Archives: participatory culture+tools
What's next for banking?
I have enjoyed Mosaic Ventures blog on the unbundling of the banks. Their observation that it is not a new bank that we need but a new way of banking. There is in my view an inevitability to the arrival of a new ecosystem, as our world evolves that will serve us even better. But to do so we have to have fundamental redesign of what a businesses looks like. Mostly its design is distributed, networked and peer to peer. Continue reading
July 17, 2015
Adaptiveness / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Angels Den, banking, banking ethical alternatives, Crowd funding, crowdcube, Design, fintech, funding circle, Investment, London, Mosaic ventures, p2p lending, Seedrs, zopa
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
How do you rule the void once the party's over?
Earlier this year I read the late Peter Mair’s Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy. It got me thinking, because as I observed in Chapter 5 of No Straight Lines, we are in a process of political transformation. A transformation of how we organise and run our societies. I ask the question, what should government look like in a non-linear world? Are we creating and running systems in the right way? Why is it that so many people are disengaged with the process of democracy and civil organisations? Continue reading
November 1, 2014
Adaptiveness / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown
Tagged absolute power politics and communications, environmental politics, euro scepticism, extreme far right politics, local politics+national government+credit associations+electoral turnout+politcal divide, media politics, media politics and the crisis of democracy, media+politics+identity construction, p2p political society, politics of participation, rejection of traditional politics, ruling the void, scottish rural parliament, study of local parliaments
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
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
Waste to Waves a story from the circular economy
This a story about how we can think differently about material waste, upcycling, ans the circular economy. Sustainable Surf (sustainablesurf.org), and Waste to Waves. Sustainable Surf is a California-based 501(c)(3) non-profit charity organization founded by social entrepreneurs, located in the heart of the Southern CA surfing industry. Their Mission: Be the catalyst that transforms surf culture and industry into a powerful community that protects what they call, the ocean playground. Continue reading
July 5, 2014
Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Business, carbon neutral production, Circular economy, designing for transformation, Environment, European Commission, flute office, green business, green economics, moving towards a circular economy, nonlinear innovation, sustainable surf, systems design in the circular economy, the carbon neutral economy, Upcycling, Vimeo, Waste, Waste Management, whole systems practice
Juliana Rotich on Ushahidi mapping humanitarian needs
Juliana Rotich’s talk on Ushahidi where it came from and where it is going. In talking about innovation Julia says, if it works in Africa it can work anywhere. Out of adversity comes innovation. I am proud to be part of the advisory board for Ushahidi. Continue reading
July 4, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Africa, Big data, creating open innovation, designing for transformation, designing with data, future of ngo's, innovation africa, Kenya, mapping humanitarian crisis, nonlinear innovation, Open innovation, rapid innovation, Technology, transformational design, ushahidi, ushahidi hacking the future, working for the collective good
Humanity's greatest gift, an awesome book of love
Yael Staav’s poignant and emotional interpretation of Dallas Clayton’s celebrated storybook, An Awesome Book of Love, shows us that love is truly humanity’s greatest gift. Continue reading
July 1, 2014
Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Awesome Book of Love, compassion and the workplace, Dallas Clayton, goddess of selfless love, Lewis Hyde, love, love as wisdom, No Straight Lines, on beauty, Relationships, selfless love, shri radha, simon haas, smlxl, tashi mannox, the book of dharma, the loving organisation, wisdom as love, Yael Staav
Ex CIA spy says Open Collaborative Cultures Win
A fascinating article (The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% – ex CIA spy) written by Nafeez Ahmed about Robert David Steele and his thesis that Open and Collaborative systems are the only means by which we will meaningfully move forward. Open Collaborative organisations remove the traditional constraints placed upon any organisation. It permits the asking of powerful framing questions. These framing questions enable us to see what others don’t. Open source regenerative business models and the decentralised organisation become mainstream. This allows the scale of the problems we face to be met by participatory and collaborative systems and cultures. These organisations work towards a higher order purpose. This higher order purpose delivers consistently higher performance with outcomes that are truly authentic, more resilient and relevant. Continue reading
June 28, 2014
Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged collaborative economics, conscious capitalism, future of democracy, Green capitalism, Lee Smolin, monumental change, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, nonlinear innovation, open cities, open democracy, open economy, Open Source, open source principles, open source revolution, Open-source intelligence, Robert David Steele, smlxl, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Steele, the 1%, the 99%, the commons based economy, the open organization, the restorative economy, the tragedy of the commons, United States, Wealth of Networks
