Archives: System breakdown
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
Dickson Despommier innovating the vertical farm
This is how Dickson sees our future panning out. By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth’s population will reside in urban centers. Applying the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will increase by about 3 billion people during the interim. An estimated 109 hectares of new land (about 20% more land than is represented by the country of Brazil) will be needed to grow enough food to feed them, if traditional farming practices continue as they are practiced today. At present, throughout the world, over 80% of the land that is suitable for raising crops is in use (sources: FAO and NASA). Historically, some 15% of that has been laid waste by poor management practices. What can be done to avoid this impending disaster? Continue reading
November 12, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged 2007–2008 world food price crisis, Agriculture, arbor house, Black Sea Region, Dickson Despommier, European Union, farming to save the planet, farming tools of innovation, Food and Agriculture Organization, future growing, gotham green, innovation in urban farming, lufa farms, natural capitalism, nonlinear innovation, Palm oil, Price index, restoration of farmland, Rome, rregenerative design model, sustainable urban farming, the failure the traditional farming, the greening of economics, United States, vertical farming
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
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
The French Intifada and the crisis of modern identity
In No Straight Lines I explore the what is called the crisis of of the modern world. The crisis of identity. Who are we? Why do we exist? What makes meaning, identity, community and connection? This crisis impacts our communities our organisations (think The Office), our wider society and even nations. What have we become? I present a challenge I+We=Why? It touches every touch point in our lives and is having serious ramifications on how our societies are evolving. E.O Wilson wrote that we yearn to belong and to have a purpose bigger than ourselves. Without that purpose we lack meaning, and context, custom and tradition wane – yet we are meaning making creatures. Continue reading
March 6, 2014
Tagged Alan Moore, arab french identity, attachment theory+attention and loneliness, authoriarianism+religious fundamentalism, cognitive psychology, identity in modern france, integral psychology, Loneliness, made in france, Manuel Castells, Mohsin Hamid Ait-Ouyahia, muslim identity in the west, No Straight Lines, politics and religion, psychology of religion, religious fundamentalism and cultural identity, religious fundamentalism and social identity, seeking an authentic identity, the crisis of modern identity, the nature of human nature
The art of living together and the art of dying
James Mitchell used this phrase ‘the art of living together’, recently in Edinburgh. A phrase he articulated to mean what politics at its best and most basic should be about. Think of the component parts and what they mean: ‘art’ and ‘living together’: they denote craft, non-scientific discipline, emotional insight, and an awareness and understanding of differences and transcending them. Continue reading
February 12, 2014
Adaptiveness / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / System breakdown
Tagged future economy Scotland, future leadership, future society, George Harrison, Gerry Hassan, hacking the future, new political institutions, No Straight Lines, political innovation scotland, Politics, Poverty, restorative economy, Scotland, social innovation in scotland
Schaft: humanoid robotics and its implications
Robotics is on the cusp of reshaping our world – in every aspect of our lives, from the waiting rooms of our hospitals to our battlefields, disaster prone world and our everyday lives. For good and for bad. Continue reading
January 2, 2014
Ambiguity / Epic (designing for transformation) / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Boston Dynamics and google, cambridge university robotics, disaster relief robotics, ethical dimensions of technology, future japanese robotics, google robots replace humans, humanoid robotics, japanese robotics, law+technology, nonlinear innovation, robotic warfare, robotics and warfare, robotics implications for healthcare, technology and culture, technology and human behaviour, technology society and historical change
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
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
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
Alice in wonga land, how payday loans make a profit
Payday loan company WONGA reported £1m profit per week for 2012. Charging 5500% APR on each of its 1m loans last year it’s now the biggest payday lender in the UK. It’s not alone with many other payday firms reporting increases in turnover and profits over the last 3 years. Errol Damelin the CEO of WONGA states that he hardly thinks a £200 loans get people into trouble. He’s right, cry the campaigners, it’s the thousands of per cent interest you charge on it, so lets cap it. Actually he’s right and the campaigners are wrong, on both counts. Continue reading
September 21, 2013
Tagged alice in wongaland, banking, business ethics, Certified Public Accountant, christian law on lending, Civil society, CPA, credit uniions, Errol Damelin, Ethics, fair finance, getting rid of payday loan debt, islamic law on lending, Maria Nowak, moral capitalism, No Straight Lines, open democracy+civil society+ethics, pay day loan victims, Payday loan, payday loans online, Payment, social innovation in finance, the idea of social justice, the joyless economy, things you should know before you take a payday loan, why do we need pay day loans?, Wonga
If data is the new oil where are its wells?
