Archives: Education
The Reformation of Capitalism
In June 2014, Clayton Christensen and Derek van Bever wrote in the June 2014 issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR). “The orthodoxies governing finance are so entrenched that we almost need a modern-day Martin Luther to articulate the need for change.” And they are not the only ones signalling we need a change of direction in how we think our economies work. In Vienna this year the Global Peter Drucker Forum gathered together the great and the good to explore what next for Capitalism looks like. We have arrived at a turning point,” says the Forum’s abstract. “Either the world will embark on a route towards long-term growth and prosperity, or we will manage our way to economic decline.” Continue reading
December 15, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged crowdfunding and financial capital, designing for transformation, failure of business schools, need for transformational change, people powered organisations, Peter Drucker conference vienna, Redesigning the banking system, reformation of business, systems design for business, the crisis of trust in business, the high performance business, the high performance organisation, the limits of growth, transforming organisations empowering employees, what next for business?, world economic crisis, zero employment contracts
Yeo Valley Farms, a masterclass in business transformation
The challenge: How do we remove the acute volatility and therefore risk of running a farm? How can we become more resilient and get to a better future? Yeo Valley Farms is the largest organic dairy farm in the UK, and is a great example of how to deal with economic disruption and create lasting transformational change – that delivers better business, without damaging the natural environment. Continue reading
December 11, 2014
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged 7 ways organic farms outperfom conventional farms, business strategy, business transformation, conscious capitalism, farming for our future, high performance business, innovation in urban farming, Joel Salatin, Myra Goodman, nonlinear design, nonlinear innovation, organic farming and biodiversity, organic farming systems build rather than deplete soil organic matter, the economics of organic farming, the future of business, yeo valley farms
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid and Darwin
At the turn of the 20th century an exiled Russian aristocrat and anarchist, Peter Kropotkin, wrote a classic book called Mutual Aid. He complained that, in the widespread acceptance of Darwin’s ideas, heavy emphasis had been laid on the cleansing role of social conflict and far too little attention given to the remarkable examples of cooperation. Even now, biological knowledge of symbiosis, reciprocity and mutualism has not yet percolated extensively into public discussions of human social behaviour. Continue reading
November 27, 2014
Education / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Charles Darwin, collaborative cultures, collaborative design, collaborative economics, collaborative learning, collaborative sociology, collaborative structures in media, cultures of collaboration, darwin and collaboration, i+we=why?, new thinking in economic philosophy, new thinking on cooperaton, nonlinear innovation, Peter Kropotkin, Political philosophy, technologies of cooperation
NASA shows us our beautifully interconnected planet
Our nonlinear world understands everything is interconnected to everything else. This video is a wonderful demonstration of the interconnectedness of our oceans. We have much to learn from natures design models and understand our own limitations if we believe that organisations or economies work best when they are deconstructed to the point when we can no longer see nor comprehend the whole system. Watch and wonder. Continue reading
November 14, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / Technology
Tagged designing networked organisations, Lee Smolin, natural capitalism, nonlinear design, nonlinear economies, nonlinear innovation, on beauty, on beauty and organizational design, organisations designed as open systems, perpetual ocean, radical economics, radical redesign business, the interconnected planet, the life and death of nonlinear organisations, the overview effect, the radical redesign of business
Dickson Despommier innovating the vertical farm
This is how Dickson sees our future panning out. By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth’s population will reside in urban centers. Applying the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will increase by about 3 billion people during the interim. An estimated 109 hectares of new land (about 20% more land than is represented by the country of Brazil) will be needed to grow enough food to feed them, if traditional farming practices continue as they are practiced today. At present, throughout the world, over 80% of the land that is suitable for raising crops is in use (sources: FAO and NASA). Historically, some 15% of that has been laid waste by poor management practices. What can be done to avoid this impending disaster? Continue reading
November 12, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged 2007–2008 world food price crisis, Agriculture, arbor house, Black Sea Region, Dickson Despommier, European Union, farming to save the planet, farming tools of innovation, Food and Agriculture Organization, future growing, gotham green, innovation in urban farming, lufa farms, natural capitalism, nonlinear innovation, Palm oil, Price index, restoration of farmland, Rome, rregenerative design model, sustainable urban farming, the failure the traditional farming, the greening of economics, United States, vertical farming
LEGO cultures of creativity
The LEGO Foundation are creating and sharing ground-breaking research on the power of play and creativity in learning, to act as a critical resource for thought leaders, influencers, educators and parents all around the world. Continue reading
October 18, 2014
Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged cultures of creativity, cultures of innovation, cultures of transformation, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, Lego, LEGO Group, Lego Ninjago, Minecraft, nonlinear innovation as play, Ole Kirk Christiansen, play as innovation, play pathways to creativity, transformation through play, United Kingdom, United States
The healthy society and preventative medicine
In recent years, scientific and technological developments have contributed to major progress in the health of individuals and for societies at large. What are the future roads to increased health in the world? How will science, technology and innovation contribute to this development? Where are the major challenges and possibilities? Continue reading
October 16, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / Technology
Tagged biodiversity+human wellbeing, centre for healthy aging, economic performance+happiness+wellbeing, EuroScience Open Forum 2014 Copenhagen, innovation in health care, lene juel rasmussen, preventative health care, preventative medicine, science and health, technology and the future of health, the future of healthcare, transforming health care, wellbeing and action for happiness
The future of learning from the LEGO Foundation
Curiosity is part and parcel of the creative process, and creativity is a key component of non-linear thinking. Creativity enables us to discover the new, the novel, to examine and evaluate its possibilities. Creativity in a No Straight Lines perspective is the means to also see the world and its context in a broader context, understanding its richer deeper narrative. A short video on the future of learning from the LEGO Foundation. Continue reading
October 15, 2014
Tagged creative learning, curiosity in education, education and creativity, narrative led education, the joy of craftsmanship, the modernday craftsman
Tim Campbell on what makes a smart city
Our urban environments are under strain, whether that be, the birthplace of the Garden City Letchworth, or cities such as Odense in Denmark, larger one like Bristol, or megacities like Seoul (Taking the Seoul Train to the Sharing Economy Part … Continue reading
July 14, 2014
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged beyond the smart city, cities of the future, collaborative cultures, collaborative design, Garden City Letchworth, harnessing collective intelligence, IBM, Jane Jacobs, learning cities, Letchworth, Lina Bo Bardi, Marilyn Hamilton, Odense, participatory cutlures, Smart city, the city that learns, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Tim Campbell
Cradling the transformative economy
As we evolve for a linear model of economy. What we make and how we make it, what we do with our waste and how we waste that too. We start to see a new horizon where our obituary won’t be what we have sent to the landfill but something more elegaic and life affirming – as we become part of the circular economy. It has been described as cradle to cradle. Continue reading
July 9, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged adoption of sustainable technologies, Business, business benefits of c2c, c2c certification, c2c design, chemicals kind to the environment, Circular economy, cradle to cradle 101, Cradle-to-cradle design, ecology of economy, flute office, ford motor company green+sustainable, green business, Industrial design, innovative business models, Michael Braungart, natural business, nonlinear economy, nonlinear innovation, the access economy, Wikipedia, William McDonough
John Mackey CEO of Whole Foods on Conscious Capitalism
What is the purpose of business, or an organisation? In No Straight Lines, I ask this question – How can we create better for our economies, organisations and societies – all at the same time. As currently it seems we always have to make a choice of one over the other, at the expense always to us. John Mackey CEO of Whole Foods demonstrates it does not have to be that way – and that better much better does not have to cost the earth. Continue reading
June 18, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged a better capitalism, better for people and planet, concious capitalism, earthbound farms, future agriculture, future food economies, green business, Green capitalism, John Mackey, Myra Goodman, natural capitalism, nonlinear innovation, organic ilford, polyface farms, purpose in business, regenerative economics, riverford organic farms, Systems thinking, the purpose directed organisation, the theory of moral sentiments+adam smith, Whole Foods Market, whole foods uk
Myra Goodman on organic food systems as common sense
Myra Goodman runs the largest organic food production company in the USA. In this video she explains why organic farming makes sense. Makes sense, economically, for communities, and of course to help build a regenerative society. She makes the point that nature works at scale – so why cant farming? It is more of how we frame the question and what type of world we choose to live in. Continue reading
June 11, 2014
Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / Technology
Tagged alice holden, Bangladesh, connecting food to people, diy farming, Earthbound Farm, farmers' markets, farming for the community, innovating food economies, Iowa, Myra Goodman, nonlinear innovation, Organic farming, organid ilford, rebecca hosking, Todmorden, United States, Vietnam, yeo valley farms
Odense working on an innovative template for civic centric systems
Place and community as social and economic networks: Last week I was in Odense, a municipality of Denmark, working with a team of people who are knee, elbow, neck deep in system change. My task was to help this team of wonderful people explore how they could address that change as it presents significant challenges in how people embrace transformation, and work meaningfully with it. This team had healthcare as a key concern. So we went on a journey exploring how one can create powerful systems change inside an existing organisation and, at the same time explored innovative practices that can reduce the significant financial burden of healthcare and more importantly change its purpose to one that was more preventative inspired by reinvigorating the sources of health. Continue reading
May 21, 2014
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged A restorative economy, civilizing the economy, cocreation civic innovation, denmark, Ecuador, healthcare innovation, Helene Bækmark, Innovation Lab Denmark, nonlinear innovation, Odense, peer to peer society, Scotland, six steps to transformation, Stanford Social Innovation Review, the open society
Lessons from Patagonia's Founder Yvon Chouinard
Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia strikes me as a true Craftsman. The civilizing craftsman uses his tools and his labours for the collective good. Chouinard wants us to stop being consumers and start being thoughtful global citizens. His work to make us think more deeply abut the world we inhabit. Continue reading
May 8, 2014
Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness
Tagged Business, Consumerism, Craftsman, green economy, nonlinear innovation, Patagonia, regenerative economy, responsible economy, Richard Sennett, South America, Travel, Yvon Chouinard
Broke
I have been reading David Boyle’s new book Broke. How to survive the middle-class crisis. Gonzalez de Cellerigo was a lawyer and an economist living in 1600 Spain. He writes, the riches which should have brought wealth have brought poverty. Cellerigo understood that the flood of money coming into Spain, over the last 4 decades had caused the value of money to fall. Boyle makes observation that in modern Britain today we have suffered the same, ‘the cascade of wealth into the City of London, instead of financing production, it was frittered away on interest payments for debt, buying luxury goods from abroad, raising prices and, in the case of sixteenth century Spain, on the purchase of Eastern luxuries from the Portuguese Empire’. Continue reading
