I'm deep in network evaluation at the minute and came across these five thoughts and fun infographic from #networkscience heavyweight Ed Morrison. His comment around drawings in particular rang very true. It's really hard to make sense of a system that you can't see. #ComplexSystems involve multiple components and connections that can be overwhelming to understand through text-based narratives alone. Visualising a system as a step toward sense-making can be super helpful, providing the infrastructure to help you engage with and navigate that system... I never have more interesting, engaged and thoughtful questions about a system than when I'm sitting in front of a visual of it with a group, always a game-changer! 💫 Anyway, Ed's nice, tidy thoughts below (and I'll pop a link in the comments to his blog where he goes into a bit more detail): ✏ Ecosystems are invisible; we need drawings to make sense of them. 🤝 Three different types of networks combine to form an ecosystem: advocacy, learning, and innovating networks. 🌱 Innovating networks, the main value generators of an ecosystem, take time and trust to develop. 🌐 Ecosystems emerge from platforms that provide safe spaces for innovating networks to form. 🚀 Protocols of simple rules can improve the volume and velocity of innovating networks and the productivity of an ecosystem.
Ed Morrison
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Victoria, thank you for you kind words. My purpose is to share what I have learned from over four decades of dealing with complex challenges. You, and other members of our next generation of leaders, have the opportunity to move humankind in new directions. You can learn more about my life’s work developing Strategic Doing at our Institute’s website strategicdoing.net
I really like this Victoria - thanks for sharing
HORIZON SCANNING. Building Resilient Organisations with Foresight and Horizon Scanning: 📍· foresight is not a prediction. 📍· foresight explores multiple possible futures; it does not end up in a single truth. 📍· It is an ongoing systemic process. 💡 Horizon scanning is used by organisations in complex dynamic environments as a way to reason about the future. It is a method for identifying early signs of potentially significant developments through a systematic examination of opportunities. It explores novel and unexpected issues, including matters at the margins of current thinking that challenge past assumptions. 💡 Horizon scanning seeks to understand what is likely to continue and what could plausibly change. It is viewed as a search for "signals" and is generally found at the beginning of any forward-looking activity. 💡 The core purpose of Foresight and Horizon Scanning activities is to better anticipate future opportunities or threats and to identify issues in the present that are of major importance for possible futures.
Mark Buntzen
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Hmm. This is so interesting. One the one hand I go, “Ooh, interesting diagram.” And on the other hand I go, “What does this tell us that we don’t already know?” It somehow seems self-evident. Isn’t this how we’ve structured all the National Science Challenges, the COREs, etc., etc? Anyhow, I’ll read the article. Perhaps I’m missing something.
▶ Insight 5: Protocols of simple rules are critical to accelerate the development of ecosystems. Simple rules can improve the volume and velocity of collaborations and the productivity of an ecosystem. 🤔 👁🗨 Simple solutions promise cheap applause. But if specialists dare to correctly address complicated issues, they can gain even more: trust. 📌 There have been multiple efforts in recent years to describe and map the emerging ecosystem of people taking novel approaches towards transformation of social, cultural, and economic paradigms. Confidence arises when complexity is acknowledged rather than denied or ignored, accompanied by the implicit note: I can't go into this in epic detail right now. That would take too long and no one would understand. 🗣 Einstein said, “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
Daniel Bassill
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Nice graphic. The role of time in this process cannot be under-rated. Access to on going resources is critical.
Emily Briar
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Simon Terry Dr Tim Mahlberg Sie Meredith Bowden Dave Godden Samuel Wilson Vanessa Brown (She/Her) Bridgette Engeler thought you’d all find this interesting, and I was intrigued by the potential :)
William Stark
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Visuals are key in understanding complex systems. Love the post!
Tara Wingfield
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Kambiz Maani this might intest you?
Foresight * Design * Impact
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