John Naughton in his recent column for The Observer, wrote that in 2006 or thereabouts, a phrase that data was new the oil came into public consciousness. At the time I was sitting on the board of a company specialising in large scale social data analytics (in those days mobile networks were large scale social networks), And I liked to use the term raw data has no value but refined data is the black gold of the 21st Century. Continue reading
September 5, 2013
Openness / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Bradley Manning, cloud providers working with big data, cyber security, data, data analytics, data fear, data policy+future data policy+future IT policy, data the individual and the state, data+society, edward snowden, future social media, IBM, john naughton, Manuel Castells, meaning and data, monitory democracy, national security agency, No Straight Lines, open democracy+civil society+ethics, open health+open data+open data records, Slavoj Žižek, the open society, United States, wikileaks
Smart meters, data, cyber security
John Naughton raises an interesting point about the proposed installation of data monitoring smart meters in 26 millions homes and its security implications in his Observer column. Continue reading
August 18, 2013
Ambiguity / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Big data, control data institute, cyber security, cyber war, dark data, data fear, data policy+future data policy+future IT policy, data the individual and the state, data+democracy, data+society, digital warfare, g4s, Gas meter, homeland security, john naughton, Kim Jong-un, meta data, Middle East, mobile data security, No Straight Lines, Public utility, Ross J. Anderson, Russia, Smart meter, smart metering, Wireless Data
Austerity: the history of a dangerous idea
Mark Blythe gives us a lesson in austerity economics Continue reading
August 4, 2013
Tagged austerity, banking crisis, citi bank, european central bank, european central bank+euro crisis, google tax, hyper inflation, ireland sovereign debt, irs services, monetarism+compared to Keynesianism+constant-money-growth rule+evidence against+federal reserve policies+growth of money stock+influence+in japan+monetary neutrality and nonneutrality+quantity theory , monetary policy, monetary unions+benefits and costs, money laundering, sovereign debt, systemic risk, too big to fail, toxic debt+banking crisis, warwick comission
Edward Snowden and the battle for internet freedom
Who would have thought even in 2005, that consumer politics and societal politics would revolve around data, who has it, who owns it and how it is used, combined with the legal frameworks that protect us as citizens. our destiny with data is complex. There are legitimate concerns about who actually owns this information, and when our identities can be pieced together via data flows, privacy becomes a key battleground. And there will be a pressing and increasing need to respect the sovereignty of the individual whether that be in a commercial or civil context. Continue reading
July 29, 2013
Tagged Alan Moore, Apple, booz hamilton allen, center for digital democracy, cloud security, cyber-surveillance system, data, data security, Democracy, digital democracy, edward snowden, Facebook, gchq, Google, national security agency, No Straight Lines, smlxl
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
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
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
Austerity Britain, so what comes next?
Sir Merrick Cockell, chairman of the Local Government Association, said local authorities will have lost a third of their budget by 2015. And this is going to have serious implications for us all. so what does next look? Continue reading
April 12, 2013
Ambiguity / Epic (designing for transformation) / System breakdown
Tagged Andrew Haldane, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire County Council, council tax bill, design challenge, England, george osborne, Ian duncan smith, Local Government Association, London, Merrick Cockell, No Straight Lines, non linear, Welsh government
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
Nothing is sacred + the meaningless cosmos = the hungry spirit
In No Straight Lines, Charles Handy takes us on a journey of what he calls The Hungry Spirit. Handy introduces us to the African idea of the lesser and greater hunger. The lesser hunger is for the things that sustain life; the goods and the services, and the money to pay for them, which we all need. The greater hunger is for an answer to the question ‘why?’, for some understanding of what that life is for. Richard Tarnas argues You could say that a cosmology shapes everything that happens in a civilisation. You know, when Dante created in ‘The Divine Comedy’ the whole cosmology that combined the ancient Greek and the Christian universe into one, and that really reflected the whole civilisation’s sense of what it was about. The cathedrals aspiring to the heavens that were moved by the angels and God was looking over all and hell was down below. And we were poised between good and evil, between God and Satan. And you have native American cosmologies that are very different from the Hindu cosmology, etcetera.