March 2, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged aston reinvestment trust, boots the chemists and unions, british business bank, david boyle, demise of the middle class, designing for humanity, dorset, economic systems thinking, economics as if it mattered, failure uk public services, fall of spanish economy, future house prices in britain, future local economies, Gonzalez de Cellerigo, Innovation, International Labour organisation, KKR the barbarians at the gate, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, london rebuilding society, new values in new economy, nonlinear innovation, private equity capitalists in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, rethinking uk economy, rise of the p2p society, school dinners and education, school for social entrepreneurs, shareable cities, systems thinking in economics, the reinvention of the middle class, tim crabtree, west dorset food and land trust, west dorset food links, what to do about british economy, why the middle class matters
The revolt against traditional education
Last year I was working with an extraordinary group of people in Salzburg – where we had come together to explore the potential of systemic transformation. In one exercise we worked collaboratively on an idea that each individually intrigued us. Mine was education. After many rounds of questioning – we were asked to write from the heart, intuitively what we felt. This is what I wrote. The Revolt Against Traditional Education: Continue reading
February 1, 2014
Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, creativity and orginal thinking, educating the reflective practitioner, educating the world, education and values, education frees the world, education innovation, embracing change in our learning landscape, finalnd pioneers in education, Henry Jenkins, learning and poverty, learning and religious education, learning poverty and fundamentalism, learning reimagined, methods and theories of education, mobile education, nonlinear innovation, participatory learning, sir ken robinson, systemic change in education, talent and education, teaching creatively, technology and learning, what is creativity?, world reader
Kano: helping make creators of the future not consumers of the past
thought of Lewis Hyde who wrote in The Gift, “we’ve witnessed the steady conversion into private property of the art and ideas that earlier generations thought belonged to their cultural commons”. When reading Miranda Swayers piece on the computing company for kids – Kano. Essentially Kano is plug and play coding making computing and the creation of things via coding and computing accessible to all comers. Hydes observation also resonated, when Alex Klein one of the Kano founders tells a story from an experience from Zuccotti Park when as a journalist he was covering the Occupy Movement, he asked the Occupy-ers why, if they hated big business so much, they all used iPhones and Samsungs. Continue reading
January 5, 2014
Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Alex Klein, changing the way we think about computing, coding for beginners, coding in education+why every child schould code, coding innovation, coding literacy, coding the future, creative coding, creativity and coding, diy computing made easy, ethics of craftsmanship, future education+raspberry pi+tinkering+play, future of education, future of learning, Hacker ethic, hacking the future, how to build your own computer, Kano, learning to code made easy, lessons in coding, Lewis Hyde, Life as craftsmanship, maker movement uk, miranda sawyer, No Straight Lines, Occupy Movement, principles of craftsmaship, Rewired State, smlxl, teaching coding, Zuccotti Park
The restorative economy
Need to rewrite the foundations of economics: The need for a root and branch rewriting of economics produced a book last year called What’s the Use of Economics? Teaching the Dismal Science after the Crisis. Of course it is much much harder than anyone realises to bring into the world a truly viable alternative economy to an existing dominant model. There are many vested interests, and shifts of power that create vacuums’ generate the necessary conditions where waves of multiple dissonance; social, religious, economic combine to make people fearful of change and reactive to perceived threats real or otherwise. Opportunism trying to outflank those that seek a more ambitious goal. Continue reading
December 30, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, closed loop economics, crafting a new economy, david simon two americas, economic philosophy, economics of nature, economy of the commons, embracing a complex world, john fullerton the capital institute, lessons open commons region, natural capitalism, networked economic theory, new thinking in economic philosophy, new tools for a new economy, nonlinear innovation, open science commons, rise of foodbanks uk economy, systems thinking in economics, teaching the new economics, the carbon neutral economy, the dismal science, the open economy, the p2p economy, the Post-Crash Economics Society, the resilient economy, the shareable economy, what's the use of economics
Time to reimagine and recreate our state says Marianna Mazzucato
“The important thing for government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.” was the advice of John Maynard Keynes. Continue reading
December 15, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, civic innovation, designign for the humanos, east coast train-operating franchise, economy as a system, economy of the commons, eddy izzard for mayor, entrepreneurship the future of the eu, failure privatisation public sector uk, financing the innovative state, how to make britain great, Marianna Mazzucato, No Straight Lines, nonlinear innovation, nuclear economics uk, private equity investment tax breaks, privatising public goods uk, problem with big government, reinventing medicine, reinventing regional government, reinventing the state, religion+identity+spirituality+john stuart mill+charles handy+the hungry spirit, resilient economies, startup britain, startup uk, the furture of britain, UK government subsidises privatised utilities, uk tax expenditures, US National Institutes of Health
Lego's new business model: Pleygo
LEGO has always fascinated me, because of its journey from small to great to almost has been to a company designed for meeting the demands and challenges of a non-linear world. LEGO is launching LEGO The Movie next year and they have also been exploring the idea of building a service / rental style model called Pleygo is like a Netlix-like rental service that allows families to swap Lego sets instead of purchasing new ones and creating more plastic waste in the process. The Lego swap service enables kids to try out and play with lots of different sets. Continue reading
December 12, 2013
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged adaptive business models, Alan Moore, business as a service, business as a service+business as a platform, designing the smart organization, history business model innovation, Lego business model innovation, Lego Pleygo business model, Lego the movie, lesson in business model innovation, new tools for a new economy, No Straight Lines, non-linear innovation, resilient business models, Transformation Labs, transformation workshops, what's next for business
Exploring the future potential of Scotland
This was first posted at the Art of Hosting Scotland What kind of future do we want for Scotland? Today has been a special day. This morning 50 strangers, more or less, came together to begin a journey of, the … Continue reading
December 5, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, art of hosting, civil society systems transformation, collective intelligence, community of purpose, Crofting, designing people powered organisations, harnessing collective intelligence, innovation eco-systems, innovation in healthcare, jo confino, lasting legacy for civic society, management systems, No Straight Lines, nonlinear innovation, nova scotia+participatory leadership+Tim Merry+art of hosting, participatory leadership, participatory policing, rural parliament scotland, Scotland, Scottish Government, scottish government white paper independence, tim merry, toke moller, what next for scotland
High performance organizations through respect for people
Openness is resilience, leadership with purpose: Whereas one can see what happens when people exist in an open culture, which is led by purpose rather than a kpi. Two very different stories spring to mind, [1] the organisational systems change that was delivered through a process of participatory leadership in Nova Scotia for public health, [2] in Japan with Toyota. If you start to think about designing for whole systems with real human beings operating in those systems – I believe we see a very different organisational design emerge. Continue reading
November 17, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, art of hosting scotland, designing for humanity, designing healthcare systems, designing high performance organizations, future healthcare, future manufactuing, higher performing organizations, innovation nova scotia healthcare, innovation people power, innovation systems thinking, No Straight Lines, nonlinear innovation, north staffordshire hospital system failure, Open innovation, Otto Scharmer, radical redesign business, the greatest asset of an organization, theory u, transforming peoples lives
From a mechanistic to a natural philosophy of science
Rupert Sheldrake takes us on a journey to stand in a different place and look at science from a natural perspective rather than a mechanistic one. Whether we think about science, management, organisational design. Our machine age: Newtonian determinstic thinking has permeated all aspects of our daily living lives. Sheldrake represents a broader philosophical evolution of reappraising how we see our world, universe and cosmology. Continue reading
November 3, 2013
Adaptiveness / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged A new science of life, Alan Moore, business transformation, connected dynamic organism, new design for life, new models of business, No Straight Lines, nonlinear design, nonlinear innovation, Philosophy of Science, science and dogma, science universal possession of humanity, the transformation management, theology of science
Those Incredible Edibles from Todmorden and further afield
A couple of weeks ago I headed north to a place called Todmorden, or Tod for those in the know. This is the homeland, of a particular beast called Incredible Edible. Incredible Edible has a mission to inspire and educate the world about food, local food, local food systems, locally gown food, local food economies, and how to lead a more resilient life that is also more fun. Continue reading
October 12, 2013
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, allotments, business in the community, coherent systems of meaning, communal identity+meaning+belonging, cooperatives and civic community, design thinking, designing resilient food systems, England, Food, food tourism, France, future food economies, gift community+value of gift exchange, green business, Incredible Edible, Jarvis Cocker, Local food, local food economies, localism, narrative+place, New World, No Straight Lines, ordinary+organic+orginiality, organic, Pam Warhurst+incredible edible+defra, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling, reconnecting capital to place, social innovation, soil association, systems thinikng, Systems thinking, The Life and Death of Democracy, Todmorden, transformational design, urban and town planning, urban farming, West Yorkshire, yeo valley farms
Ecuador planning a commons based economy
They also say that disruption never comes from the centre, it always comes from the edge, from places where thinking and doing differently has greater flexibility. Perhaps it will not be the power houses of the industrial order where real and meaningful change comes from but elsewhere. So it was no surprise that the Government of Ecuador has launched a major strategic research project to “fundamentally re-imagine Ecuador” based on the principles of open networks, peer production and commoning, Continue reading
September 26, 2013
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged commons based economy, Creative Commons, David Bollier, design thinking, designing for transformation, Ecuador, FLOK Society, green economy, IAEN, Latin America, Michel Bauwens, Ministry of Human Resource and Knowledge in Ecuador, national plan for good living, National Plans, No Straight Lines, nonlinear innovation, open commons region, open finance, open hardware, open networks, open science, p2p foundation, participatory cultures, peer production, Quito, Systems thinking, the regenerative society, World Bank, world bank+criticism
What happens when organisations no longer fit reality
In my previous post on Scotland exploring a different reality, I wanted to share Tim Merry’s views on the need to create better systems more in tune wit the nature of humanity. Tim talks about meeting change with dignity. In No Straight Lines the core philosophy is we can do better and we need to deschool ourselves from a linear and mechanistic way of thinking and doing. Here is Tim expanding on his philosophy on systems change at a human scale. Continue reading
September 24, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown
Tagged Alan Moore, design thinking, designing for humanity, economic systems thinking, how to create transformational change, innovation at a human scale, No Straight Lines, nova scotia+participatory leadership+Tim Merry+art of hosting, participatory leadership, Scotland, six steps to transformation, Systems thinking, transforming economies, transforming education, transforming health care
Participatory Leadership and transformational change in Scotland
How can we create better, much better? Where we can create better functioning societies, that are regenerative, more resilient. How can we shape the future of a country to be better prepared for a more uncertain and perhaps more challenging world?