Joel Salatin on the potential of large scale organic farming
Joel Salatin is America’s most celebrated pioneer of chemical-free farming. Here Joel gives a powerful talk on why our current industrial way of farming is so wrong in so many ways. Demonstrating the potential of how we can do it differently – better and more in step with the way of the natural world. Salatin says we can feed the world but not by industrial methods. Continue reading
June 22, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown
Tagged 12 permaculture design principles, 7 ways organic farms outperfom conventional farms, animal welfare, carbon futures, diary farming, economics of food miles, farm hack, future british farming, investing is sustainable agriculture, Joel Salatin, lady eve balfour+organic farming, Myra Goodman, nonlinear innovation, organic farming and biodiversity, organic farming methods, sustainable agriculture, the resilient community, zero budget farming+the lightweight farm
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
De Hogeweyk dementia village
De Hogeweyk or Hogewey is a gated model village setting in Weesp, in The Netherlands. It is notable because it has been designed specifically as a pioneering care facility for elderly people with dementia. The major advances achieved by the approach of all-day reminiscence therapy at Hogewey, compared to traditional nursing homes, is that the residents with dementia are more active and require less medication. Carers, doctors and nurses work around the clock to provide the 152 residents the necessary 24-hour care. Continue reading
June 10, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alzheimer's disease, De Hogeweyk, Dementia, future health care, hacking healthcare, healthcare innovation, Hogewey, Holland, Netherlands, nonlinear innovation, reinventing the NHS, Weesp
Healthcare innovation Integrated Neurological Services
Integrated Neurological Services (INS) was founded in 1999 by Liz Grove and Ellie Kinnear. Its purpose to help patients with Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, stroke and other neurological complaints that affect movement, memory, balance and communication, everything essential to a normal life. The charity works to make a real difference between a life devastated by severe illness and a life that makes the most of the opportunities still available. Continue reading
June 9, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged disease, human centric healthcare, innovation healthcare, INS, Integrated Neurological Services, Multiple sclerosis, National Health Service, nonlinear innovation, Nordic walking, Parkinson, Parkinson's disease, Patient, physical therapy
Shan Williams what do you do when your town is dying?
Up and down the country, our towns are dying. When convenience became the precedent over local, we opened the doors for the conglomerates and they made themselves at home. Our highstreets now consist of the big names, charity shops and abandoned units that reek of recession. You can practically see tumble weeds. In one of the most humbling and emotionally driven DO Lectures, Shan Williams spoke of her organisation 4CG, a group of people that are solely dedicated to the regeneration of their town, and how it all started in a council meeting when a prime site came up for sale in her beloved town of Cardigan. Have some tissues near to hand. Continue reading
May 23, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Cardigan Bay, cocreating culture, collaborative economies, communities and locality, creating vibrant towns and cities, david Hieatt, forced economic migration, forced migration, future local economies, future of towns and cities, local food economies, low carbon economy, nonlinear innovation, Odense, people power, people powered innovation, resilient energy, revitalizing rural economies, shared purcharse agreements, the do lectures, wales
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
The human need to transcend
Kenan Malik writing in his excellent article about the sacred in art, explores the capacity of the sacred to go beyond religion to become a necessary part of what makes us human. Continue reading
April 20, 2014
Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Divine Comedy, God, Holocaust, Human, human centered design, Kenan Malik, nonlinear innovation, Nova Scotia, participatory cultures, participatory leadership, Stanford Social Innovation Review, the sacred in every day life, Transcendence, trust based leadership
The journey to a commons based economy
When astronauts go into space and looking down at the earth, an image we all know, but in another way do not know at all. They find themselves having a deep spiritual connection with the earth, within themselves that is shocking and beautiful. Theirs is a profound moment of epiphany – a realisation, of the inseparable relationship between the cosmos, the Earth and humanity. This is not a ‘oooh woow’ moment, it is in fact a moment of transformation, of catharsis, an irreversible cognitive shift. Continue reading
April 9, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, commons based economy, designing for the collective good, designing for the humanOS, edgar mitchell, humanizing our economy, living systems economy, nonlinear innovation, open government, overview effect, p2p society, participatory leadership, salva corpus amanti, single consciousness, the restorative economy, transformation, transformation economy, transformation society, unity of everything
Lina Bo Bardi shaping the world through a love of humanity
