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Network of Networks (continued): The Intrinsic Risk of Super Hubs
When an enterprise is successful and grows in size, there is inevitably an increase in the number and quality of interdependencies, i.e. exchanges with other parts of the network of enterprises it is part of. These can include information, money, … Continue reading
Skills vs. Culture in Education – Developing a Solution
In our previous post we looked at the conflicting positions of a school that emphasizes skills vs. a school that emphasizes culture. The ‘skill school’ protects the need to develop ability to apply skills in a work environment, whereas the … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, education, innovation, intelligence, interdependencies, schools, systemic
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Looking at the Core Conflict in Education and Innovation Today
In this post we will be looking at what we consider to be the Core Conflict regarding Education and Innovation. We have analyzed this conflict using a rigorous tool that combines intuition with logical analysis to produce a solution that … Continue reading
While Greece sinks, Canada launches a thousand ships
In the past few days we have read about two starkly contrasting scenarios. In one, the Canadian government awarded three decades of shipbuilding work (33 billion dollars) to two private shipbuilding yards in Halifax and Vancouver. Reports from Greece, instead, … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, ethics, Greece, Nova Scotia, stimulus, systemic
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Think different, and develop and execute different: the pattern of sustainable innovation
There is a unique human ability to conceive an idea. Ideas are born every minute, but only some of them actually make it into the world, and even fewer survive as a sustainable innovation, something that brings benefits to all … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Deming, Goldratt, PDSA, sechel, sustainable innovation, systemic
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Learning to connect the systemic dots
In Toronto, this morning’s paper came with a copy of ‘Corporate Knights – the magazine for Clean Capitalism’. In her Publisher’s Note, Karen Kun raises an urgent question: “In an increasingly interconnected global community, students will need to apply systems … Continue reading
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Tagged intelligence, interdependencies. education, systemic, Systems Thinking
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