An invitation to learn how to lead change at a systemic and human level Continue reading
September 21, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged A green deal for Scotland?, Alan Moore, an architecture of participation, art of hosting, Better together?, citizenship+participation, civic humanism+civic virtue, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, Community Empowerment and Renewal Bill, community innovation, complexity theory, designing for humanity, designing the smart organization, Edinburgh, Elinor Ostrom, enterprise innovation, future civic society, future local government, future of scotland, future scottish business, future scottish healthcare, Glasgow, healthcare innovation, human capital, human centered design, humanistic psychology, Jim Mather, jim mather minister for enterprise, Ken Cloke, KPMG, Mariana Mazzucato, markets are conversations, No Straight Lines, Nova Scotia, nova scotia+participatory leadership+Tim Merry+art of hosting, p2p society, participatory innovation, participatory leadership, Regeneration Strategy, Scotland, Scottish Government, Scottish green party, Scottish national identity, social capital, Straight Lines, Systems thinking, the ash centre fordemocratic governanc, the support economy, the tragedy of the commons, Up Helly Aa, what makes a healthy civic society?
The lean green business system
The authors argue that things that are good for the planet are also good for business. Studies from the the Economist Intelligence Unit, Harvard, MIT Sloan, and others indicate that organizations that commit to goals of zero waste, zero harmful emissions, and zero use of nonrenewable resources clearly outperform their competition. Continue reading
September 15, 2013
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Adnams Brewery, Alan Moore, bio engineering, Business model innovation, design thinking, designing for the collective good, designing resilient food systems, Economist Intelligence Unit, environmental management, green business, green economy, green engineering, holistic design, Hunter Lovins, John Seddon, Kanban, Lean manufacturing, Manufacturing, natural capitalism, No Straight Lines, nonlinear innovation, organizational design, quality of life, radical redesign business, systems design, theory of constraints, Toyota, toyota global vision, toyota way, United States, value based systems
Crafting a new pursuit of happiness: re-ordering work and play
One of my interests is how and why we work, what motivates us, and how can a values based systems help us make meaningful work. Here is an excerpt Chapter 6 of No Straight Lines: Continue reading
August 24, 2013
Tagged Alan Moore, always in beta, Artisan, chaordic design, collaborative design, Craft, Craftsman, creative commons+design, customer centric design, design as process, design innovation, design thinking, designing for the collective good, designing for transformation, designing resilient food systems, designing with data, engineering design centre+cambridge, human centered design, iterate+design principle, Letchworth Garden City, Life as craftsmanship, No Straight Lines, non-linear design, organisational design, pattern language, permaculture+ecological design, Philosophy, principles of craftsmaship, radical re-design of business, Richard Sennett, Sennett, Social Sciences, Straight Lines, systems based design, universal design philosophy
Rupert Sheldrake and the dogmas of scientific materialism
TED banned this talk, I wonder what was so controversial? Of particular interest to me was the idea of variations in light-speed and gravity the big G. Sheldrake goes onto talk about the big idea that the laws of nature at an atomic level are never set, are not constant as Newton proposed but are in a permanent state of evolution. Continue reading
August 5, 2013
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Openness / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Alternative, cern, Collapse: How societies choose to fail or survive, elementary particles, general relativity, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Graham Hancock, Gravitation, laws of nature, Lee Smolin, light-speed, natures laws, networked identity, networks and disruption of traditional organization, Newton, No Straight Lines, open to new ideas, Phenomenology of Perception, Physics, quantum mechanics, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, rupert sheldrake, smlxl, Speed of light, Ted, the atlantic, The Network Society, the process of evolution, time reborn, variations in light speed
Is it solutions or transformation that we seek?
This where I think organisations need a more nuanced approach to Transformation – being able to describe a new destination, with if necessary new organisational capability. They need innovation to be interwoven into the organisation to deliver business model innovation Continue reading
July 10, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, Business model innovation, business transformation, crowdfunding, Donald Schön, firm of the future, Henry Ford Clinic, leadership, Lego, Local Motors, Organization, Patients Know Best, six principles no straight lines, smlxl, The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action
On beauty
In No Straight Lines, I talk about the Human-OS, the human operating system and argue that these are the fundamentals of what we need to think about when we design for the needs of humanity. The last point is beauty. Continue reading
June 16, 2013
Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness
Tagged aesthetics, alan moore+no straight lines, co-creation, complexity, craftsmanship, Design, firm of the future, Health care, human nature, Local Motors, No Straight Lines, nonlinear, Nova Scotia, openness, optimum complexity+beauty, participatory leadership, Philosophy, the human-os, trust, what next for business?
No Straight Lines keynote @PINC
Alan Moore keynote at PINC: Today’s and tomorrow’s executives and leaders face a complex design challenge, in transforming existing organisations and economies from a linear to a non-linear economy. Executives and leaders must be able to thrive in a world of constant change and be able to create and lead agile organisations that deliver higher performance with lower input costs. No Straight Lines has six framing principles that teach the philosophy and practice of how to design organisations and economic models for a non-linear world. Continue reading
May 19, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, antifragile, business innovation, civil society and cultural power, communications innovation, design thinking, designing for humanity, designing organizational platforms, Financial Capital, freedom lab, healthcare innovation, keynote, leadership, LEGO CUUSOO, Local Motors, mobile commerce, networked society, No Straight Lines, Nonlinear system, Open Society, p2p economics, p2p society, participatory leadership, Patients Know Best, Social justice, technological revolution and financial capital, think tank, transformation lab, Worldreader.org, yeo valley farms
End of the line for mass produced education?