When we design around the the needs of humanity, when we put humanity at the core of our process – we have the potential to create extraordinary things. Not to design humanity an culture out of the process of creation but to weave it in. Sounds obvious does it not? But the truth is we have created too many systems, organisations, buildings that do not acknowledge our humanity. Lina Bo Bardi an Italian who moved to Brazil is an example of someone that believed profoundly in designing and creating buildings around the needs of human beings. Continue reading
March 8, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Bo Bardi, Brazil, commons based economy, Design, designing for the human, future architecture, human directed architecture, Italy, Lina Bo Bardi, Milan, new perspectives on architecture, nonlinear innovation, São Paulo, the human operating system, values based architecture, working with architecture and nature
Leadership in a commons based economy
the problem of our current economic debate is that we are trying to solve 21st century problems with 19th and 20th century economic thought. That is: our discourse is stuck between “more markets and free enterprise” (2.0) and “more regulation and government” (3.0). In reality, neither of these approaches will suffice. This new philosophy is something that I explore in No Straight Lines -the means by which we can transform. Continue reading
March 4, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged A restorative economy, Activism, Alan Moore, American Enterprise Institute, capitalism 4.0, commons based economy, Environment, leadership in a participatory economy, Michael Sandel, natural capitalism, No Straight Lines, nonlinear economy, nonlinear innovation, Otto Scharmer, p2p economy, participatory organizations, participatory society, six principles no straight lines, the new civic engagement, the new leadership
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
Rethinking how we build homes in the UK
Here are 10 ways of taking a more humane and commons based approach to how we could live. Continue reading
February 2, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged A common sense approach to building, Affordable housing, Alan Moore, Alejandro Aravena, Borneo-Sporenburg Amsterdam, building and the commons economy, community housing innovation, Community land trust, diversity in design, Horsmonden, Ijburg, innovation in architecture, innovation in housing, Iquique, land economy, margaret thatcher, Newton Community Land Trust, No Straight Lines, open commons region, openness is resilience, renewable buildings, restorative economy, self build innovation, self organising communities, Stroud, the cost of land, the low carbon economy, the new economics of building, Torre David Caracas
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
Zaid Hassan: sensing, and connecting to a whole reality
I am came across this lovely insight by Zaid Hassan, in The U: A Language of Regeneration. As Russ Ackoff said a hole is spelt with a W. In my journey this reality that others cannot see the whole, happens 99% of the time in organizations, as Deming points to the 94/6 rule, where 94% of problems can be traced to the process and only 6% to the person – when systems are fixed. Therefore sensing the entire system is key. Continue reading
January 8, 2014
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, art of hosting, chaordic process leadership, collective sensing for collective truth, Deming 94/6 rule, emergent leadership, finding collective truth, human systems of leadership, leadership and deep democracy, Lee Smolin, No Straight Lines, opening the heart of an organization, participatory decision making, participatory leadership, philosophy of logic, practices for regeneration, The U: A Language of Regeneration, the struggle between efficiency and creativity, toke moller, transformation scotland, working with complexity, working with openness, working with power of complexity, Zaid Hassan
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
Crowdfunding, everyone funding startups
Crowdfunding changes the rules for investing: In many ways Crowdfunding has come about because the Venture Capital market for startups has failed. So it is not surprising that a wide variety of startups are now finding their initial capital from crowdfunding platforms. It is predicted that by 2014 $5.1bn will have been raised through crowdfunding platforms. Continue reading
December 5, 2013
Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, angel investing, best crowdfunding in UK, crowdcube, crowdfunding, crowdfunding manchester, crowdfunding nordics, crowdfunding scotland, crowdfunding UK, Equity crowdfunding for SMEs, evolution of venture funding, failure uk vc market, funding circle, future local economies, george osborne working until 70, innovation through smes, JOBS ACT, Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, Lawbite at google campus, Matthew Hancock MP, mosaic solar crowdfunding, National Crowdfunding Association, No Straight Lines, people powered innovation, Small and medium enterprises, startup britain, Startup company, syndicate room, uk crowdfunding association, United States, Venture capital
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
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
Lee Smolin and Robert MacFarlane seeing the power and potential of a chaotic world
One of our obsessions is to see chaos as uncontrollable, primordial, dangerous which we as a species must strive at all costs to eviscerate from our lives. As physicist Lee Smolin wrote in Time Reborn, “No living system is an isolated system. We all ride flows of matter and energy – flows driven ultimately by the energy from the sun. Once enclosed in a box (in a prefiguration of our eventual internment), we die”. Continue reading
November 26, 2013