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April 3, 2013
Ambiguity / Openness / System breakdown
Tagged Alan Moore, Anomalies and Alternative Science, C. Wright Mills, Charles Handy, consumer psychology, Cosmology, future of the consumer, hindu cosmology, J. G. Ballard, Joseph Stiglitz, Joyless Economy, Lizabeth Cohen, No Straight Lines, the divine comedy, Tibor Scitovsky, United States
Upgrading civic infrastructure for a non-linear world
Michael Sandel argues there’s a role for governments, for companies, for civil society, for religious institutions, for educational institutions, for the media. He says all of these institutions can contribute toward forming values and strengthening civic virtue. But so many of these institutions, are in disarray or discredited, that they are not all in very strong health. And that’s part of our challenge. Continue reading
Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / System breakdown
Tagged Alan Moore, Cairo, Civic virtue, Civil society, design challenge, design literacy, ego to eco, enterprising futures, firms of the future, future commerce, future education, future government, future healthcare, future literacy, future religion, Government, leadership, legal systems, Michael Sandel, No Straight Lines, smart cities, Social justice, social justice achieved through innovation, Sustainability
Arnold Heertje humanizing the economy
Arnold Heertje is an economist, author and a provocative voice in the Dutch public debate. His analyses of the current situation regarding the economic crisis and the symptom it is according to him of a larger social paradigmatic shift. Heertje argues that we have lived in a quantitative and dehumanizing economic paradigm which has alienated human beings from their labour and social being. This crisis is the implosion of that model and should be used to initiate the shift towards the new paradigm, which has in his mind everything to do with sustainability and a return to human proportions. Continue reading
Adaptiveness / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Arnold Heertje, Barack Obama, Big data, Crowd funding, designing for the human-os, Economic model, enterprising futures, future healthcare, human os, human proprtions, moral economy, New Economic Model, No Straight Lines, Obama, Paradigm, participatory cultures, participatory tools, Rahm Emanuel, schumacher college, smart cities, the ethical company, the future of education
Elisabet Sahtouris on the future of humanity and ecology
How and why do we as species connect and fit into the world? How and why are we all interconnected, why is it that cooperation is better than conflict? And why does that connect with a more sustainable world? Elisabet Sahtouris explains why… Continue reading
April 2, 2013
Epic (designing for transformation) / System breakdown
Tagged Alan Moore, biology, Earth, Ecology of Commerce, Elisabet Sahtouris, enterprising futures, Gaia, Human, Industrial Revolution, No Straight Lines, Organism, Symbiosis
Crispin Tickells on climate change
We are without a doubt moving into a non-linear world, a world that presents us with great challenges and of course great opportunities. Sir Crispin Tickells an early pioneer in the UK of foresight and change shares his views and thoughts on the need to think differently about the world we live in. How do we deal with climate change – he says we face a design challenge. Continue reading
Adaptiveness / Epic (designing for transformation) / System breakdown
Tagged Activism, Alan Moore, Asymmetric warfare, china+grain to green program, climate challenge, Creativity, economic challenge, forests+carbon dioxide+carbon trust+fossil fuels+free market economy+fertility+robert frosch+craig fuller+global markets+global warming+pollution permits+green tax+restorative economy, future, green economics, No Straight Lines, non linear, Nonlinear system, North Korea, Social Sciences, South Korea
Of corporations serving the collective good
Modern law facilitates the creation and operation of corporations because – and only to the extent that – they serve our collective as well as our individual needs and aspirations. The privileges such entities enjoy should be framed with the primary objective of helping them to meet these needs. Continue reading
March 30, 2013