Sir Ken Robinson famously said: ‘We educate our children from the waist up, then we focus on their heads, and then we only educate one side of their brain. The whole purpose of education is to produce university professors who live in their heads, their bodies are only there to transport their heads to meetings. The current education system educates creativity out of us. We need to educate children holistically. Children have extraordinary capacities for innovation and creativity. And, just as Picasso argued that we are all born artists, social philosopher Richard Sennett says we are all born craftsmen and craftswomen. Martha Nussbaum in a short interview explores these themes. Continue reading
May 16, 2013
Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools
Tagged 21st Century learning skills, Alan Moore, allegory+symbolism, Creativity, design thinking, Education, education innovation, educational theory, finnish lessons, friedrich fröbel, future educaiton, future university, Henry Jenkins, johann pestalozzi, martha nussbaum, Michael Gove, No Straight Lines, participatory education, Pasi Sahlberg, rabindranath tagore, Raspberry Pi
I don't see these things as risk, I see them as trust
I came across Amanda Palmer and was compelled by her story. In fact her entire life is non-linear, and through that life she has explored a different way of seeing, and through that a different type of wisdom. It resonated with me and with No Straight Lines. In her words, when we really see each other we help each other – and, Continue reading
May 12, 2013
Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, Amanda Palmer, beth noveck+participatory culture+crowdsourcing, collapse of trust in political elites, crisis+hope+faith+trust, crowdfunding, fan community, Grand theft orchestra, leadership in the digital economy, Muhammad Ali, No Straight Lines, nonlinear, organizational culture and leadership, participatory cultures, risk management, rules of participatory culture, transformation+trust, trust, trust+business, trusting connections
una breve introducción sin líneas rectas
En una sociedad mediática, las unidades básicas son las grandes “masas” colectivas. La sociedad red, sin embargo, está formada por individuos que establecen conexiones voluntarias con otros individuos, sea cual sea su ubicación. En una sociedad red, la red se convierte en la unidad básica de organización a todos los niveles (individuos, grupos u organizaciones). Las redes sociales virtuales, las redes de medios de comunicación y las redes tecnológicas actúan como catalizadores de la sociedad red. Continue reading
April 22, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged ¿qué sigue para América Latina, Alan Moore, ciudades inteligentes, comunidad, culturas participativas, de igual a igual la sociedad, economía, economía verde, educación futura, empresa como comunidad, futuros negocios, grandes volúmenes de datos, identidad, medios de comunicación, móvil, natural para los negocios, no lineal, No Straight Lines, organización narrativa, pensamiento de diseño, pensamiento sistémico, red economía, sin líneas rectas, tecnologia
Curiosity and education a non-linear approach (part two)
In 2006, Henry Jenkins produced a report on media literacy for the MacArthur Foundation. It states that it has identified ‘a set of core social skills and cultural competencies that young people should acquire if they are to be full, active, creative, and ethical participants in this emerging participatory culture’ Continue reading
April 13, 2013
Tagged 21st century learning, Alan Moore, appreciative enquiry, coding, coding in education, collective intelligence, Creativity, department education and skills+michael gove, Education, education theory and inspiration, education+politcs, future education, future education+raspberry pi+tinkering+play, MacArthur Foundation, media literacy, No Straight Lines, Participatory culture, Pasi Sahlberg, pattern recognition, play+performance+simulation+appropriation+multitasking+distributed cognition+collective intelligence+judgment+transmedia navigation+networking+negotiation, transformation lab, youth creativity+digital culture
Curiosity and education a non-linear approach
Curiosity is part and parcel of the creative process, and creativity is a key component of non-linear thinking. Creativity enables us to discover the new, the novel, to examine and evaluate its possibilities. Creativity in a No Straight Lines perspective is the means to also see the world and its context in a broader context, understanding its richer deeper narrative. In No Straight Lines the theorem is replace fear of the unknown with curiosity. Continue reading
Tagged Craftsman, creative economy, creative learning, creative process, creativity and culture, creativity+business, hand+heart+mind, language+pattern recognition, No Straight Lines, Nonlinear system, pattern recognition, Richard Sennett, risk: pattern recognition+pattern building, six principles no straight lines, Social Sciences, wellness, youth creativity+digital culture
Upgrading cities through social capital
Paul Ricoeur argued that our ability to be reliable and accountable to ourselves and to others requires us to feel needed, understood and included. This implicit bonding of I and We is so fundamental to our existence that it simply cannot be ignored. It must be embraced, and embedded into a way of doing things that enables us all to exist as fully formed individuals, coherent as a collective entity. Continue reading
April 12, 2013
Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, Bernard Baruch, Business, designing for transformation, future of the city, Jeffrey Sachs, No Straight Lines, Participatory culture, participatory learning, participatory tools, Seattle, social capital, Student, United States
Upgrading civic infrastructure for a non-linear world
Michael Sandel argues there’s a role for governments, for companies, for civil society, for religious institutions, for educational institutions, for the media. He says all of these institutions can contribute toward forming values and strengthening civic virtue. But so many of these institutions, are in disarray or discredited, that they are not all in very strong health. And that’s part of our challenge. Continue reading
April 3, 2013
Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / System breakdown
Tagged Alan Moore, Cairo, Civic virtue, Civil society, design challenge, design literacy, ego to eco, enterprising futures, firms of the future, future commerce, future education, future government, future healthcare, future literacy, future religion, Government, leadership, legal systems, Michael Sandel, No Straight Lines, smart cities, Social justice, social justice achieved through innovation, Sustainability
Arnold Heertje humanizing the economy
Arnold Heertje is an economist, author and a provocative voice in the Dutch public debate. His analyses of the current situation regarding the economic crisis and the symptom it is according to him of a larger social paradigmatic shift. Heertje argues that we have lived in a quantitative and dehumanizing economic paradigm which has alienated human beings from their labour and social being. This crisis is the implosion of that model and should be used to initiate the shift towards the new paradigm, which has in his mind everything to do with sustainability and a return to human proportions. Continue reading
Adaptiveness / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Arnold Heertje, Barack Obama, Big data, Crowd funding, designing for the human-os, Economic model, enterprising futures, future healthcare, human os, human proprtions, moral economy, New Economic Model, No Straight Lines, Obama, Paradigm, participatory cultures, participatory tools, Rahm Emanuel, schumacher college, smart cities, the ethical company, the future of education
Enterprising futures, teaching at Schumacher
Last week I had the privilege of teaching for a week at Schumacher College on the Enterprising Futures course. The course explores the rapidly changing world of enterprise forms and models, helping to make sense of the revolution currently sweeping through the ways in which we do business Continue reading
March 24, 2013
Tagged Alan Moore, Business, collective craftsmanship, complexity, cooperatives, crowdfunding, Dartmoor, Ecology of Commerce, Education, England, fair finance, green economics, green enterprise, Local Motors, No Straight Lines, nova scotia health care, Open Source, Participatory culture, participatory learning, Patients Know Best, Philanthropy, progressive philosophy, sarah lucas, Schumacher, schumacher college, smlxl, Social enterprise, sustainable enterprise, transition towns, World Bank, Worldreader
Lessig on Aaron's Law, the law and justice in a non-linear world
Lawrence Lessig, inaugral lecture gives his perspectives on the Aaron Swartz, and where we go from here. Continue reading
February 24, 2013
Education / Openness / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, cory doctorow+open book, Creative Commons, digital free speech, future copyright law, future education, Lawrence Lessig, No Straight Lines, open democracy, open innovation+open region+open commons+open data+open society+p2p society+open api's+, open science, open society institute, open source+open access, p2p, sharing economy, Sharing+Openness+Decentralization+Free access to computers+World Improvement, the open society
The Gestalt Switch to the Human-OS
In The Life and Death of Democracy, John Keane points out that when democracy takes hold of people’s lives, it gives them a glimpse of the contingency of things. They are, he says: ‘injected with the feeling that the world can be other than it is – that situations can be countered, outcomes altered, people’s lives changed through individual and collective action.’ Do people feel this today? Democracy, says Keane, ‘thrives on humility and a shared sense of equality among citizens needs to be visceral’. Continue reading
February 17, 2013
Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Amartya Sen, arab spring, Benjamin Barber, consumer politics, consumer society, Democracy, democracy 2.0, George W. Bush, J. G. Ballard, life and death of democracy, Lizabeth Cohen, No Straight Lines, one nation, open democracy, open democracy+civil society+ethics, political economy, pussy riot, SOCAP, social capital, the joyless economy+tibor scitovsky, Tibor Scitovsky, twitter+democracy, twitter+protest, United States, ushahidi
What does next for business look like?