Ambiguity / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged a complex world demands non-linear thinking, Alan Moore, art of hosting scotland, chaos theory, designing people powered organisations, Energy, enterprising futures schumacher, High performance organizations, Lee Smolin, Logical consequence, Mathematics, No Straight Lines, nonlinear innovation, nonlinear world, Nova Scotia, open systems design, openness new model society, openness resilience, Organization, Philosophy, six steps to transformation, Smolin, the power of chaos, transformational design
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
Russ Ackoff, a system is a hole with a W
a talk by Russ Ackoff – which is both funny and profound. His quote that a system is a (w)hole, spelt with a W was fantastic – his insight that a system is not a sum of its parts but a sum if the interactions that take place – genius for its clarity. He made the point that to understand this concept write a note with your writing hand, then cut it off and see what happens. He is known as the father of systems thinking. Continue reading
October 31, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Business, Clare Crawford-Mason, constraints of design, Continual improvement process, Deming, Dr. W. Edwards Deming, effectiveness vs efficiency, John Seddon, Lloyd Dobyns, No Straight Lines, nonlinear innovation, quality as effectiveness, quality of life, stafford beer, systems design, Systems thinking, the vanguard method, toyota way, true knowledge exists in a network, w edwards deming
The engaged organisation outperforms the disengaged organisation
a recent Gallup poll pulled up some interesting insights. Companies with engaged workforces achieve higher earnings than organisations that fail to engage their employees. Engaged organisations have 3.9 times the earnings per share growth rate compared to an organisation with lower engagement in the same industry. Continue reading
October 30, 2013
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, art of hosting, Barbara Ehrenreich, designing the smart organization, employee engagement, Gallup, Generation Y, green business, humanos, Job Growth, John Seddon, lean business, No Straight Lines, non-linear innovation, nova scotia+participatory leadership+Tim Merry+art of hosting, participatory leadership, radical redesign business, Richard Sennett, the engaged organization, toyota way, United States
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
Welcome to the Shoreditch Village Hall
Last night I was invited to the official opening of the Shoreditch Village Hall, accessed via Hoxton Square. Because of my age and my interests, I am very familiar with Hoxton Square, over 25 years I have watched it rise … Continue reading
October 11, 2013
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, anthropology+cultural studies+networked identity, community and place, community innovation, crowdfunding, culture+meaning+identity, ferdinand tönnies, gift community+value of gift exchange, heimat, Hoxton Square, human identity+society, lewis hyde and the erotic life of property, London, modern identity+collective identity, narrative+place, No Straight Lines, participatory cultures, politics of place, power of place, Shoreditch, Shoreditch Village Hall, social innovation, tech city, Village Hall
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
People embrace what they create in Istanbul
It was Jamie Lerner the Mayor of Curitiba who when he took office and facing many challenges decided to galvanise his citizens into life to make Curitiba work. Lerner said the work they undertook should be fun, fast and above all non-expensive. The idea that we own, or have ownership over our civic spaces is very important. Home, hearth, kith and kin are all about belonging and identity. So this is a small story about those things. Continue reading
September 12, 2013
Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, alliance for community media activism, architecture of authority, city planning, civic engagement, civic engagement in a networked society, collaborative media, Community media, consequences of power and participatory media, Curitiba, government as servant to the people, Huseyin Cetinel, informed citizenry+democracy, Istanbul, Jamie Lerner, Jane Jacobs, Lerner, Letchworth Garden City, Mayor, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, No Straight Lines, non-linear innovation, p2p society, participatory cultures, people power, power of social innovation, public man+dead public space+public roles in cities+limits on public expression+man as actor+life in the 19th Century+industrial capitalism and public life+localizing the city+personality in public, Richard Ross, social innovation, the country and the city, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Turkey, Welwyn Garden City
The Almonte horsemen community and craftsmanship
Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? A short film about the Almonte horsemen. The narration is very simple but eloquent, that talks philosophically about meaning, identity, nature, belonging, ethics, community and the joy that comes from being committed to ones craft. Continue reading
September 8, 2013
Craftsmanship / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, Almonte horsemen, American Craftsman, business ethics, collective craftsmanship, craftman, craftsmanship, design thinking, designing resilient food systems, environmental policy+social science+ethics+biology, ethics+sequence of generations, future of society, human nature, life of craftsmanship, maker movement, natural capitalism, new systems of ethics, No Straight Lines, nonlinear design, openness+resilience, organizational design, Paul Hawken, principles of craftsmanship, Richard Sennett, sustainable communities+sustainable economies, Systems thinking, the crafted organization, the fitness of human nature, the nature and the structure of the self, the nature of the firm, The total, the total+what we take+what we make+what we waste, the wholeness of nature+bortoft, understanding the constructed nature of community, values system
