This post touches on social media engagement but it’s more generally a demonstration of the process of conceptualization itself. The discipline of imagining and developing these kinds of concepts is the deliverable I’ve been developing for the past few years and converting into the Open Conceptual enterprise model. Social media just happens to be one of the [...]
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design thinking,
engagement,
social media,
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Companies pay amazing amounts of money to get answers from consultants with overdeveloped confidence in their own intuition. Managers rely on focus groups—a dozen people riffing on something they know little about—to set strategies. And yet, companies won’t experiment to find evidence of the right way forward. Quote from Dan Ariely’s column in the Harvard Business Review, [...]
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design thinking,
experiments,
future,
management,
mindsets,
organizations,
pragmatism
» … besides news about Haiti, Google, #teamconan (awesome!), prorogation… » How Fiction Works, James Wood — not so much a how-to as a brilliantly curated conversation across time between some of the greatest authors about subtleties I’d never noticed, e.g. how characters are efficiently “got in,” etc. » The Design of Business, Roger Martin … who has [...]
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nietzsche,
roger martin,
vampire weekend
The natural inclination right now for geeks of a certain type is to start dreaming up new standards bodies, or how they can participate in the Open Web Foundation to make a Super Awesome Twitter API Evolution Committee. Here’s my recommendation: Don’t. Don’t do any of that shit, and don’t run off to make membership [...]
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open innovation,
organizations,
planning,
rapid prototyping,
think21st,
twitter,
twitter api
Some readers may have noticed I’ve been getting little deeper and more technical lately. I’m trying to unburden myself of all of the theoretical equipment I’ve been using for the past few years — trying to make it explicit, get it out into the open, into the light of day. I should stress it’s just [...]
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thinking alive
I’ve sort of been on vacation so I’m a little late with this. Here’s Paul Romer making his case for charter cities: The TED Blog (via Design Thinking) conveys the gist better than I possibly could. It’s about making ways to change the rules: China, he says, demonstrates both the strengths and weaknesses of working with rules. [...]
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rules
by OpenConceptual on 07-19-2009
in concepts
[Update: within minutes I decided to change the title to "Designing Ideas for Democracy" -- replacing "methodologies" with "ideas" -- which occurred to me after I thought about search results, then realized "ideas" is more appropriate anyways.] This will be the provisional mission for Open/Conceptual. As usual, “designing methodologies ideas for democracy” is something that [...]
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ideation,
meta-methodology,
metaphors,
methodologies,
philosophy
by OpenConceptual on 07-12-2009
in mission
Just sort of a brainstorm here, following up on some of my relatively more youthful attempts to outline what this is all about: Draft Enterprise Model The Practice of Theory The other day I jotted down a few points — trying to distill the underlying mission of this amorphous enterprise. It has a few different [...]
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change,
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decision-making,
decisions,
design thinking,
digitization,
government,
information,
objectivity,
open,
open government,
open source,
openness,
org theory,
organizations,
participation,
politics,
pragmatism,
social web,
society,
transparency,
volunteering,
web
This occurred to me last night when I was looking at some of the new Friend Connect gadgets. I wanted to try them but they don’t go along with what I do at brianfrank.ca very well. The ldnbeta.ca site evolved from that. I started thinking we need someplace to just try stuff. If it works, [...]
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rapid prototyping,
wordpress mu,
wpmu
Tim Brown of IDEO shares my curiosity: I am very interested in what new behaviors might emerge this time around and ultimately what innovations they may inspire. Will it be something to do with people changing their attitude toward saving versus spending? Will the growing uncertainty of the world encourage us to look for lives that [...]
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future,
innovation,
mindsets,
success
