Chance and fate in making the connections that ignite the creative spark. At one time or other we all will call on inspiration, support and/or ‘reality checks’ from others with a different perspective, or perhaps wish we had done in hindsight! Some thoughts on how this can happen and how we might help develop an environment to increase the chances of it happening.
This presentation is Marina Noordegraaf’s visual adaptation of the message and content of the book “The starfish and the spider” by Ori Brafman en Rod A. Beckstrom
(www.starfishandspider.com)
This presentation uses the free District Thin font from Phil's Fonts.
To view the presentation properly, please download the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/alanstevens/none-of-us-is-as-good-as-we-think-we-are/download
and font: http://www.philsfonts.com/freefont.html
This presentation is Marina Noordegraaf’s visual adaptation of the message and content of the book “The starfish and the spider” by Ori Brafman en Rod A. Beckstrom
(www.starfishandspider.com)
This presentation uses the free District Thin font from Phil's Fonts.
To view the presentation properly, please download the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/alanstevens/none-of-us-is-as-good-as-we-think-we-are/download
and font: http://www.philsfonts.com/freefont.html
Workshop about increasing the impact of your research, the importance of good communication (incl. storytelling) and the use of social media.
Given at Research Day of Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University.
Facilitating Complexity: Methods & Mindsets for Exploration William Evans
An updated presentation delivered at PwC in Melbourne Australia
Will Evans explores the convergence of practice and theory using Lean, Design Thinking, Theory of Constraints, and Service Design with global enterprises from NYC to Berlin to Singapore. He works with a select group of clients undergoing Lean and Agile transformations across the entire organization. Will earned his Jonah® from AGI, and serves on the Board of Advisors for Rutgers CX (Customer Experience). Formerly, he was Design Thinker-In-Residence at NYU Stern.
Will was previously the Managing Director of TLCLabs, the world's leading Lean Design Innovation consultancy where he brought LeanUX, Lean and Kanban to large media, finance, and healthcare companies.
Before TLC, he led experience design and research for TheLadders in New York City. He has over 15 years industry experience in design innovation, user experience strategy and research. His roles include directing UX for social network analytics & terrorism modeling at AIR Worldwide, UX Architect for social media site Gather.com, and UX Architect for travel search engine Kayak.com. He worked at Lotus/IBM where he was the senior information architect, and for Curl - a DARPA-funded MIT project when he was at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.
Will is passionate about coffee, so much so that he started his own brand of organic single-origin coffee beans. He Co-Founded and Co-Chaired the LeanUXNYC conference, Founded the AgileUX NYC conference, and was also the User Experience track chair for the Agile 2013/2014 conferences.
Neuroscience offers some new insights into the challenge of change and strategy execution in organisations. This article, part 1 of a three part series, explores why people cannot see the future as clearly as the change leader expects.
A session about the importance of knowledge management from Dr Madhukar. This was presented in the Whatfix Inspire series where external experts are invited to speak about an impactful topic.
WLMA 14 Conference Keynote PPT - Paige Jaeger: Connecting Creatively with the CCPaige Jaeger
Washington Library Media Association Conference Keynote - It was my pleasure to share ways to challenge, reach and teach the Millennials at your conference! Carpe Diem! Let us think!
Workshop about increasing the impact of your research, the importance of good communication (incl. storytelling) and the use of social media.
Given at Research Day of Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University.
Facilitating Complexity: Methods & Mindsets for Exploration William Evans
An updated presentation delivered at PwC in Melbourne Australia
Will Evans explores the convergence of practice and theory using Lean, Design Thinking, Theory of Constraints, and Service Design with global enterprises from NYC to Berlin to Singapore. He works with a select group of clients undergoing Lean and Agile transformations across the entire organization. Will earned his Jonah® from AGI, and serves on the Board of Advisors for Rutgers CX (Customer Experience). Formerly, he was Design Thinker-In-Residence at NYU Stern.
Will was previously the Managing Director of TLCLabs, the world's leading Lean Design Innovation consultancy where he brought LeanUX, Lean and Kanban to large media, finance, and healthcare companies.
Before TLC, he led experience design and research for TheLadders in New York City. He has over 15 years industry experience in design innovation, user experience strategy and research. His roles include directing UX for social network analytics & terrorism modeling at AIR Worldwide, UX Architect for social media site Gather.com, and UX Architect for travel search engine Kayak.com. He worked at Lotus/IBM where he was the senior information architect, and for Curl - a DARPA-funded MIT project when he was at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.
