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This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. You might have heard or read about concepts like Systems Thinking and Design Thinking (both with and without capital letters) and asked yourself: what do they mean? We see both of these are frameworks for thinking about problems. It’s somewhat confusing, but both […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. The Cynefin Framework is among the most widely used frameworks for understanding how systems are organized. It might be the most practical means of bringing systems thinking to life. A system, after all, is simply an organization of things within some constraint or […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. You might have noticed that the world seems to be awash in canvases these days. The canvas model owes much of its popularity to the work of Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur and their Business Model Canvas. A canvas is a form of […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. You might have noticed that the world seems to be awash in canvases these days. The canvas model owes much of its popularity to the work of Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur and their Business Model Canvas. A canvas is a form of […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. Humans are strongly motivated by two forces: love and money*. When pursuing change and seeking to better things we often look at ways to gain more money as the solution, but what about love? What if we fell in love with our challenge? […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. Attractor mapping is a method we’ve written about before. It’s a visual means of tracking where we pay attention and where energy is created, sustained and organized. Energy is represented through attention, action, activity, and interactions. Energy is dissipative and it’s dynamic. This […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. Whether it is strategy or wellbeing programming, we all rely on energy to make them work. There is a tendency in organizational behaviour consulting to focus on the cognitive qualities of decisions, change-making, and action. These qualities are things like our thoughts, ideas, […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. Change-making is not a singular thing, rather it is viewed more as an index. That means that the more of these different factors that are present, the greater the likelihood of change. We recently concluded the first season of Censemaking: The Innovation Podcast […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. If you’re looking to enhance the wellbeing of your organization you first need to have trust. Trust is the anchor of any healthy relationship and wellbeing is all about creating connections to people and self. How do we create wellbeing in our organizations? […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at cense.ca. Among the greatest challenges of doing research and evaluation is ensuring you get participation from enough (and the right) people. Surveys are everywhere. It feels like everyone wants our feedback on just about everything. Yet, the more surveys out there the more we […]