True knowledge exists in a network
Lee Smolin describes our universe at an atomic level as curved, open, diverse and highly networked, Manuel Castells describes our society as evolving into a networked one which as significant cultural and political implications, Janine Benyus talks about nature as a highly networked open, diverse eco-system from which we as humans have much to learn revolutionising how we invent, compute, heal ourselves, harness energy, repair the environment, and feed the world. Continue reading
August 26, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature, designing for transformation, designing resilient food systems, firm of the future, holistic design, human centered design, Janine Benyus, knowledge, Lee Smolin, living systems, Manuel Castell, multi-disciplinary design, natural ecosystems, Network Society, networks and disruption of traditional organization, networks as power, Open system (systems theory), open systems design, organizational design, power of networks, systems based design, systems vision of the world
A handcrafted particle accelerator
Patrick Stevenson Keating created a handcrafted glass particle accelerator in what I would describe as an act of true craftsmanship. The piece consists of a series of organically-shaped hand-blown glass bulbs – each attached to a pump via a tube to create a vacuum. When the button is pushed, a voltage of 45,000V is applied across two electrodes. Continue reading
August 22, 2013
Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Anatoli Bugorski, Doctor of Philosophy, Glass, hacking culture, hacking the future, hacktivism, hand made, Institute for High Energy Physics, Joule, maker movement, No Straight Lines, non-linear innovation, open hardware, open science, open source+open access, participatory cultures, Particle accelerator, Proton beam, Protvino, science commons, systems hacking, visible light
Humanness of network knowledge
when we see things really scale up on the net, as we do with Wikipedia or some of the large collaborative projects like Linux and Debian and the like, the decision making changes, and rather than thinking, oh, we’ll find one person who’s smart enough to make decisions, no, we have a network, let’s do this in a networked way. And what are networks good at? Well, if a decision can be kept local, the person who knows most about the thing is the person who is dealing with it every day, the local decision. Continue reading
August 11, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Business, co-creation, compexity, Corporation, crowdfund, crowdfunding, Debian, Decision making, Hacking, harvesting natural systems, kevin kelly, leadership, Linux, natural systems, No Straight Lines, participatory cultures, participatory tools, systemns design, Systems thinking, the biology of machines, ushahidi, values based organization, Wikipedia
Crowdfunding, goteo, localism, and non-linear innovation
Goteo demonstrates a people / community centered design approach to getting stuff done, bottom up networked, where everyone has something to give and something to gain. If we are looking for a pattern one can also point to Mosaic Banking on the sun, a community investing in sustainable energy. Collective crowdfunding is also part of a global movement to go around those institutions that people believe have failed them. Embedded in such design is a philosophy of networked sociability, and trust. As none of this works without it. It points to an alternative model of funding local projects which also mitigates risk. Continue reading
August 7, 2013
Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, community production, crowdcube, crowdfund, design literacy, economy 2.0, Entrepreneur, future, IndieGoGo, Kickstarter, mondragon, New Economy, No Straight Lines, nonlinear innovation, open hardware, Open innovation, organizational design, p2p economy, p2p society, participatory cultures, participatory tools, RocketHub, seeders, smlxl, spain, systems design, the commons
6 steps to transform the way we do business
Published in The Guardian Sustainable Business. Our institutions, organisations and economies were conceived, designed and built for a simpler more linear world. Overwhelmed by complexity, these have become disrupted and unsustainable. There is an urgent need to transform our societies, organisations and economies by better design to thrive in what I call a “non-linear world”. Continue reading
August 3, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged 1010, Alan Moore, Business, Business model innovation, business models, Design, designing for transformation, dynamic adaptive systems, Earth, Economic model, economic systems thinking, enterprise open innovation, firm of the future, Guardian, Math, No Straight Lines, Nonlinear system, Open innovation, Organization, participatory cultures, participatory tools, Systems thinking
What do we know about participatory cultures?
Henry Jenkins interviews Aaron Delwiche and Jennifer Jacobs Henderson about their new book The Participatory Cultures Handbook. This is of great interest to me because Principle 4 of No Straight Lines is Participatory Cultures and Tools in a recent article for The Guardian (Six steps to transform the way we do business) I briefly explained the principle and why I believe it is a key component to our non-linear world, Continue reading
August 2, 2013
Adaptiveness / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, co-creation, co-design, collaborative design, Guardian, Henry Jenkins, Human, human centered design, human os, No Straight Lines, Nova Scotia, Open innovation, organisational design, p2p society, Participatory budgeting, participatory cultures, participatory tools, Patients Know Best, Straight Lines
Where do big ideas come from?