Tagged a new moral world: the lost socialism, Alan Moore, banking+ethics, business fundamentalism, Capitalism, Changez, citicorp, corruption, ethics in business, firms of the future, John Kay, lehman brothers, Mohsin Hamid, moral economy, Muslim, No Straight Lines, Reluctant Fundamentalist, stories of the moral imperative, The Twilight of Sovereignty, Tony Judt, Underwood Samson, United States
The short term myopia of equity markets
In the Kay report on equity markets he makes recommendations that there should be a much needed shift in the culture of the stock market. It includes restoring relationships built on long term trust and confidence, and realigning incentives across the investment eco-system. Continue reading
Adaptiveness / Epic (designing for transformation) / System breakdown
Tagged Alan Moore, Asset management, british business, Business, global markets, goldman Sachs, investing 101, Investment, Investor, John Kay, long term capital management, Mergers and acquisitions, No Straight Lines, smlxl, trust+business, uk business
Less seed, water, and chemicals equals more food
Kumar, a young farmer in Nalanda district of India’s poorest state Bihar, had – using only farmyard manure and without any herbicides – grown an astonishing 22.4 tonnes of rice on one hectare of land Continue reading
March 9, 2013
Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / System breakdown
Tagged Agriculture, Alan Moore, Anil Verma, Bihar, consciouslifenews, crop yields, diary farming, India, Innovation, Nalanda, Nalanda district, new green grassroots revolution, Nitish Kumar, No Straight Lines, non-linear economy, norman uphoff, Organic farming, Ravindra Kumar, Rice, schumacher college, seed patents, sri, sustainable enterprise, yeo valley
Lessig on Aaron's Law, the law and justice in a non-linear world
Lawrence Lessig, inaugral lecture gives his perspectives on the Aaron Swartz, and where we go from here. Continue reading
February 24, 2013
Education / Openness / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, cory doctorow+open book, Creative Commons, digital free speech, future copyright law, future education, Lawrence Lessig, No Straight Lines, open democracy, open innovation+open region+open commons+open data+open society+p2p society+open api's+, open science, open society institute, open source+open access, p2p, sharing economy, Sharing+Openness+Decentralization+Free access to computers+World Improvement, the open society
The Gestalt Switch to the Human-OS
In The Life and Death of Democracy, John Keane points out that when democracy takes hold of people’s lives, it gives them a glimpse of the contingency of things. They are, he says: ‘injected with the feeling that the world can be other than it is – that situations can be countered, outcomes altered, people’s lives changed through individual and collective action.’ Do people feel this today? Democracy, says Keane, ‘thrives on humility and a shared sense of equality among citizens needs to be visceral’. Continue reading
February 17, 2013
Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Amartya Sen, arab spring, Benjamin Barber, consumer politics, consumer society, Democracy, democracy 2.0, George W. Bush, J. G. Ballard, life and death of democracy, Lizabeth Cohen, No Straight Lines, one nation, open democracy, open democracy+civil society+ethics, political economy, pussy riot, SOCAP, social capital, the joyless economy+tibor scitovsky, Tibor Scitovsky, twitter+democracy, twitter+protest, United States, ushahidi
Necessity hath no law
When people feel powerless, their style of reaction takes us back to a different age and a different time. Visceral protest. These reactions are representative of, I would argue, a desire for a moral economy, something that Amartya Sen describes in his work The Idea of Justice. Or social justice, as Sen asks, is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? Which also connects to Manual Castells work on Communication Power, Continue reading
February 7, 2013
Epic (designing for transformation) / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged 911, Alan Moore, Amartya Sen, anti-globalization, Democracy, greece, Idea of Justice, life and death of democracy, Michel Bauwens, New York City, No Straight Lines, occupy, Paul Mason, protest, Puerta del Sol, Social justice, spain, United States
Current business entombed by a linear world?