We have created a 1 day session and shorter briefings for companies and organisations that are interested in exploring what next might look like for them. Continue reading
February 12, 2013
Tagged Alan Moore, Big data, collaborative enterprise, design thinking, Dimension, enterprise models, Environment, Environmental resources management, future of business, future of the firm, Generation Y, human os, No Straight Lines, Open Source, Organization, Sustainability, Sustainable Development
Open science part of our non-linear world
Science like other industries faces significantly interlinked challenges; how is science going to be funded in the future, and how does one accelerate scientific breakthrough? Who has the right to access? Because many innovative ideas that have changed society have arisen from the combination of curiosity and academic freedom. Continue reading
February 4, 2013
Education / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Elsevier, Fab lab, identity, Lawrence Lessig, networked research, No Straight Lines, Open access, Open research, open science commons, Open Source, Oxford University, San Diego, science+society, Timothy Gowers
How language shapes our thinking that then shapes us
In my journey of looking at how we create new, invigorating and regenerative ways of being, working, learning, I have increasingly become aware that the way that the language we use shapes our thinking and how we ultimately engage with the world. Continue reading
February 2, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Openness
Tagged Alan Moore, Business, company of the future, Creative Commons, design thinking, enterprise innovation, firm of the future, French Revolution, Language, Linguistics, Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, No Straight Lines, organizations of the future, pattern recognition, Social Sciences, Systems thinking, Vannevar Bush
Henry Jenkins interview No Straight Lines
Henry Jenkins interviews author Alan Moore: Through the years, we have remained in touch. Moore remains one of the most thoughtful people I have met — someone who reads broadly, who asks challenging questions, who is willing to explore alternative perspectives, and who is trying to construct his own theoretical model for the changes that are impacting our contemporary society. Continue reading
January 30, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Cambridge, collective craftsmanship, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, craftsmanship, engagement marketing, hand+heart+mind, Henry Jenkins, human os, identity, Innovation, Marketing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, No Straight Lines, Participatory culture, six principles no straight lines, smlxl, system upgrade, Systems thinking
Ushahidi: a story of non-linear innovation
As described in No Straight Lines – what we face in a complex challenging world is a design challenge. Here is a story of how without spending any money a group of highly motivated people came together from around the world with multiple-design skills and capability, to create what has become the cutting edge in crisis management, and a new radical design of NGO. This organisation is called Ushahidi. Continue reading
January 21, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, complexity, Connectivity and the Diffusion of Power, crisis manangement, design thinking, future ngo, Innovation, inovation workshop, mobile, Mobile Web, No Straight Lines, Open Data, Open innovation, Open Source, participatory cultures, Systems thinking, ushahidi+ngo+networked
The No Straight Lines Yearbook 2012
2012 was the year No Straight Lines was launched. It felt like a very hard year after hardly taking a breath between the research, writing and production and then onto bringing an idea into the world. But the sum of the parts adds up to quite an interesting year. Continue reading
January 9, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, complexity, future of business, future of the organization, hacking the future, Innovation, No Straight Lines, Patients Know Best, smlxl, the social enterprise, transformation
Austerity will not get us to the future we deserve, but creative entrepreneurial expression will
Britain socially and culturally has been shaped by our responses to successive technologies, harnessing their potential to enable us to play a significant role on the worlds stage. This moment in time really does feel like a turning point in our collective approach to the organisation of the economy and society. If we want our towns and cities to hum along, if we want to educate our young to be truly part of the 21st Century, if we want to create jobs and meaningful work, create breakthrough science and pharma projects, a healthcare system that really works, if we want factories of the future that can create value globally then is time for us to be as great as our finest engineers, industrialists, innovators who sought ways of getting things done that were transformational for our society and our economy. A mindset of austerity will not get us to that place. It is time for us to use one of our greatest assets creative entrepreneurial expression and design for transformation. Continue reading
January 2, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Andrew Haldane, complexity theory, Eastman Kodak, future britain, future education, future health, future manufacturing, future of business, human os, open innovation+open region+open commons+open data+open society+p2p society+open api's+, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling, systems design, Systems thinking
A sociedade a e economia no straight lines
An interview with HSM in Brazil about No Straight Lines. It is in Portuguese and you can download it here Continue reading
November 24, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged adaptatividade, assistência médica, capitalismo moral, co-criação, complexidade, comunicações móveis, concepção da empresa, concepção da empresa do futuro, concorrência e inovação, cultura, democracia aberta, desenho, economia colaborativa, educação, empresa do futuro, espiritualidade, espiritualidade do homem, ética, habilidade, humanidade conduz a tecnologia, identidade, inovação aberta, inovação automotiva, inovação cuidados crônicos de saúde, inovação cuidados de saúde, inovação financeira, movimento criador, mundo complexo, negócio, negócios sociais, negócios sustentáveis, organização, organização em rede, redesenho radical dos negócios, saúde, significado, sistemas de pensamento, sociedade, tecnologia, transformação, transformação de negócios
How to design for business transformation
Speaking at a number of events recently I have been asked, repeatedly whether large existing organisations can truly evolve and adapt sufficiently in volatile business conditions, and whether an organisation needs to be in deep crisis before they take the necessary radical steps. Continue reading
November 21, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, complexity, design thinking, Detroit, future business, future health, Kodak, Lego, LEGO CUUSOO, Local Motors, No Straight Lines, Nokia, nova scotia public health care, Open innovation, Organization, participatory healthcare, Patients Know Best, systems design, Systems thinking, transformation, ukti
The Radical Re-Design of Business
This week I was invited to Shanghai to speak about the transformational design of businesses at Radical Design Week – Shanghai.
In the Heavy Metal Seminar (heavy industry rather than a debate about Metallica), my topic was car manufacturing and how with state of the art 3D fabrication tools, combined with networked participatory cultures and tools, insights into rapid innovation and build practices, a car company Local Motors can build cars five times faster at one hundred times less the capital cost and sell its first production vehicle The Rally Fighter at $79,000. This is radical transformational business design. Continue reading
November 2, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged 3D printing, alan moore+no straight lines, Automotive industry, BMW, crowdfunding, DARPA, design thinking, designing transformational organization, Detroit, fabrication, innovation workshops, Local Motors, Nova Scotia, Open innovation, participatory cultures, radical venturing, Rally Fighter, shanghai, the lean organization, transformational design, World Food Programme
Economics does it have any use?
Edited by Diane Coyle, What’s the Use of Economics? is written by an array of esteemed and respected economists. It makes the point in no uncertain terms that the economics taught and practised is out of step and time with the world we live in today — a non-linear world. As David Colander wrote, To understand the economy, an economist must understand how complex nonlinear systems of heterogeneous agents operate so that he is not overly impressed by simple linear dynamic models. Continue reading
October 25, 2012
Tagged alan kirman, alan moore+no straight lines, Andrew Haldane, andrew w. lo, arab spring, banking crisis, Benjamin M. Friedman, David Colander, Diane Coyle, Dismal Science, Economics, John Kay, lehmann brothers+financial collapse, non linear, smlxl, Social science, stephen king+economist, world bank+imf+new economics+complexity
Waterstones Cambridge hosts No Straight Lines
On the 7th November 2012 starting at 5.30pm I shall be giving an introductory talk about No Straight Lines at Waterstones in Cambridge.
Humanity shifts gear when it demands fundamental change to its real world circumstances and this moment in time really does feel like a turning point in our collective approach to the organisation of the economy and society as a whole. So what does humanity want, and, how is this aspiration driving systemic change? Continue reading
October 9, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Cambridge, complexity, design thinking, designing for humanity, future business, future innovation, future nhs, Innovation, nature of business, networks, No Straight Lines, smlxl, Systems thinking, talks+cambridge, Waterstones+talks
No Straight Lines: insanely ambitious?
Insanely ambitious – or as Tony Judt asked why do we experience such difficulty even imaging a different sort of society? Why is it beyond us to conceive a different set of arrangements to our common advantage? Continue reading
August 22, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, book review, designing resilient food systems, Diane Coyle, non-linearity+adaptive systems+complexity+innovation+networked leadership+managing complexity+adaptive management+resilience+maladaptive systems+maximum sustained yield+presistence of relat
Diane Coyle reviews No Straight Lines
I met Alan earlier in the week to talk about the book, which is about redesigning business models taking into account both the dramatic effects of digital technologies and the multiple crises – financial, environmental, social – crashing over western economies at present. It seemed quite an apt choice of reading material, having seen Danny Boyle’s brilliant vision of a Britain socially and culturally shaped by our responses to successive technologies. This moment in time really does feel like a turning point in our collective approach to the organisation of the economy and society. Continue reading
July 29, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged adapt, alan moore+no straight lines, Alison Hastings, craftsmanship, Danny Boyle, Diane Coyle, Economic, future business, Open Society, systems design
Spanish reviews of No Straight Lines
Es difícil encontrar visionarios de esta calibre que sean capaces de plasmar con tal sencillez el cambio de paradigma actual que estamos viviendo. Continue reading
July 10, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, betterness+social divide+industrial divide+occupy+co-op capitalism+natural capitalism+alan greenspan+the end of work, collaborative economy+collaborative enterprise, complejidad, crisis del euro, culturas participativas, de crisis en el crecimiento, democracia abierta, design thinking, design+diversity, diseño para la humanidad, economía de la colaboración, el capitalismo moral, ética en los negocios, futuro de la banca, hackear el futuro, innovación, innovación sanitaria, innovation+design+architecture, la co-creación, la educación del futuro, partido popular+el mundo, santander, sistema de actualización
upgrading business to a human OS
This is a short story about a long journey, which explores the need to upgrade business to a human OS (human operating system), and maps out a navigation guide to a better business future. Continue reading
July 8, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged #tdc12+#dolectures+#likeminds, a consumers republic, agroecosystem, alfred marshall+principles of economics, banking ethical alternatives, banking evolution+piero basetti+bolgna+emilio romagna, banking+corruption, banking+institutional investors, brands, business model innovation fro growth, business+creating sustainable future, campaign for rural development, civitas, community memory project+berkeley, community of practice+learning, community reinvestment act, community+collective survival, community+resistance identity, demos
What makes the Finnish education system work?
“Human nature is not like a machine that is built like a model and set to the do the work exactly proscribed for it, but, should be see as a tree that uniquely grows depending on the diverse and inward forces that make it a living thing”.
Sitting in a packed room in the House of Commons yesterday evening I thought of John Stuart Mill listening to Pasi Sahlberg Director General of the Finnish Education Ministry talk about how and why Finland consistently has topped the OECD tables for continued excellence in education. And mourned the dogma, and industrial top down management approach that still besets the UK education system, from both left and right and fails another generation. Continue reading
May 18, 2012
Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged a new moral world: the lost socialism, academy schools, alan moore+no straight lines, alternative education+poitics of education, barriers to participation in higher education, britain innovation system+science+technology+investment+open access+support entrepreneurial companies+mobile finance+new approach to education+training+learning, coding in education+why every child schould code, critical pedagogy, dream school, dyslexia, economics and education, education for all+unesco, education technology, education transformative power, education+psychology, Finnish lessons+pasi sahlberg, future Brisitsh education, Human operating system+humanOS, investing in education, Lisa Nandy MP+education select committee, networked education, OECD Equality and Quality in Education, open democracy+civil society+ethics, society and education, special needs+special education, system upgrade+me we jung rewired for the 21st Century+gutenberg is a moblogger+big p and little p of transformation+crafting a new pursuit of happiness+reordering work and play+the open society, systems for higher education+systems for learning, the future of education, The Meaning of Educational Quality, the resilient society, what is education?
