Down Your Way - New York, Toronto, Addis Ababa, Mexico City
by Tony Quinlan on Apr 14, 2014 11:29:00 AM
Through April and May, I've got a few trips in the diary. While there's plenty going on at each stop, I'd like to open up the trip to other conversations than just my own.
Toronto - 4 courses in May 2014
by Tony Quinlan on Apr 9, 2014 1:56:26 PM
The excellent Cognitive Edge courses are running again soon - I'm due to be teaching with Michael in Toronto in May - details are here. (The venue isn't confirmed yet, but that's a decision depending on how many people we get turning, so go ahead and book quickly!)
Partnership for Peace - StratComs course slides
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 28, 2014 12:41:50 AM
A lightning visit today to Ankara, for a presentation this morning on narrative to the expected intelligent comments and questions at the Partnership for Peace course which has been running all week.
Halting narratives
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 25, 2014 7:03:29 PM
I'm off to Colombia next week for the latest element of a great project to look at entrepreneurial attitudes across the country - this trip is to present some interim findings, develop some experimental interventions that we'll monitor in the next phase of the project.
How do we draw attention to an absence?
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 24, 2014 12:37:43 PM
Monday reflections on a fascinating previous week, including a great all-day session on Thursday with EU DIGIT, weaving together outputs from a SenseMaker® project, the Cynefin framework, safe-to-fail experiments and some methods from the Cognitive Edge trainings. (It's always good to …
Your answer or your action?
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 21, 2014 6:36:17 PM
A quick one this - I've just spotted Seth Godin's two-line blogpost today:
The Girl Research Unit - Rwanda's expert SenseMakers®
by Tony Quinlan on Mar 17, 2014 1:57:06 PM
The other week I was out in Kigali, Rwanda again - looking at the frameworks and practicalities around the upcoming three-year programme working with young girls across the country. SenseMaker® will be a big part of the evaluation and we'll be exploring how to use it for continuous mo …
One umbrella, many projects
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 31, 2014 5:40:42 PM
On Wednesday, I spoke with various government colleagues about potential applications of SenseMaker. Slides are here:
Connecting with citizens - the United Nations Development Programme and SenseMaker
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 28, 2014 4:25:46 PM
A short blog today - there's a longer one that's half-written about how we might build a framework for common central monitoring of multiple local projects, but that needs a little more teasing out and work to make it mroe practical.
Design of Understanding 2014
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 27, 2014 11:26:50 AM
Last Friday was the 2014 Design of Understanding day - a packed room at St Brides Library off Fleet Street, organised by the redoubtable Max Gadney of After the flood. He and I had come across each other in a hotel bar in Kigali, Rwanda when we were both working the GirlHub Rwanda off …