It has been an interesting start to the year, and a number of conversations I have had have made me ponder on this question: are current business entombed by current business systems, the quarterly cycle and analysts demanding ever more? Continue reading
February 5, 2013
Tagged Alan Moore, Business, Diane Coyle, Economics, Entombed, IBM, No Straight Lines, Organization, pensions+funding models, Straight Lines
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
Juvenile In Justice
“Bring me more children” [1] Juvenile courts in the U.S. annually process an estimated 1.7 million cases of youth charged with a delinquency offense – approximately 4,600 delinquency cases a day. [2] Two-thirds of males and three-quarters of females in … Continue reading
October 11, 2012
Tagged Alan Moore, chris grayling, crime and punishment, ira glass, jeremy Wright, juuvie, juvenile prison, law and order, Nigel Newcomen, No Straight Lines, Prison, Richard Ross, society, solitary confinement, system breakdown
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
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
Who are the real indoor pirates? Barclays Bank
In the road trip that is No Straight Lines, chapter 1 deals with the fallout for society when rampant commercialism takes control over every aspect of our lives. It explores what happens when corporations do not work for the collective good but only for them selves – when in fact the needs of “I” rules over the needs of “We”. Continue reading
June 29, 2012
Tagged affective economics+marketing+consumption culture, after the great complacence, alan moore+no straight lines, andrew tyrie+chairman of the treasury select committee, Bank, bank compliance+libor, bank runs+liquidity+euro crisis, banking scandal, banking+piracy, banking+regional development, banking+transparency, banks and regulation, banks+formulaic risk modeling, banks+microcredit, Barclays, barclays bank defrauding shareholder, barclays bank defrauding uk taxpayers, barclays bank founded by quakers, barclays bank+bob diamond, barclays bank+financial advantage by deception, barclays tax abuse, barclays' interest rate-rigging, barclays+artificial transactions, barclays+cynicism and greed, barclays+double-dip” tax credits, barclays+lowballing lending rates, barclays+non-prosecution agreement, barclays+tax havens in the isle of man, bob diamond resigns, british bankers association, business ethics, Canary Wharf
Farming for our future
Raising Resistance explores Latin American farmers’ struggle against the expanding production of genetically modified soy in South America. Biotechnology, mechanisation, and herbicides have radically changed the lives of small farmers in Latin America. For farmers in Paraguay this means displacement from their land, loss of basic food supplies Continue reading
May 13, 2012
Epic (designing for transformation) / System breakdown
Tagged Agriculture, alan moore+no straight lines, future agriculture, future farming, Genetically modified food, Incredible Edible, Latin America, Organic farming, Paraguay, South America, Sustainability, yeo valley farms
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
What sustains an Open Society?
The necessary conditions of a truly democratic or civil society – what Popper (Karl) dubbed the “Open Society” – is a sustained and collective awareness of the ways that things are ever changing.
My question is, have we had such a sustained and collective awareness? Or the ability to truly engage if we are aware? However, John Keane in his work The Life and Death of Democracy wonders if we are witnessing a Gestalt switch’ which makes us think differently about how we perceive power and who wields it’. Is this something that is now moving into the public realm as a truly viable debate? Continue reading
May 8, 2012
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Chipping Norton, Judt, Leveson Inquiry, Open Data, Open Society, Open Society Foundation, Tony Judt, United States
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
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Privatised prisons are run for profit where does the raw material come from?