Review of No Straight Lines, via Indie Reader
No Straight Lines offers a plethora of examples of how societies and companies around the world are using technology in a collaborative and innovative way, bringing success to their economy and a meaningful connection between the members of the community. Moore successfully demonstrates how many businesses and institutions are locked in all levels of bureaucracy in an outdated and inflexible world vision and makes a strong case about why we should and how to use the tools we have to “effect change and challenge an ideology that’s proven to now be inappropriate for its time.” Continue reading
May 10, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Author, Business, collective intelligence, Ethics, Organizations, Reading, Social Sciences
Frugal Innovation working for the collective good
Last night I settled in to listen In Business with BBC journalist Peter Day. What Innovation and transformation of people’s lives, economies, etc., is very much part of the No Straight Lines project as so I was thrilled to hear Professor Jaideep Prabhu from the Cambridge University Judge Business school and Professor Anil Gupta from the Indian Institute of Management talk about Jugaad Innovation. Jugaad is a Hindi word meaning an innovation; an improvised solution born from ingenuity and resourcefulness when faced with scarce resources. Continue reading
May 4, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged affordable innovation, agroforestry+integrated farming+sustainable development+applied ecology, alan moore+no straight lines, bbc, creative capitalism, designing for humanity, frugal innovation+jugaad+lost cost innovation+quality innovation, Hacker ethic, smxl, zynga
Crafting resilient towns and cities
Recently the Prime Minister’s Office let it be known that Prime Minister David Cameron sees Letchworth as a model community wanting to apply the principles of Garden Cities throughout the UK. So how do you exactly go about creating resilient, and sustainable communities for today’s world? Continue reading
May 1, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown
Tagged a better capitalism, after the great complacence, agriculture cartels+commodity futures, alan moore+no straight lines, alliance for community media activism, amish+resilient community, antonio damasio+death and life of great american cities+bowling alone, architecture and identity, autobiography and coherence of life, banking for local regions, better society, better world+human manifesto, betterness+social divide+industrial divide+occupy+co-op capitalism+natural capitalism+alan greenspan+the end of work, broadway cinema letchworth, business and community, business+creating sustainable future, clone towns+brandalisation, co-creation+community, co-op capitalism+natural capitalism, collaborative economy+collaborative enterprise, collective identity, community and place, community as an eco system, cooperatives and civic community, crafting resilient towns, death of community, designing the smart city, Ebenezer Howard, Economic Systems, empathy and a better society, empathy+resilient society, Farm for the future, forum for the future, future british farming, George Bernard Shaw, green buildings+green architecure+green windows+green roofs+green party+green homes+green exchange+green investment, Human operating system+humanOS, Letchworth, liberty of community, life+work+networked society, linear business+lobbying market fundamentalists+transformation linear systems+berkana institute+localism+local markets+amory lovins+japan recycling+mcdonnell douglas corporation+robert mcnamara+matush, living systems+dynamic systems+code+networks+neurons+origin of self replicating systems+Reciprocal Translocations+Genetic Homeostasis+Industrial Melanism+adaptation+Individuals and Colonies+Mendel's L, local enterprise funds, local thinking+life is local+resilience+globalization, low-tillage agriculture, making sense of a non-linear world, making the world work better, monoculture capitalism, naples, narrative+place, networks the fundamental pattern of life, new literacy for a better society, new model economic localism, open democracy+civil society+ethics, order in community, people power, People's Supermarket, politics of place, progressive philosophy+green economics+transition towns, quakerism+resilient community, quest for identity, radical systemic economic reform, reconnecting capital to place, recrafting the boundaries between state, redefining the future of growth, regional development+job creation+inward investment+euro crisis+micropayments+mobile education+wiki classrooms+worldreader.org, regional political institutions+future political institutions, regional stock exchanges, resilient economies+resilient communities+respublica, resilient towns+resilient cities, RIBA+Letchworth, shakers+resilient community, shareable agriculture, shareable cities, shareable food, shareable neighborhoods, shareable rides, six principles no straight lines, sme’s the future of European growth, social+market+foundation+john kay+ed milliband+capitalism+markets+executive pay+moral society+moral business+Jesse Norman+matthew hancock+, Stroud community agriculture, supermarket democracy+monoculture of the high street+death of the high street, sustainable agriculture, systems hacking, technology+community, TESCO, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the future of collaborative enterprise+future leadership+the future of work+new business models, the future of sustainable communities, the future of town centres, the future of towns, the hacker ethic+hacking the future, the miracle of hudson street, the moral values+philosophy+standard in the hacker community, the morality of enough+moral economy, the need for community, the power of community, the triumph of community+anthony cohen, the urban century, town and country+morality of improvement+pastoral age+enclosures, town planning+future town planning, urban pioneers, urban regeneration, value orientated community, village as sustainable community, wealth creation+wealth retention+poverty+income inequality+asset building+resilience+interlinked+localism, Welwyn Garden City, will of a community
Review of No Straight Lines by Tim Smit
I am honoured that Tim Smit the man behind The Eden Project in Cornwall, got hold of a copy of my book, and sent me his take and personal perspective on why he thought it is valuable. Continue reading
April 6, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown
Tagged Alan Moore, alan moore+no straight lines, business as a service+business as a platform, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, collaborative economy+collaborative enterprise, Cornwall, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for service+designing with data, Eden Project, England, Ethics, future of health+future of nhs, henry jenkins+howard rheingold+barbara ehrenreich+amartya sen+eric beinhocker+yochai benkler+robert axelrod+robert putman+manuel castells+jan van dijk+john kay+will hutton+jerrold seigel+jane jacobs+e, Human operating system+humanOS, life sciences strategy+department of business+patient concern, Lost Gardens of Heligan, n+open source+ontario+nesta+technology strategy board+curatiba+mobile health+mhealth+ecommerce+etsy.com+ebay+apple+agriculture+android+amazon+achuar+arab spring+ansari+bric+argentia+china+india+julian, nhs+reform+andrew lansley, open democracy+civil society+ethics, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling, patients know best+local motors+growvc+africa+mobile+creative commons+yeo valley farms+lego+amazon watch+grameen phone+london data store+c, progressive philosophy+green economics+transition towns, regional development+job creation+inward investment+euro crisis+micropayments+mobile education+wiki classrooms+worldreader.org, social+market+foundation+john kay+ed milliband+capitalism+markets+executive pay+moral society+moral business+Jesse Norman+matthew hancock+, systems thinking+systems design+simplexity, tea party+occupy wall street+occupy movement+Sherrod Brown+Ben S. Bernanke+Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis+Kenneth D. Lewis+bank of america+Jamie Dimon+JPMorgan Chase+TAF borrowings+Henry M. Pauls, the future of collaborative enterprise+future leadership+the future of work+new business models, Tim, Tim Smit, Vince Cable, world bank+imf+demos+new economics+complexity
Letchworth the model community in David Cameron's big society?
Letchworth the model community in David Cameron’s big society? Cameron says he wants to apply the principles of Garden Cities throughout the UK. There are indeed beautiful aspects to Letchworth, but I think its legacy has been squandered by those that claimed to be its protectors. Whilst at the same time architectural students and planners come from the world over to admire the vision of sustainable town planning and the worlds first ever roundabout. The question is how do we design and create sustainable communities in the 21st Century Continue reading
April 4, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, big society+david cameron, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, collaborative economy+collaborative enterprise, David Cameron, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, Ebenezer Howard, future of business+future of retail, George Bernard Shaw, Human operating system+humanOS, killing town centres, Letchworth, Letchworth Garden City, Letchworth Heritage Foundation, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling, People's Supermarket, politics+participatory cultures+mobile+communication+gestalt switch, Raymond Unwin, rege, regional development+job creation+inward investment+euro crisis+micropayments+mobile education+wiki classrooms+worldreader.org, shareable cities, Stroud community agriculture, sustainable communities+sustainable economies, Tesco's+Morrison's superstores, the future of collaborative enterprise+future leadership+the future of work+new business models, the future of sustainable communities, the future of town centres, the future of towns, The garden city, the open society+Linz+Austria, urban regeneration, Welwyn Garden City, world bank+imf+demos+new economics+complexity
Designing and co-creating the best possible future for the NHS
The bitter public battle now being fought over the future of the NHS looks set to continue. Its future shape uncertain, and the mounting resistance that is so visceral is based upon fear, uncertainty and crucially a genuine lack of trust in those that claim to be guiding us to the best possible future the NHS. The Lancet in January 2011 agreed that the current system stifles innovation and that although vast sums have been invested in the NHS we have not seen the benefit delivered as valuable frontline services. So we need transformation. But the question is how do we get to that best possible future? How do we create a more sustainable NHS? Here are a couple of thoughts. Continue reading
April 1, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged actor theory in networked organisation, affinity spaces+learning, agile alliance, agile organisation, aging population pressure on health budgets, Alan Moore taler i hans foredrag om fremtidens sundpleje, All india instiute for medical sciences, american council capital formation+american council on science and health+american enterprise institute, analytical learning, Anaphylaxis Campaign, Andrew Lansley, Arthritis Care, Asthma UK, better does not have to cost the earth, blueprint health, BMJ editor, britain innovation system+science+technology+investment+open access+support entrepreneurial companies+mobile finance+new approach to education+training+learning, can information technology improve healthcare?, Canada, careware, chief learning officer, chronic healthcare+innovation, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, collaborative economy+collaborative enterprise, collaborative learning, commonwealth of community, commonwealth of society, communities of practice learning meaning and identity+etienne wenger, community of practice+learning, corporate learning+challenge+practice, cultural change and innovation in organizations, customised learning programmes, data and healthcare, david cameron+innovation uk, designing a lightweight healthcare system, designing for the collective good, Diabetes UK, Dr Fiona Godlee, Epilepsy Trust, ethical learning, from vertical to networked, future of health+future of nhs, google to pull plug on power meter and health services, great ormond street hospital, groups+transparency, harnessing collective intelligence+healthcare, health care as commodity, health cloud, Health literacy, health reimbursement arrangements, healthcare facing design challenge, HealthUnlocked, henry jenkins+howard rheingold+barbara ehrenreich+amartya sen+eric beinhocker+yochai benkler+robert axelrod+robert putman+manuel castells+jan van dijk+john kay+will hutton+jerrold seigel+jane jacobs+e, Human operating system+humanOS, immersive interfaces+mlearning, industry transformation learning, informal learning and empowering people, innovating learning through design and architecture, innovative learning prrograms, integrated care, integrating learning with business process, intelligent life+intelligent machines+intelligent houses+smart cities+intuitive computers+alan kay networks+knowldge based network economies+open ended evolution+human purpose chris langton+jaron lani, John Berger, kaiser permamente+health innovationn+Kaiser Foundation Health Plans+Kaiser Foundation Hospitals+George C. 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Peter Day BBC interview on No Straight Lines
Peter Day hears from Alan Moore author of No Straight Lines: making sense of our non-linear world and asks him ‘what next’ for the industrialised world. In his book he argues that the industrialised world is facing the combined problems of social, organisational and economic complexity. In this edition of Global Business he tells Peter Day how No Straight Lines interprets the disruptive trends shaping our world and how companies can address the challenges and move onwards and upwards. Continue reading
March 18, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged a pedagogy of multiliteracies: designing social futures+bill cope, adaptive organization, Ambiguity, better society, better world+human manifesto, bric countries+new approach to innovation, britain innovation revolution, britain innovation system+science+technology+investment+open access+support entrepreneurial companies+mobile finance+new approach to education+training+learning, britain+public finance, buckminster fuller+world as super connected information system, business and community, can information technology improve healthcare?, capra fritjof+the web of life, Carl Jung+I needs we to truly be I+community, center for democracy and technology, challenges of social organization, changing lives by changing life chances, character of civic virtue, Charles Handy, chicago school+hayek+friedman+neoclassical economics+market fundamentalism, china+automotive, chronic healthcare+innovation, civic entrepreneurship, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, co-op 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Who is reading No Straight Lines and what are people saying?
