In the latest HBS Working Knowledge, Rosabeth Moss Kanter makes the case in SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System that an organization’s strategy is best steered by establishing a clear and committed foundation of values. Organizational commitments to a way of being, not the meaningless kind that sit flat on the wall plaques in most of corporate . . . → Read More: Guided by Values
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So we’re in an everlasting downturn and nobody is really sure what’s next in store for any industry, newspapers, broadcast, publishing, financial, automotive, retail, construction, food production, energy, healthcare. If the rational, reasonable Western world is in such a fit of uncertainty, we clearly need to be innovating our way forward. Designers have always been up to . . . → Read More: Innovating as if your Future Depended on it. You know we’re in a very unusual downdraft cycle when articles on keeping the faith with innovation during downturns remain popular. The perpetual (or is it eternal?) financial crisis has lasted long enough to sustain a cottage industry of books and workshops intended to help the waning innovator and entrepreneur. My colleague Walter Derzko in Toronto . . . → Read More: Innovating in the eternal downturn One of the central distinctions in the US presidential election that I’ve seen is that of the candidate’s integrity with their stated and perceived virtues. Barack Obama has led an exemplary campaign, and unbiased observers (of which I cannot really claim to be) would notice that he has maintained a consistent focus on several distinct NEW . . . → Read More: Values integrity: Leadership means keeping it real UK’s Trendwatching gives us OFF=ON. Everything offline takes on characteristics of the online (esp Web 2.0) world. Indeed this is a trend many of us have pushed with clients overly investing their brands in one medium/world or the other, but not both effectively. The primary vector in their article is mapping online features, design, and interaction . . . → Read More: OFF + ON |
Blogs have evolved into several popular forms - mine is an old-school online publication of written works in progress. While the topics range widely, they reveal my interest in understanding the emerging social meaning of technology in use, finding better ways of designing for knowledge and organizational practices, and progressive interpretations of systemic innovation. The title is meaningful - I see design processes as dialogic. Not just iterative, but design as languaging, both verbal & visual. We co-create & co-interpret in shared languages. A dialogic orientation requires we discover and appreciate the perspectives of all participants in a socio-technical system. Dialogue is performative designing - it requires both discipline and improvisation, to enable emergence of new meaning in human systems. We hold these dialogues every 2nd Wednesday in Toronto: Realize that dialogue has occurred when speaking leads to a new state of mutual understanding, and right action arises. This is also the purpose of designing. |
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