Dec 30, 2023 • 3 min
Human beings have an astounding ability to see patterns and apply them in new contexts…but how often do we see patterns that don’t truly exist, and what happens when those patterns are misapplied? In a complex domain it’s only in retrospect that we can understand how outcomes emerged, and we don’t get much more complex than human systems.
Dec 30, 2023 • 2 min
Blog post: https://lizkeogh.com/2012/09/21/the-deliberate-discovery-workshop/
Dec 30, 2023 • 5 min
For millenia, human beings have survived by learning, then applying our learning to different contexts. We’re so good at it that we’re driven to find those patterns, even when they don’t exist. Our desire for the predictable suffuses everything we do; our beliefs, our behaviour and even our identity. From cognitive bias to the metaphors that underlie our language, we create constructs of words and imagination that keep us from innovating… and yet, they’re the same constructs that help us move forward in uncertainty. Without them, we’d be unable to make decisions at all! In this talk we look at how our language and perceptions can hold us back, and how changing the things we say and the way we look at the world might help us become more resilient, happy and innovative.
Dec 29, 2023 • 3 min
If you want to go in one direction, the best route may involve going in the other. Goals are more likely to be achieved when pursued indirectly.
Dec 29, 2023 • 1 min
Complex adaptive systems: no linear cause, but instead we have dispositional state, a set of possibilities and plausibilities, in which future state cannot be predicted.
Dec 29, 2023 • 0 min
the old linear models of thinking are no longer sustainable
Dec 29, 2023 • 5 min
Complexity framework: a sense-making framework, patterns emerge from the data
Feb 10, 2022 • 17 min
One of the issues with the maturity models we often use to assess teams is they are context free. They don’t take the environment into account, missing the challenges and the specific needs we have in our context. We will explore an alternative: Maturity Mapping. How can Wardley Mapping, Social Practice Theory and Cynefin be applied together to develop situational awareness and build a shared understanding of the practices you use and the unique challenges you face.