Recently I was participating a workshop that was exploring the question, where do big ideas come from? We were a group of 20 people and asked to bring with us 2 ideas each that we found intriguing, ideas that we were undecided about but wanted to explore. Then through an intense collaborative process over 2 days we explored those ideas, digging deeper into them, exploring their emergence, their context, their potential for good and also disruption. We explored patterns, connections and looked systemically at these ideas. Continue reading
July 30, 2013
Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, Copernican heliocentrism, design innovation, Galileo, Galileo Galilei, holistic design, Johannes Kepler, Kepler, learnign as collaborative process, learning process, Lee Smolin, No Straight Lines, organisational learning, participatory cultures, participatory leadership, pattern recognition, Salzburg, Scientific Revolution, smlxl, Systems thinking
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
How big data can help better understand social risks and opportunities
‘Black Swans turn Grey’: The risk landscape is undoubtedly shifting. PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers), invoking Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s recent book, posit that ‘Black Swans’ are increasingly ‘turning grey’. By this, they mean that previously catalytic and unforeseen events are becoming more regular; betraying an increased level of uncertainty faced by the global community in the face of growing connectivity and dependency. Continue reading
June 3, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Amnesty International, arab spring, BigData, Black Swan, crisis mananagement, enterprise risk management, No Straight Lines, non-linear thinking, political risk, predictive analytics, risk analysis, risk management, social data, social dynamics, social network theory, social networks, World Bank
Old World New World, connections, networks, pathways
Pilgrim paths, green roads, drove roads, corpse roads, trods, leys, dykes. drongs, sarns, snickets, holloways, bostles, shutes, driftways, lichways, ridings, halterpaths, cartways, carneys, causeways, herepaths. In Holland there are doodwegen and spookwegen – death roads and ghost roads. In Spain … Continue reading
May 30, 2013
Adaptiveness / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Big data, camino, communication based theory, communications media+political expression, disruption of the industrial age by networked world, global governance and the networked world, networked world, networks, No Straight Lines, richard long, sense making, sharing meaning in a networked world
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
What does the imprisonment of Andrew Auernheimer tell us?
No matter what the outcome, I will not be broken. I am antifragile, tweeted Andrew Auernheimer before he was wrestled to the floor in a US courtroom and received 41 months for hacking into the the database of AT&T and redistributing that information into the public domain. Continue reading
May 6, 2013
Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged aaron swartz, Alan Moore, at&t, Civil society, communication power, communities dominate brands, Democracy, Ethics, No Straight Lines, Social justice, the digital self, the networked society
Society, organisations, economies reshaped by mobile communications and big data
A few weeks ago I was in Miami, at the invitation of Blackberry giving the opening keynote based on the No Straight Lines project on how mobile technologies are reshaping and transforming our world. From the living breathing communications eco-system that is wrapping itself around the earth, to… Continue reading
May 5, 2013
Adaptiveness / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, augmented reality, bemobile 2013, Big data, BlackBerry, blended reality, chronic healthcare, chronic healthcare+innovation, cloud computing, collective intelligence, crisis maangement, data security, driverless cars, google glass, healthcare, m2m, machine to machine, mit media lab, mobile technologies, networked society, No Straight Lines, p2p society, Patients Know Best, pin wheel, rio de janerio, ropits, smart cities, ushahidi, world reader, Worldreader.org
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
innovation is really about people
This is a beautiful short essay on non-linear innovation, people and place Continue reading
April 12, 2013
Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, civic entrepreneurship, collective craftsmanship, community innovation, design literacy, hand+heart+mind, Innovation, No Straight Lines, non-linear innovation, participatory cultures, participatory leadership, social innovation
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
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
Big data and the sentient world
Chapter 5 of No Straight Lines addresses this emerging issue of data. The reason is that the fastest data set revolution is being created by you, every time we text search travel buy we add to the data mountain some 2.5 billion gigabytes a day we, that’s all of humanity are collectively writing a new consciousness into existence. In fact the architecture of our own brain suggests the future of sentience may reside in a different kind of BIG. The question is how do we make meaning out of this data? How can data help us meet the challenges in our daily lives, challenges for our cities, for our changing climate, the ever increasing demand to better manage the resources we have? Continue reading