We are getting some great feedback for No Straight Lines. So here is a small collection of what people have said about the book and project. Continue reading
February 28, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Britain+general strike+education+pensions+unfair, business as a service+business as a platform, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, collaborative economy+collaborative enterprise, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, designing for service+designing with data, Ethics, Executive pay, future of business+future of retail, future of health+future of nhs, Health literacy, henry jenkins+howard rheingold+barbara ehrenreich+amartya sen+eric beinhocker+yochai benkler+robert axelrod+robert putman+manuel castells+jan van dijk+john kay+will hutton+jerrold seigel+jane jacobs+e, Human operating system+humanOS, life sciences strategy+department of business+patient concern, Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, n+open source+ontario+nesta+technology strategy board+curatiba+mobile health+mhealth+ecommerce+etsy.com+ebay+apple+agriculture+android+amazon+achuar+arab spring+ansari+bric+argentia+china+india+julian, open democracy+civil society+ethics, open health+open data+open data records, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling, patients know best+local motors+growvc+africa+mobile+creative commons+yeo valley farms+lego+amazon watch+grameen phone+london data store+c, politics+participatory cultures+mobile+communication+gestalt switch, regional development+job creation+inward investment+euro crisis+micropayments+mobile education+wiki classrooms+worldreader.org, social market foundation, social+market+foundation+john kay+ed milliband+capitalism+markets+executive pay+moral society+moral business+Jesse Norman+matthew hancock+, tea party+occupy wall street+occupy movement+Sherrod Brown+Ben S. Bernanke+Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis+Kenneth D. Lewis+bank of america+Jamie Dimon+JPMorgan Chase+TAF borrowings+Henry M. Pauls, the future of collaborative enterprise+future leadership+the future of work+new business models, TopCoder, Vince Cable, world bank+imf+demos+new economics+complexity
Book Review of No Straight Lines
What Alan Moore does really effectively is create a bridge from this thinking to the observations and thoughts of people like Seth Godin, Stephen Pressfield, Derek Sivers and John Hagel to paint a picture of how to add the “What” and “How” to the very large “Why” he describes. The book is well written, thoroughly researched and is a great base refence source for those of us interested in and committed to helping enable the change he foresees Continue reading
February 23, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
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Reschooling our selves for a non-linear world
A short video introducing some of the core themes of the book No Straight Lines: making sense of our non-linear worldf Continue reading
February 15, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
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What makes the Do Lectures in Wales so special?
A short story about an amazing experience that I would recommend to anyone with an inquiring mind Continue reading
February 10, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, social+market+foundation+john kay+ed milliband+capitalism+markets+executive pay+moral society+moral business+Jesse Norman+matthew hancock+, The Do Lectures+Wales+inpiration+talks
The No Straight Lines challenge: be realistic imagine the impossible
What do these have in common?
A car company built around a global community as an organisation, enabled by combining flex manufacturing techniques, open source platforms, open legal frameworks and social communication technologies premised upon cooperation, fuelled by the desire to be a great company and green; that can build cars 5 times faster at 100 times less the capital costs. A crisis management platform and organisation born out of the Kenyan post-election crisis of 2008 that can record critical information of events unfolding on the ground via a blend of location-based data, eyewitness accounts and mobile telephony, from often hard to reach places which visualises those unfolding events so that others can act and direct action at internet speeds. And now utilised for free in many parts of the world. Or, the largest organic diary farm in Britain, that has evolved a methodology that allows it to remain autonomous, profitable and sustainable in a market that is acutely volatile, because large-scale agricultural farming is mostly run on an oil-based economy, plus diary farmers are at the calculating mercy of the marketing needs and whimsies of large chain supermarkets. Continue reading
January 24, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Britain+general strike+education+pensions+unfair, business as a service+business as a platform, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, collaborative economy, designing for a complex world, designing for service+designing with data, Education, Ethics, Executive pay, future of business+future of retail, future of health+future of nhs, Health literacy, Lego, nhs+reform+andrew lansley, No Straight Lines, open democracy+civil society+ethics, open health+open data+open data records, Vince Cable, world bank+imf+demos+new economics+complexity
NO Straight Lines becoming required reading
Nice to see NO Straight Lines making it to discerning readers bookshelves. Continue reading
January 23, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Britain+general strike+education+pensions+unfair, business as a service+business as a platform, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for service+designing with data, Education, Ethics, Executive pay, future of business+future of retail, future of health+future of nhs, henry jenkins+howard rheingold+barbara ehrenreich+amartya sen+eric beinhocker+yochai benkler+robert axelrod+robert putman+manuel castells+jan van dijk+john kay+will hutton+jerrold seigel+jane jacobs+e, Human operating system+humanOS, life sciences strategy+department of business+patient concern, n+open source+ontario+nesta+technology strategy board+curatiba+mobile health+mhealth+ecommerce+etsy.com+ebay+apple+agriculture+android+amazon+achuar+arab spring+ansari+bric+argentia+china+india+julian, open democracy+civil society+ethics, open health+open data+open data records, Operating system, patients know best+local motors+growvc+africa+mobile+creative commons+yeo valley farms+lego+amazon watch+grameen phone+london data store+c, politics+participatory cultures+mobile+communication+gestalt switch, tea party+occupy wall street+occupy movement+Sherrod Brown+Ben S. Bernanke+Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis+Kenneth D. Lewis+bank of america+Jamie Dimon+JPMorgan Chase+TAF borrowings+Henry M. Pauls, the future of collaborative enterprise+future leadership+the future of work+new business models, world bank+imf+demos+new economics+complexity
The last of the Kodak moments
When faced with an ambiguous world some move into that world, and embrace it to understand it, listen deeply and think very hard about transformation – how to transform, how to design for transformation. This is a very hard thing to do and few do it well. I am sure we are all a little sad of the passing of Kodak. Continue reading
January 20, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Ambiguity, Arthur C. Clarke, Carlota Perez, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, designing for service+designing with data, Eastman Kodak, FujiFilm, Kodak, Lego, n+open source+ontario+nesta+technology strategy board+curatiba+mobile health+mhealth+ecommerce+etsy.com+ebay+apple+agriculture+android+amazon+achuar+arab spring+ansari+bric+argentia+china+india+julian, Nokia, nokia+crisis, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling, regional development+job creation+inward investment+euro crisis+micropayments+mobile education+wiki classrooms+worldreader.org, systems thinking+systems design+simplexity
Education, technology and the almost forgotten skill of craftsmanship
In John Naughton’s article about technology and education in I smiled a wry smile, as Naughton gave his perspective on how out-of-step current education is with the modern world, as we currently know it. Having just taken my dyslexic son out of state education, because the systemic way it wanted to school my child was too painful to watch from the sidelines any longer. I nodded along with his assessment, whilst reaching once again for my credit card, rather than reaching for the phone to the deputy head (the big head wont see me I am not important enough). What is happening is that the national curriculum’s worthy aspirations to educate pupils about ICT are transmuted at the chalkface into teaching kids to use Microsoft software. Our children are mostly getting ICT training rather than ICT education. And if you can’t see the difference, try this simple thought-experiment: replace “ICT” with “sex” and see which you’d prefer in that context: education or training? Continue reading
January 18, 2012
Craftsmanship / Education / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, designing for a complex world, future education+strawberry pi+tinkering+play, henry jenkins+howard rheingold+barbara ehrenreich+amartya sen+eric beinhocker+yochai benkler+robert axelrod+robert putman+manuel castells+jan van dijk+john kay+will hutton+jerrold seigel+jane jacobs+e, n+open source+ontario+nesta+technology strategy board+curatiba+mobile health+mhealth+ecommerce+etsy.com+ebay+apple+agriculture+android+amazon+achuar+arab spring+ansari+bric+argentia+china+india+julian, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling
Thank you to Founders Space for guesting my post on Crowdfunding
Dear Steve Hoffman, Thank you Founders Space for kindly hosting my post [The NEXT Silicon Valley is not a place it’s a platform] on the possibilities of crowdfunding for entrepreneurs.
