Adam Zeiner
@dezein
a persistently curious generalist (parading as a strategic designer, facilitator, and organizer) attempting to wrangle complexity
Adam Zeiner
dezein.info
...we’ve been trained to think of organizations as homogenous and mechanistic, with a clear set of rules, a command-and-control structure, and the ability to leverage hierarchy to get things done quickly by issuing top-down directives to reallocate resources to meet objectives.
Aric Wood • The Organization as a Machine: An Outdated Concept - XPLANE | Organizational Change Management Consulting
I was personally struck by the uniformity of this thinking across time and discipline – in general, there are six different levels of escalating complexity, each interdependent, each with an important role.Important to note here that in my table, "Leverage" is not the same thing as "Time to complete something."
Clay Parker Jones • Pace Layers for Organization
NOBL Collective - Change and Transformation Consulting Firm
nobl.io
1. Alignment & common language
Board of Innovation • Healthcare ecosystem mapping: A first step to shape your market
So, there are two kinds of competences that make up what design is: the theoretical and the practical. And we can use this as a mental model for how we think and talk about design – as a kind of philosophy for what design is, what it means to be a designer and to do design.
Mehmet Aydın Baytaş • Strategy and Tactics in Design
the first paper is out from our Leverage Points project [...] and lays out a conceptual framework and research agenda, all around the notion of “deep leverage points”
Ideas for Sustainability • Now published: Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation
The first step is to determine the user experience outcomes the team is shooting for; answers the question If we deliver a great design, how does it improve someone’s life?
The UX outcome is the end state we’re trying to achieve. Once we know our UX outcome, we can create key metrics detailing our journey getting there.
Jared Spool • Your Necessary First Step to Creating Powerful UX Metrics
We started thinking about different kinds of subject and object engagements that involved maybe multiple subjects, multiple objects, unintended engagements, or engagements that happen without either the user or the artifact having awareness of that engagement. What are the different permutations that are possible?