Will is passionate about coffee, so much so that he started his own brand of organic single-origin coffee beans. He Co-Founded and Co-Chaired the LeanUXNYC conference, Founded the AgileUX NYC conference, and was also the User Experience track chair for the Agile 2013/2014 conferences.
Neuroscience offers some new insights into the challenge of change and strategy execution in organisations. This article, part 1 of a three part series, explores why people cannot see the future as clearly as the change leader expects.
A session about the importance of knowledge management from Dr Madhukar. This was presented in the Whatfix Inspire series where external experts are invited to speak about an impactful topic.
WLMA 14 Conference Keynote PPT - Paige Jaeger: Connecting Creatively with the CCPaige Jaeger
Washington Library Media Association Conference Keynote - It was my pleasure to share ways to challenge, reach and teach the Millennials at your conference! Carpe Diem! Let us think!
1. National context –are we making our mark?
• The UK National Strategy and Target for Outward Student Mobility
•International context: mobility rates by country
2. Research:
• A picture of participation (who, what, where?)
• Widening participation in outward mobility (findings and current practice)
• The value of outward student mobility: UUKi’sGone International cohort studies
3. The Go International: Stand Out campaign
• activities and how to get involved
The lessons learnt through a critical investigation of professional development and career progression for professional services staff and its significance to Strategic HRM: A Case Study at Keele University
Cross departmental effectiveness to improve the student experience: case study – Louise Medlam (Academic Registrar) and Lynn Jones (Deputy Academic Register) – Glyndwr University
AUA Mark of Excellence information session from Amanda Shilton Godwin AUA – including LJMU’s reflections of going for the MoE; John Trantom (Leadership and Development Adviser), LJMU
Professor Brad Mackay explores some of the critical uncertainties posed by Brexit and how they might shape the international competitiveness of the sector in the future.
Dr O’Halloran shares with the network a range of initiatives at the University of Strathclyde, designed to enhance the experience of under-represented groups and demonstrate the University’s core values.
Whether it’s for a job interview, in a team meeting or at the AUA conference, the chances are that you will need to give a presentation at some point in your career. Finding the presentation style that suits you will help you go from death by PowerPoint to creating engaging and memorable sessions for any audience.
We have all been told about the benefits of building a network of contacts, but what can you do if you don’t like ‘networking’? In this talk I will show how I used social media and external organisations to build up my list of contacts and gain a good reputation in HE for my work in data management.
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Introducing Acorn Recovery as a Service, a simple, fast, and secure managed disaster recovery (DRaaS) by IP ServerOne. A DR solution that helps restore your IT infra within minutes.
This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
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This presentation, created by Syed Faiz ul Hassan, explores the profound influence of media on public perception and behavior. It delves into the evolution of media from oral traditions to modern digital and social media platforms. Key topics include the role of media in information propagation, socialization, crisis awareness, globalization, and education. The presentation also examines media influence through agenda setting, propaganda, and manipulative techniques used by advertisers and marketers. Furthermore, it highlights the impact of surveillance enabled by media technologies on personal behavior and preferences. Through this comprehensive overview, the presentation aims to shed light on how media shapes collective consciousness and public opinion.
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
0x01 - Newton's Third Law: Static vs. Dynamic AbusersOWASP Beja
f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
About the Speaker
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Diogo Sousa, Engineering Manager @ Canonical
An opinionated individual with an interest in cryptography and its intersection with secure software development.
Sharpen existing tools or get a new toolbox? Contemporary cluster initiatives...Orkestra
UIIN Conference, Madrid, 27-29 May 2024
James Wilson, Orkestra and Deusto Business School
Emily Wise, Lund University
Madeline Smith, The Glasgow School of Art
2. A Chance Encounter or Fate?
Is that a piece of grit in your
eye?
No, I’m crying with joy that my Exceptional
Factors DB is ready to go live
3. “Brutus:
There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the
flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and
in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the
current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Julius Caesar Act 4, scene 3,
218–224
Horace Walpole - ‘Serendipity' = “a certain kind of happy accident: the kind that
can only be exploited by a “’’sagacious’ or clever person”.