April 7, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, BigData, cloud computing, cloud providers working with big data, control data institute, crowd aid exchange, data analytics, data architectures+social interaction, data meaning, data mining, data networks, data+democracy, data+health, data+marketing, data+prediction, data+society, Databases, designing with data, Environment, foursquare+girlswalker+sony+softbank+data+geo location+matrix+mixi+social networking+mobile business+mpesa, future data, Google, gps receivers, Hal Varian, Hurricane Katrina, location based data, machine to machine, meaning and data, No Straight Lines, Open Data, open regions+data, p2p+data, peer to peer networks, policing+crime+data, predicting crime, rio smart city, sentient world, smart cities, United States, unstructured data, wellness
The UK's social and economic design challenge
A design challenge of epic proportions: a number of conversations this week that has resulted in this post. One was related to four cities in the north of England and their urgent need to rethink and rebuild their local economies, with wellness as the heartbeat of a resilient economy. Then a conversation in my home town of Cambridge which explored the challenges that counties and regions around the UK now face as the UK divests itself of the structures that we call The State that provides services to society. It is a challenge because there will be a cumulative short fall in revenues over the next 5 years with nothing to replace it. Once we have divested these infrastructures there is no going back. Continue reading
April 6, 2013
Adaptiveness / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Arnold Heertje, collective intelligence, corazon aquino+people power movement, design for transformation, design thinking, designing for humanity, England, future civic society, Human, human os, human technologies, humanos, M. Scott Peck, No Straight Lines, open regions, p2p society, Participatory culture, people power, smlxl, Systems thinking, transformation lab
Marilyn Hamilton on wellness and urban life
In No Straight Lines I investigate the idea of what makes life worth living at a fundamental level. Why do we work, what is work, and more importantly what makes us as complete human beings as it quite clearly is not the current model. What price are we going to pay when we strip ourselves of the qualities that make us what we are? As Arnold Heertje argues we have lived in a quantitative and dehumanizing economic paradigm which has alienated human beings from their labour and social being. Continue reading
April 4, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown
Tagged Alan Moore, Charles Handy, civic progress, civic society, culture+meaning+identity, ecology of economy, Elisabet Sahtouris, gift economy, Human, John Helliwell, Lewis Hyde, local economies, Marilyn Hamilton, No Straight Lines, non-linear thinking, participatory cultures, pattern recognition, qualitative economics, resilient economies, Richard Sennett, Saskatoon, sharing identity, social innovation, Systems thinking, wellness
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
April 3, 2013
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
Ethan Zuckerman on civic media and network power
Ethan Zuckerman exploring and unpacking how participatory media helped unfold the Arab Spring. His belief is that that media production changes agency for people on the ground to effect political and social change. Continue reading
March 26, 2013
Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, arab spring, blogs of dissent, civic engagement in a networked society, civic participation+community media, civic society+repression, Civics, communities dominate brands, Daily Mail, Ethan Zuckerman, Henry Jenkins, Iran, media ecology, mit media lab, networked power, networked society, No Straight Lines, Participatory culture, participatory media, Sub-Saharan Africa, YouTube
People powered uprisings and participatory media
Why is it Zeynep Tufekci asks that when power does such terrible things to a people, a country directed from above that the collective find it so hard to challenge this authoritarian power. It is a story that is explored in No Straight Lines Continue reading
Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged al-jazeera, arab spring, Collective action, Communication, Egypt, Facebook, future democracy, Gafsa, Henry Jenkins, networked protest, No Straight Lines, participatory cultures, participatory media, protest, Social network, Tunisia, Zeynep Tufekci
Innovating in crisis management with p2p and technology
Climate scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have reported that extreme weather will become the new normal. Few countries are prepared for multiple disasters. Does the world need a new humanitarian international project that matches the $150 billion international space station in scope and ambition? A key goal would be to ensure that everyone has access to a mobile phone or data signal during a disaster. Continue reading
March 22, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged 2010 Haiti earthquake, Alan Moore, American Red Cross, Big data, disaster innovation, distributed intelligence, Haiti, Haiti earthquake, impact of mobility, Innovation, intergovernmental panel on climate change, Mobile phone, No Straight Lines, Non-governmental organization, Patrick Meier, planetary weather, Qatar foundation, smlxl, ushahidi
Achuar community speaks truth to power in the Amazon
Gregor MacLennan works for an Amazonwatch an organisation that campaigns for the rights and lives of indigenous tribes living in the Amazon rainforest in Peru.