A recent article in Wired Magazine about Richard Ross’s extraordinary project Juvenile In Justice is worthy of mention and illumination. If you want to know why our industrial society is no longer relevant for what we as people want and what our society needs then you need to read this book. Continue reading
April 13, 2012
Tagged abu ghraib+prisoner abuse+media+communication+journalism, alan moore+no straight lines, authority+architecture+power+identity+prison+juvvie+united states, bart lubow, cooke county detention center, Crime, Crime and Justice, debtors prison, Department of Juvenile Justice, designing for a complex world, designing prison cells, Director, Human operating system+humanOS, ira glass, juvenile injustice, Juvenile Justice Strategy Group, juvenile prison+future of society+open society+drugs+guns+child prison+crime and punishment, maryvale, nils christie+criminologist+the prison industry, open democracy+civil society+ethics, Prison, prison and power, prison+justice, prisonphotography, propublica+prisons, Richard Ross, sexual abuse of young female prisoners, solitary confinement, system breakdown+industry+healthcare+education+media, United States, unjust rewards
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
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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Book Review of No Straight Lines
What Alan Moore does really effectively is create a bridge from this thinking to the observations and thoughts of people like Seth Godin, Stephen Pressfield, Derek Sivers and John Hagel to paint a picture of how to add the “What” and “How” to the very large “Why” he describes. The book is well written, thoroughly researched and is a great base refence source for those of us interested in and committed to helping enable the change he foresees Continue reading
February 23, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
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Reschooling our selves for a non-linear world
A short video introducing some of the core themes of the book No Straight Lines: making sense of our non-linear worldf Continue reading
February 15, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
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The No Straight Lines challenge: be realistic imagine the impossible
What do these have in common?
A car company built around a global community as an organisation, enabled by combining flex manufacturing techniques, open source platforms, open legal frameworks and social communication technologies premised upon cooperation, fuelled by the desire to be a great company and green; that can build cars 5 times faster at 100 times less the capital costs. A crisis management platform and organisation born out of the Kenyan post-election crisis of 2008 that can record critical information of events unfolding on the ground via a blend of location-based data, eyewitness accounts and mobile telephony, from often hard to reach places which visualises those unfolding events so that others can act and direct action at internet speeds. And now utilised for free in many parts of the world. Or, the largest organic diary farm in Britain, that has evolved a methodology that allows it to remain autonomous, profitable and sustainable in a market that is acutely volatile, because large-scale agricultural farming is mostly run on an oil-based economy, plus diary farmers are at the calculating mercy of the marketing needs and whimsies of large chain supermarkets. Continue reading
January 24, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Britain+general strike+education+pensions+unfair, business as a service+business as a platform, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, collaborative economy, designing for a complex world, designing for service+designing with data, Education, Ethics, Executive pay, future of business+future of retail, future of health+future of nhs, Health literacy, Lego, nhs+reform+andrew lansley, No Straight Lines, open democracy+civil society+ethics, open health+open data+open data records, Vince Cable, world bank+imf+demos+new economics+complexity
The last of the Kodak moments
When faced with an ambiguous world some move into that world, and embrace it to understand it, listen deeply and think very hard about transformation – how to transform, how to design for transformation. This is a very hard thing to do and few do it well. I am sure we are all a little sad of the passing of Kodak. Continue reading
January 20, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Ambiguity, Arthur C. Clarke, Carlota Perez, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, designing for service+designing with data, Eastman Kodak, FujiFilm, Kodak, Lego, n+open source+ontario+nesta+technology strategy board+curatiba+mobile health+mhealth+ecommerce+etsy.com+ebay+apple+agriculture+android+amazon+achuar+arab spring+ansari+bric+argentia+china+india+julian, Nokia, nokia+crisis, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling, regional development+job creation+inward investment+euro crisis+micropayments+mobile education+wiki classrooms+worldreader.org, systems thinking+systems design+simplexity
Thanks to Jo Pine for the thumbs up on No Straight Lines
‘Anyone worried about where business is going in today’s chaotic world – and everyone concerned with where it should be going – must read No Straight Lines Continue reading
