Designing for Transformation
- Book: Designing for Transformation: Stories, principles and practical ways in which we can innovate to a better future (No Straight Lines Project). By Alan Moore
URL = http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B009ZSWB14/nostraightlin-20 (Kindle ed.)
Description
"Dynamic, disruptive and systemic change is presenting businesses and organisations with extraordinary challenges that are economic, technological, societal and cultural all are conjoined and hence complex. How do today¹s organisations innovate to adapt in an uncertain world?
The world we live in today, without a doubt, could fittingly be described as Œthe last of the Kodak moments¹. Squeezing efficiency out of the old way of doing things will not build a brighter future. There is a growing realisation that we are faced with a pressing design challenge of Œwhat next¹ looks like for businesses and organisations; a need to upgrade to be able to belong to the extraordinary human evolution that points towards a more participatory, co-operative and regenerative model of our society."
Contents
Introduction: the last of our Kodak moments
The challenge of living in an ambiguous world
The trilemma of our current age
A new organizational / social / economic model
To be part of the future you have to hack it
Hacking
The hacker ethic and the craftsman
Be realistic imagine the impossible then create it
The six principles of No Straight Lines:
[1] Ambiguity
[2] Adaptiveness
[3] Openness
[4] Participatory cultures and tools
[5] Craftsmanship
[6] Epic: designing for transformation
Stories of Transformation
How the Nova Scotia public health care system transformed itself through people power.
Not a management consultant in sight
Better decision-making Greater commitment
Individual growth
More agility
The aesthetics of designing for participatory leadership
How Patients Know Best is transforming the way patients and clinicians¹ manage chronic disease
An innovative approach to leadership and innovation
So how do we transform to get from here to there? They story of the birth of the Transformation LAB
The human process of design: from managers to craftsmen, from ambiguity to epic"
More Information
Video of a Transformation LAB http://www.no-straight-lines.com/transformation-labs/