MacLennan explains that huge tracts of the Amazon have been sold to international companies for mineral extraction. Those companies come and extract the minerals but they leave a lot behind: pollution on an unprecedented scale, deforestation, the undoable disruption of the communities that live there. Continue reading
February 21, 2013
Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Achuar people, Alan Moore, amazon, Amazon rainforest, Amazonwatch, chevron, exxonn, Indigenous People, Indigenous tribes, Lima, mineral extraction, mining companies, mobile communications, No Straight Lines, oil spills, Peru, power+information technology, talisman energy
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
The transformation of financial systems
As part of the work in No Straight Lines, and looking at our challenges from a systems perspective it is obvious that unless our financial systems evolve we are stuck in a bad place, as Hazel Henderson observes finance is a part of the global commons, to serve real economies not dominate them. Continue reading
February 13, 2013
Adaptiveness / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools
Tagged Alan Moore, Business, Emerging markets, ethical business, Financial institution, green economy, Hazel Henderson, micro finance, Mobile money, No Straight Lines, social capital markets, social venture capital, Venture capital
Banking on the sun, a community investing in sustainable energy
Banking on the Sun is perhaps one of the finest lines I have read recently, which I found tucked away in the Mercury News – which is not a planet. So ‘Oakland Solar financing startup Mosaic crowd sources installations’ is the headline – for $25 one can become part of a ‘community’ Continue reading
February 8, 2013
Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, community, design thinking, Energy, No Straight Lines, oakland, open innovation+open region+open commons+open data+open society+p2p society+open api's+, p2p society, solar energy, solar power+smart grids, sustainable futures
Competing to innovate in the open society
An aspect of open collaboration literacy which may seem counter intuitive is that of competition. Competitions can attract people passionate about solving real world problems; these need to be open access attracting a true divergence of knowledge, and have a fine pedigree. The Longitude Prize was an act of Parliament (the Longitude Act) of the United Kingdom passed in July 1714 during the reign of Queen Anne. It established the Board of Longitude and offered a monetary reward for anyone who could find a simple and practical method for the precise determination of a ship’s longitude. Continue reading
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Board of Longitude, company of the future, Competition, enterprise open innovation, firm of the future, Innovation, innovation performance, innovation platforms, Longitude Prize, NASA, No Straight Lines, Open Society, radical redesign business, Space, stsyems thinking, Technology, technology strategy board, TopCoder
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
The promise of an open innovation platform
The promise of an open innovation platform is that it has the ability to create value writes Jack Hughes of TopCoder. Indeed Chapter Seven of No Straight Lines, devotes itself to exploring the open society which offers better ways of sharing knowledge, power and wealth. In fact it is my belief that Openness as a principle and practice is resilience and that there is indeed a more sustainable approach to the varied and many challenges we face. Continue reading
February 3, 2013
Adaptiveness / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Business, business school, collaborative design, company as community, company of the future, Crowdsourcing, curatiba, design thinking, Elinor Ostrom, enterprise perfomance, firm of the future, Kenya, Kenyan, Knowledge management, No Straight Lines, open government, Open innovation, Open Source, participatory cultures, Patients Know Best, radical re-design of business, Straight Lines, Systems thinking, TopCoder, ushahidi+ngo+networked
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
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
A story of how a public health authority transformed through participatory leadership
Many organizations faced with the significant challenges of improving organizational capability, creating better services, and becoming more agile—often with less money—forget that the key to the best possible future lies in the minds of the many that use, create, and deliver these services everyday. If an organization can harness that deep knowledge, powerful change for the better can unfold naturally. Continue reading
September 11, 2012
Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Business, Design, healthcare, leadership, Management, NHS, nova scotia+participatory leadership+Tim Merry+art of hosting, Organization, Organizational Change, Organizational Development, participatory leadership
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
Tattoos: identity creation in a post industrial world
One of the aspects of the networked that I think is oft overlooked is not to do with technology but with people, something that I explore in some depth in No Straight Lines. How do we create identity, and how do we create meaning? For example, as Michele L. Crossley, explains,
When we ask ourselves, ‘what does this mean?’ We are asking ourselves (or others), how something is related or connected to something or someone else. It is the connections or relationships among events that constitute their meaning. Moreover, such meanings are not produced subjectively by isolated individuals; rather, they are formulated through cultural meaning systems such as language (and narratives) which reverberate with knowledge of connections and relationships across generations. Continue reading
August 19, 2012
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Art, Bodyart, identity, meaning+culture, pyschology, Russian Mafia, Tattoo
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
Incredible Edible: people power creating resilient communities
I saw Pam Warhust speak at Thinking Digital in Newcastle a few weeks ago. Inspirational was an understatement – her story of how a group of people created a movement to get their community to think about a more resilient, sustainable community is one we can and should all learn from. This video tells the peoples story. Continue reading
June 8, 2012
Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Barbara Ehrenreich, better society, britain innovation system+science+technology+investment+open access+support entrepreneurial companies+mobile finance+new approach to education+training+learning, Charles Taylor, citizenship+participation, civic entrepreneurship, collaborative economy+collaborative enterprise, cooperatives and civic community, corporate responsibility+environment, corporations+environmental responsibility, 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, culture and the environment, economic performance+happiness+wellbeing, economic vibrancy+britain+europe+uk, England, environmental activism+uk, environmental justice, erik eriksson, food systems, food+effects of global warming, Incredible Edible, local food economies, Pam, Pam Warhurst+incredible edible+defra, Raymond Williams, Todmorden, Vimeo, West Yorkshire
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. Halvorson+Judith A. Johansen+J. 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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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