro-narratives and SenseMaker®. Tony Quinlan's talk from the UN Data Innovation Lab , Nairobi: March 2017
by Tony Quinlan on Jul 13, 2017 12:34:55 PM
It's a couple of months ago now, but Narrate's Chief Storyteller, Tony Quinlan, was invited to talk at the fourth UN Data Innovation Learning Lab event, held in Nairobi, Kenya in March 2017. The event focused on "making data meaningful and making the invisible visible".
What lies ahead? Building CrowdSensed pictures
by Tony Quinlan on Jul 7, 2015 6:24:44 AM
This week I'm in Singapore at the International Risk and Horizon Scanning Symposium - working with governments to connect Foresight, Policy and Practice. Sometimes that's about increasing scanning capacity to help with strategic shock, sometimes it's about looking at underlying trends …
StratCom presentation slides - Partnership for Peace, 26th March 2015
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 30, 2015 7:22:18 PM
As promised, here are the slides from last week's presentation at the Partnership for Peace base in Ankara. The usual caveats apply - I'm not sure how much sense these make without my discussion over the top...
Get your QCon slides here!
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 7, 2015 12:44:35 AM
A great morning at QCon in London today - speaking on using SenseMaker® to understand user requirements better. I had to rush out the door, so didn’t get to hear Chris Matts and Shane Hastie in the afternoon.
Following up on the Cynefin and Sense-Making course...
by Tony Quinlan on Dec 9, 2014 11:13:06 AM
Last week saw the last Cynefin and Sense-Making (CSM) courses of the year, Dave and I sharing the presenting/facilitating duties. A full room of different backgrounds and nationalities, which kept everything interesting - lessons and applications getting swapped across sectors and cou …
Catching up - Learning From Incidents slides
by Tony Quinlan on Nov 5, 2014 10:52:18 AM
It's been an "interesting" few weeks at breakneck pace, so I'm a bit behind in putting things up. So, catching up bit by bit - here are the slides from the ESRC Learning From Incidents seminar at Southampton University on 15th October, along with some reflections from the morning.