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March 8, 2024
When I was asked to reflect on the role of women in science, philosophy, and research for International Women’s Day, I was immediately taken back to an A-level history lesson at the age of 18.  We were lucky enough to have a teacher who inspired us with tales of his previous life working in the […]
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March 5, 2024
The basic Estuarine Framework has not changed significantly since last year’s publication; the vulnerable zone has been renamed volatile, but that is it for the base framework, which is a testament to its utility. What has changed are the options to generate items for the framework, the action types have extended, and the need to […]
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March 4, 2024
In this second post, I promised to describe the AIMS framework fully, and in doing that, I will also bring in ASHEN in an integrated frame with one of the critical parts of  Estuarine Mapping.  I first referenced this on the blog in January, but I had already started to use and develop it several […]
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March 3, 2024
We are excited to launch our new line of QuickSense applications, built on SenseMaker®. A QuickSense is a pioneering way to gather qualitative data about people’s observations and experiences, turned into analysis by the respondents themselves!  So, you get authentic analyses of real experiences, rather than external interpretations of them. Results are demonstrated using simple […]
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March 1, 2024
So, it is time for my annual update on frameworks and methods.  Last year, I switched from the Cynefin Framework to Estuarine mapping.  In part because most of the tensions in the Cynefin Framework had been resolved, and it was time to move on.  Cynefin is a decision support framework that recognises complexity theory, while […]
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February 29, 2024
There will be a few context-setting memories before I get to the point in today’s post, so feel free to go straight to the sub-heading if you want to avoid them. I spent a fair amount of time in Philadelphia during my IBM days for several reasons.  I worked as a minor advisor to Jan […]
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February 27, 2024
One of the critical approaches we developed with narrative, initially in workshops and then at scale with SenseMaker®, was to take people through parallel processes of interpretation and then get the two groups to compare the results.  That work is three decades old in some forms, and the underlying principles have stood the test of […]
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February 24, 2024
This post continues the narrative theme that I have been working through over the last few weeks with two purposes: (i) to add to what has been a thirty-year body of work and (ii) to prepare for an easy-to-use set of tools to understand, and as significantly to change, underlying attitudes in a range of […]
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February 20, 2024
I’m playing with fire a bit here as I am not a native Welsh speaker, and there are subtleties of meaning that I don’t fully understand.  Any feedback is appreciated, and please assume good intent.  Still, I was struck when reading a poem in translation – with the original Welsh on the adjacent page – […]
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