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Strategic design and health innovation studio that brings together systems thinking, behavioural science, data and evidence, and a human touch to addressing complex problems. https://linktr.ee/censemaking
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Agreed. Few people have shaped the way we view the science of animals living in their natural habitats and the role of conservation more than Dr. Goodall.
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Discover the Power of #Journalism in #PublicHealth
Join us for the Dalla Lana Fellowship Online Open House in Oct 2025! Learn how journalism can be a catalyst for public health change. 👉 Reserve your spot now: www.eventbrite.ca/o/dalla-lana...
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Should RCTs be the gold standard of impact measurement?

SSIR’s Aaron Bady speaks w/ Nicole P. Marwell and Jennifer E. Mosley about their new article, “The Nonprofit Sector Has an RCT Problem.”

Join us tomorrow at 10 a.m. PT!

ssir.org/live-rct-conversation
What does complexity look like in our human systems? This article from @cdnorman.bsky.social explores how complexity manifests itself in our human service work #complexity #strategicdesign
Complexity is all over, but it’s also poorly understood how it manifests itself in organizations and with goal-setting. Thinking about complexity means thinking differently — here’s how: cdnorman.medium.com/the-challeng... #complexity #strategicdesign
The Challenge of Complexity
Complexity is a term familiar to individuals, foreign to organizations. Understanding it and its implications can transform everything we…
cdnorman.medium.com
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OCADU Graduate Programs: Evening session with #DanielHoyer + #NealHalverson on What Can System Thinkers Learn from Quantifying History, moderated by #ZaidKhan. Continues work of #PeterTurchin on cliodynamics, with #SoDy as historical policy lab. Mix of cyclical historical framing methods from MRP.
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"The scale and urgency of the current threat should settle a long-simmering debate about the strategic value of targeting oil and gas production directly."

@earthjustice.org president @abbiedillen.bsky.social writes in SSIR on the next chapter of the climate fight:
No Way Out Without a Fight (SSIR)
The ground-up work to stop US oil and gas expansion and create new climate politics
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It's great to see 'design' discussed again. Design is the discipline of innovation, and that means doing something different to benefit people. Design poorly and we end up with many of the lousy programs and policies that we see in our communities. #strategicdesign
Good policy isn't just about good ideas - it's about designing and delivering solutions that truly work in practice.

At Nesta, we’re increasingly using design and policy skills in tandem to grow the impact of our work with key principles to guide our approach ⤵️
How is design enabling us to do policy differently at Nesta?
Sharing our core principles on why good policymaking needs both disciplines working side-by-side
www.nesta.org.uk
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Good policy isn't just about good ideas - it's about designing and delivering solutions that truly work in practice.

At Nesta, we’re increasingly using design and policy skills in tandem to grow the impact of our work with key principles to guide our approach ⤵️
How is design enabling us to do policy differently at Nesta?
Sharing our core principles on why good policymaking needs both disciplines working side-by-side
www.nesta.org.uk
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Consultants can be great partners in creating positive change -- which isn't the case much of the time. Reductionist approaches to complex problems that separate strategy, learning, evaluation, and people are a big part of the reason why censemaking.com/2025/08/27/s... #strategicdesign
Integrating Strategy, Design, and Evaluation for Impact
Discover how integrated strategic design in human services enhances efficiency and impact, moving beyond outdated project approaches.
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Designing care into your organization is not about being nice, it's about setting yourself up to be high-performing, innovative, and complexity-ready.

#strategicdesign #care #design

https://censemaking.com/2025/08/07/caring-by-design/
Profiles in burnout isn't an overly optimistic focus of an article, but doing this draws attention to something that is a critical factor in designing human-responsive organizations.

#burnout

www.strategy-business.com/article/Prof...?
Profiles in burnout
In their new book, leading experts Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter bring academic rigor to organizational responses to employee overload.
www.strategy-business.com
In the last post of the summer series on strategic design and complexity we put it all together and set the table for what we hope will be a wonderful meal. Happy Summer! #strategicdesign #complexity #systemsthinking

https://censemaking.com/2025/08/01/setting-the-table-the-making-of-strategy/
Developmental Evaluation is a way of approaching learning, innovation, and accountability that is suited to innovation, complexity, and uncertainty.

The best way to use it is to prepare yourself first, not just try it "out of the box" (it's never out of the box).
www.cense.ca/developmenta...
Developmental Evaluation Preparedness
Pilots have a pre-flight check before they fly a plane. A developmental evaluation journey requires the same kind of preparedness. Developmental Evaluation (DE) is an approach to strategic learning…
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Design-driven evaluation is a way to embed learning into your organization, prime yourself for innovation, and build in a compass for navigating complexity.

#strategicdesign #evaluation #innovation

https://censemaking.com/2025/07/24/design-driven-evaluation-and-strategic-design/
Foresight is one of the features of strategic design that sets it apart from traditional plans, by helping you envision futures and the systems needed to get you there. #strategicdesign #foresight #systemsthinking

https://censemaking.com/2025/07/18/strategic-foresight-and-design/
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Circle on "What Can SystemThinkers Learn from Public Transit Planning" with #AndrewMiller + #SergioDeLara, moderated #ZaidKhan . Public accounting discourages government hiring experts, private sector contractors assuming risk. Plans for urban transport need political will. #SystemsThinking (OCADU)
How do we connect systems thinking with our intentions? Strategic design is the means to connect where we're sailing to, our journey and where we dock and this is where we connect it together. #strategicdesign

https://censemaking.com/2025/07/11/systems-thinking-strategic-design-and-transformation/
What does strategic design look like? It's about connecting intention, imagination, production and learning using systems thinking to achieve sustained change. In this article, we look at what…

https://censemaking.com/2025/07/03/strategic-design-bridging-complexity-planning-evaluation-for-impact/
Strategic design will always require leadership to translate ideas, inspiration and strategy into action. In complex conditions, this means setting a leadership course that involves humility, agility, and…

https://censemaking.com/2025/06/26/leadership-for-complexity-humility-inquiry-and-agility/
Strategy making is the intentional way of charting your ship across the seas of complexity and arriving safe and sound. In this latest in the Censemaking summer series, I take a closer look at the strategy…

https://censemaking.com/2025/06/14/strategy-for-leadership-by-design-a-brief-introduction/