January 3, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, business as a service+business as a platform, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, designing for service+designing with data, future of business+future of retail, future of health+future of nhs, henry jenkins+howard rheingold+barbara ehrenreich+amartya sen+eric beinhocker+yochai benkler+robert axelrod+robert putman+manuel castells+jan van dijk+john kay+will hutton+jerrold seigel+jane jacobs+e, New Humanist, open democracy+civil society+ethics, politics+participatory cultures+mobile+communication+gestalt switch, systems thinking+systems design+simplexity, tea party+occupy wall street+occupy movement+Sherrod Brown+Ben S. Bernanke+Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis+Kenneth D. Lewis+bank of america+Jamie Dimon+JPMorgan Chase+TAF borrowings+Henry M. Pauls, The Experience Economy, world bank+imf+demos+new economics+complexity
The NEXT Silicon Valley is not a place it's a platform
It wont be the banks, and it wont be the VC’s – so WHAT’s NEXT for the funding of innovative and entrepreneurial companies – that small spark which fires nascent, embryonic companies into life? How do we fast track those companies to maturity? As right now faced with the increasing speed it seems of the decay of an old industrial system all countries need more startups. Continue reading
December 17, 2011
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Britain+general strike+education+pensions+unfair, business as a service+business as a platform, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, Entrepreneur, future of business+future of retail, Grow VC International Limited, GrowVC, henry jenkins+howard rheingold+barbara ehrenreich+amartya sen+eric beinhocker+yochai benkler+robert axelrod+robert putman+manuel castells+jan van dijk+john kay+will hutton+jerrold seigel+jane jacobs+e, Human operating system+humanOS, innovation workshops, Lego, open democracy+civil society+ethics, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling, Silicon Valley, social+market+foundation+john kay+ed milliband+capitalism+markets+executive pay+moral society+moral business+Jesse Norman+matthew hancock+, Startup company, systems thinking+systems design+simplexity, the future of collaborative enterprise+future leadership+the future of work+new business models, what's next in funding+what's next in venture capital
Shopping sets you free?
I think we can shop, I think its OK to do that, but we as a population have been weaned off the idea of accountability, responsibility, public engagement, and political participation. That said I do think that the rise of the networked society, that is engaged and connected demonstrates that over the next 20 years we will see a real evolution of our current society, which will also change our values, and our sense of ourselves in the world. No Straight Lines examines WHAT that looks like and HOW we achieve it. Continue reading
December 16, 2011
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, anti-globalisation movement+occupy movement, Benjamin Barber, Britain+general strike+education+pensions+unfair, Consumerism, Costa Coffee, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, future of business+future of retail, 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, Neal Lawson, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling, Robert Reich, social+market+foundation+john kay+ed milliband+capitalism+markets+executive pay+moral society+moral business+Jesse Norman+matthew hancock+, tea party+occupy wall street+occupy movement+Sherrod Brown+Ben S. Bernanke+Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis+Kenneth D. Lewis+bank of america+Jamie Dimon+JPMorgan Chase+TAF borrowings+Henry M. Pauls, Thomas Frank, Zygmunt Bauman
Science: ideology and politics
Scientific discovery by its very nature pushes new boundaries. In so doing, it asks questions of ourselves, our humanity, our ethical perspectives. It cantilevers multiple reactions and forces us into ambiguous places. But we should not take fundamentalist views and perspectives because without scientific discovery we diminish ourselves Continue reading
Ambiguity / Education / Openness / System breakdown
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, designing for a complex world, Human operating system+humanOS, life sciences strategy+department of business+patient concern, politics+participatory cultures+mobile+communication+gestalt switch, Republican War on Science, Rush Limbaugh, Science and technology in the United States, Science Debate 2008, science+theology, Shawn Lawrence Otto, systems thinking+systems design+simplexity, trilemma
Welcome to machine - human nature is not like a machine
What does the future of work look like, and why is that so deeply connected to well-being, and also HOW we create better organisational working models that better suit humanity? Continue reading
Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, business as a service+business as a platform, Capitalism, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, craftsmanship, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, designing for service+designing with data, designing the smart organisation, Douglas Rushkoff, future of business+future of retail, Human operating system+humanOS, Industrialisation, nonlinear innovation, Richard Sennett, Russ Ackoff, Systems thinking, the future of collaborative enterprise+future leadership+the future of work+new business models, the toyota way
Modern life is rubbish