January 13, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, business as a service+business as a platform, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, designing for service+designing with data, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling, world bank+imf+demos+new economics+complexity
Thanks to Jo Pine for the thumbs up on No Straight Lines
‘Anyone worried about where business is going in today’s chaotic world – and everyone concerned with where it should be going – must read No Straight Lines Continue reading
January 3, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, business as a service+business as a platform, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, designing for service+designing with data, future of business+future of retail, future of health+future of nhs, henry jenkins+howard rheingold+barbara ehrenreich+amartya sen+eric beinhocker+yochai benkler+robert axelrod+robert putman+manuel castells+jan van dijk+john kay+will hutton+jerrold seigel+jane jacobs+e, New Humanist, open democracy+civil society+ethics, politics+participatory cultures+mobile+communication+gestalt switch, systems thinking+systems design+simplexity, tea party+occupy wall street+occupy movement+Sherrod Brown+Ben S. Bernanke+Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis+Kenneth D. Lewis+bank of america+Jamie Dimon+JPMorgan Chase+TAF borrowings+Henry M. Pauls, The Experience Economy, world bank+imf+demos+new economics+complexity
The funding of science and venture capital in a non-linear world
The whole spectrum of sciences, including vitally important areas such as cleantech, life sciences and biotech, and engineering, is facing extreme upheaval, particularly related to the funding of scientific research. In an overall difficult economic situation, cuts by governments in the area of blue-skies research and less funding available from corporates have created an environment in which the funding of science that is not immediately of commercial value is seen as unnecessary, imprudent, and wasteful. OK – so how do we solve that? Continue reading
December 22, 2011
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Catholic University of Leuven, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, designing for a complex world, Harvard Business School, henry jenkins+howard rheingold+barbara ehrenreich+amartya sen+eric beinhocker+yochai benkler+robert axelrod+robert putman+manuel castells+jan van dijk+john kay+will hutton+jerrold seigel+jane jacobs+e, Human operating system+humanOS, John Seely Brown, Karim R. Lakhani, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling, politics+participatory cultures+mobile+communication+gestalt switch, systems thinking+systems design+simplexity, the future of collaborative enterprise+future leadership+the future of work+new business models, TopCoder, Venture capital, Victoria Cross, world bank+imf+demos+new economics+complexity
The NEXT Silicon Valley is not a place it's a platform
It wont be the banks, and it wont be the VC’s – so WHAT’s NEXT for the funding of innovative and entrepreneurial companies – that small spark which fires nascent, embryonic companies into life? How do we fast track those companies to maturity? As right now faced with the increasing speed it seems of the decay of an old industrial system all countries need more startups. Continue reading
December 17, 2011
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Britain+general strike+education+pensions+unfair, business as a service+business as a platform, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, Entrepreneur, future of business+future of retail, Grow VC International Limited, GrowVC, henry jenkins+howard rheingold+barbara ehrenreich+amartya sen+eric beinhocker+yochai benkler+robert axelrod+robert putman+manuel castells+jan van dijk+john kay+will hutton+jerrold seigel+jane jacobs+e, Human operating system+humanOS, innovation workshops, Lego, open democracy+civil society+ethics, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling, Silicon Valley, social+market+foundation+john kay+ed milliband+capitalism+markets+executive pay+moral society+moral business+Jesse Norman+matthew hancock+, Startup company, systems thinking+systems design+simplexity, the future of collaborative enterprise+future leadership+the future of work+new business models, what's next in funding+what's next in venture capital
Science: ideology and politics
Scientific discovery by its very nature pushes new boundaries. In so doing, it asks questions of ourselves, our humanity, our ethical perspectives. It cantilevers multiple reactions and forces us into ambiguous places. But we should not take fundamentalist views and perspectives because without scientific discovery we diminish ourselves Continue reading
December 16, 2011
Ambiguity / Education / Openness / System breakdown
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, designing for a complex world, Human operating system+humanOS, life sciences strategy+department of business+patient concern, politics+participatory cultures+mobile+communication+gestalt switch, Republican War on Science, Rush Limbaugh, Science and technology in the United States, Science Debate 2008, science+theology, Shawn Lawrence Otto, systems thinking+systems design+simplexity, trilemma
Welcome to machine - human nature is not like a machine
What does the future of work look like, and why is that so deeply connected to well-being, and also HOW we create better organisational working models that better suit humanity? Continue reading
Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, business as a service+business as a platform, Capitalism, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, craftsmanship, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, designing for service+designing with data, designing the smart organisation, Douglas Rushkoff, future of business+future of retail, Human operating system+humanOS, Industrialisation, nonlinear innovation, Richard Sennett, Russ Ackoff, Systems thinking, the future of collaborative enterprise+future leadership+the future of work+new business models, the toyota way
The £2 Chicken: the adaptive edge of food production and consumption
On BBC Radio 4 today the food programme explored how we are at the adaptive edge of how we farm and retail food. With growing economies like China we are beginning to be squeezed by the needs and demands of other countries. In the BBC 4 programme Dan Saladino explores how higher food prices are changing what we buy and how we eat. From increases in food related crime to shortages of ingredients, he asks, what else is in store? Continue reading
December 11, 2011
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, crop rotation+green manure+compost+biological pest contro+genetically modified organisms+plant growth regulators+food additives+Organic Agriculture Movements+Food quality and safety+Climate change+Far, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, DO Lectures, Food, Food & Drug Administration, food+supermarkets+agriculture+yeo valley+organic+defra+soil association+do lectures+dan saladino+supermarkets+volatility+complexity, henry jenkins+howard rheingold+barbara ehrenreich+amartya sen+eric beinhocker+yochai benkler+robert axelrod+robert putman+manuel castells+jan van dijk+john kay+will hutton+jerrold seigel+jane jacobs+e, Human operating system+humanOS, Joel Salatin, Polyface Farm
The no straight lines of innovation
It is interesting that Africa is innovating in mobile and tech in extraordinary ways – simply because of, the hunger to make for a better life, and, to use what is available to hand, even though constrained. Constraint fires the imagination. Continue reading
December 10, 2011
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, business as a service+business as a platform, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, Dave Snowden, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, François Jacob, future of health+future of nhs, henry jenkins+howard rheingold+barbara ehrenreich+amartya sen+eric beinhocker+yochai benkler+robert axelrod+robert putman+manuel castells+jan van dijk+john kay+will hutton+jerrold seigel+jane jacobs+e, No Straight Lines, open democracy+civil society+ethics, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling, systems thinking+systems design+simplexity
Lessons in the future of mobile communications
How does mobile communications enhance, and enable enterprise, communities, organisations, even governments, to become more effective, to become more lightweight, agile and connected? And what are the 7 questions organisations should be asking themselves? Continue reading
December 9, 2011
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged administration+data collection+collaboration, alan moore+no straight lines, Android, BlackBerry, Business and Economy, business as a service+business as a platform, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, data+eco-systems+applications+designing with mobile+IBM+dynamic data+kindle+text eagle+girls walker+japan+africa+mhealth+mwallet+Mservices+machine to machine+ automotive+Mobile Broadband+LTE+the futur, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, designing for service+designing with data, Human operating system+humanOS, immersive interfaces+mlearning, Mobile phone, Mpesa, n+open source+ontario+nesta+technology strategy board+curatiba+mobile health+mhealth+ecommerce+etsy.com+ebay+apple+agriculture+android+amazon+achuar+arab spring+ansari+bric+argentia+china+india+julian, open democracy+civil society+ethics, open health+open data+open data records, regional development+job creation+inward investment+euro crisis+micropayments+mobile education+wiki classrooms+worldreader.org, Telecommunications
Britain microfinance and designing for the human(OS)
Our current banking systems locks people into poverty, 6 million people in the UK do not have access to a bank account. But there is another way. This is that story. In NSL we write about another extraordinary person, Faisal Rahman, who belongs to the “don’t just stand there Do something brigade”, so he set up Fair Finance for Business. A bank for the very poor. Faisal says we need to design money systems around people, all people. Not around the needs of a few Continue reading
Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / System breakdown
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Business, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, Economic development, Environment Trust, Human operating system+humanOS, Microfinance, moral capitalism+fair finance for business+innovation+banking+poverty+dalston+loan sharking+maria nowak+ADIE, open democracy+civil society+ethics, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling, social+market+foundation+john kay+ed milliband+capitalism+markets+executive pay+moral society+moral business+Jesse Norman+matthew hancock+, systems thinking+systems design+simplexity, world bank+imf+demos+new economics+complexity
Mothercare needs to acquire the new literacy of business
In November 2011 retailer Mothercare reported devastating financial losses dipping some £80m into the red. There is no doubt we are in hard economic times – but there is more to this story. As Executive chairman Alan Parker, made the … Continue reading
November 28, 2011
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Ben Gordon, business as a service+business as a platform, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for service+designing with data, fortune 500, future of business+future of retail, future of the high street, John Berger, making sense of a non-linear world, Mothercare, Seymour Pierce, top shop