And whether we call it Extreme Capitalism, or, Supercapitalism, in Sennett’s view, the “unfettered capitalism” that describes our recent history in labour markets, work schedules, institutions, and technology – renders “character” impossible. Contemporary capitalism demolishes the social and cultural foundations of “character,” and upholds instead the punishing ideal of incessant change. Continue reading
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Bastille Day, Britain+general strike+education+pensions+unfair, BUPA, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, daniel kehlmann, designing for a complex world, Employment, France Télécom, future of work+mental health+, 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, jonathan franzen, open democracy+civil society+ethics, paul reitter, reductive effects modern media, social+market+foundation+john kay+ed milliband+capitalism+markets+executive pay+moral society+moral business+Jesse Norman+matthew hancock+, tea party+occupy wall street+occupy movement+Sherrod Brown+Ben S. Bernanke+Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis+Kenneth D. Lewis+bank of america+Jamie Dimon+JPMorgan Chase+TAF borrowings+Henry M. Pauls, the future of collaborative enterprise+future leadership+the future of work+new business models, the kraus project
The £2 Chicken: the adaptive edge of food production and consumption
On BBC Radio 4 today the food programme explored how we are at the adaptive edge of how we farm and retail food. With growing economies like China we are beginning to be squeezed by the needs and demands of other countries. In the BBC 4 programme Dan Saladino explores how higher food prices are changing what we buy and how we eat. From increases in food related crime to shortages of ingredients, he asks, what else is in store? Continue reading
December 11, 2011
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, crop rotation+green manure+compost+biological pest contro+genetically modified organisms+plant growth regulators+food additives+Organic Agriculture Movements+Food quality and safety+Climate change+Far, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, DO Lectures, Food, Food & Drug Administration, food+supermarkets+agriculture+yeo valley+organic+defra+soil association+do lectures+dan saladino+supermarkets+volatility+complexity, henry jenkins+howard rheingold+barbara ehrenreich+amartya sen+eric beinhocker+yochai benkler+robert axelrod+robert putman+manuel castells+jan van dijk+john kay+will hutton+jerrold seigel+jane jacobs+e, Human operating system+humanOS, Joel Salatin, Polyface Farm
Britain microfinance and designing for the human(OS)
Our current banking systems locks people into poverty, 6 million people in the UK do not have access to a bank account. But there is another way. This is that story. In NSL we write about another extraordinary person, Faisal Rahman, who belongs to the “don’t just stand there Do something brigade”, so he set up Fair Finance for Business. A bank for the very poor. Faisal says we need to design money systems around people, all people. Not around the needs of a few Continue reading
December 9, 2011
Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / System breakdown
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Business, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, Economic development, Environment Trust, Human operating system+humanOS, Microfinance, moral capitalism+fair finance for business+innovation+banking+poverty+dalston+loan sharking+maria nowak+ADIE, open democracy+civil society+ethics, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling, social+market+foundation+john kay+ed milliband+capitalism+markets+executive pay+moral society+moral business+Jesse Norman+matthew hancock+, systems thinking+systems design+simplexity, world bank+imf+demos+new economics+complexity
A call for a moral capitalism
the morality of markets is fast becoming the next battleground of politics. Ed Milliband has also demanded such. In part because we have reached the edge of the adaptive range of our industrial society, the cognitive limit of organisations which represent in fact all the institutions of society. But how do we see and connect to our best possible future? Continue reading
December 8, 2011
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Britain+general strike+education+pensions+unfair, business as a service+business as a platform, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, Ethics, Executive pay, Human operating system+humanOS, insidejob+bob diamond+fred goodwin, John Kay, 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, social market foundation, 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, Vince Cable
What's next is defined by what we want
A Gestalt Switch has been turned on which is inherently political nature. Empowered by communication technologies, but fuelled by despair and moral outrage we are demanding a different type of world. Why is that important for all businesses and organisations to understand? Continue reading
November 30, 2011
Tagged arab spring, Britain+general strike+education+pensions+unfair, Federal Reserve System, Freedom of Information Act, open democracy+civil society+ethics, politics+participatory cultures+mobile+communication+gestalt switch, tea party+occupy wall street+occupy movement+Sherrod Brown+Ben S. Bernanke+Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis+Kenneth D. Lewis+bank of america+Jamie Dimon+JPMorgan Chase+TAF borrowings+Henry M. Pauls, zuccotti park+pepper spray