Be Prepared for Chance Encounters
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You
know that's a really good argument; my position is
mistaken,' and then they would actually change their
minds and you never hear that old view from them
again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as
it should, because scientists are human and change is
sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot
recall the last time something like that happened in
politics or religion.
(1987) -- Carl Sagan
4. We all would like to be the sole creative genius at times but most of the time we could do
with a little help from our friends:
Tim Smit and the Eden project
Penzias and Wilson – CMB
Crick and Watson – DNA
Lennon and McCartney
Einstein – lone genius or….
“If Einstein had understood 19th-century geometry, he would have got his two
theories of relativity sorted out a lot sooner. “
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13718543-900-pay-attention-albert-einstein/
Fortune Favours the Connected
5. A Friend in Deed…..
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson 1965
CMB and Nobel prize ‘by accident’.
Noise mucked up their investigations, cleaned the telescope, hunted
the pigeons down and then……
One conversation later…….
Tim Smit and Eden project -
http://www.richardsandbrooksplace.org/tim-smit/eden-project
And the point is…………
Lucky encounters – but luck favours the keen with the ideas waiting to happen
6. Does This Matter to us? ‘Knowledge Workers’?
“Knowledge workers engage in ‘’peer-to-peer’’ knowledge sharing across
organizational and company boundaries, forming networks of expertise.”#1
Do we facilitate that?
How – self-help, and organisation design
1. Design office for conversation
2. Encourage different types of knowledge sharing
3. Incentivise knowledge sharing
4. Revamp training and ‘onboarding’
5. Knowledge Management Systems
https://bloomfire.com/blog/522359-5-ways-to-encourage-knowledge-sharing-within-your-organization/
1. Tapscott, Don; Williams, Anthony D. (2006). Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. New York: Penguin. ISBN 1-59184-138-0.
7. With a Little Help from My Friends?
If you don’t know the answer then do you know someone who does?
And are they available, will they text back?
Will they tell you anything useful?
Will they tell you that you are wrong or sadly misguided?
Are they right?
Have they got a different idea?
Is it really better?
Who’s reliable?
So how effective and reliable are the formal, and informal, channels and can we improve
on them a bit?
8. Ignoring the Structure Charts for a Minute….
Do you really know your own organisation, your own sector, etc?
Do you know who really knows what about things work currently?
Making changes – how much is new, how much new to you, how much has happened before,
happened elsewhere etc
Trust Networks: the formal vs the informal
Turning it from weakness to strength
How can we facilitate this?
Who sorts it? Organisational memories – cultural traditions – how recorded and utlised?
Blinded by [Management] Science?
Where are the people/expertise lost in the process maps?
People as dynamic agents of change
9. Examples : Trust Networks
The Hidden Power of Social Networks:
Understanding How Work Really Gets
Done in Organizations Hardcover – 2 Jun
2004
by Robert L. Cross (Author), Andrew
Parker (Author)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hidden-Power-Social-Networks-
Understanding/dp/1591392705
• Can cut through layers of bureaucracy and reduce costs bringing together the experts.
Unlikely to actually match the formal organisational structure chart.
10. Self Evaluation Questions
HR policies – what does it profit you to share knowledge and your expertise?
Q - Anything in place?
Learning systems, reward, development, etc
Q - Anything in place?
Support and mentorship
Q - Anything in place?
Innovation – ‘’practise or just preaching’’
Q – Anyone had their idea taken forward?
Is networking in your job description?
Maybe, but what does it mean, how measured, how supported?
Not just limited to formal training
http://jarche.com/2015/12/learning-in-the-network-era/
11. Learning not Just Training
InteractiveDiversity of
opinions
Exploratory
Unmediated
Social
Learning
12. How Can Others Help You Become The Expert
Get Help: Find a mentor who can help you develop that image in your head of the best way to
do something.
It’s Not “Try Harder”, It’s “Try Different”: Design specific activities to address your weak
points.
It’s About Doing, Not Knowing: Remember the three F’s: Focus, Feedback, Fix it.
Study The Past To Have A Better Future: Find examples that have been judged and quiz
yourself.
Anders Ericsson, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
You are aiming to acquire expertise not just knowledge
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/08/working-hands-happiness-
burkeman
13. What Can You Do?
And How Can the organisation Help?
There aren’t enough hours for you to
practise everything
How do you get to practise – not the
same as doing the same job for a long
time
Practise lets you make mistakes,
experiment
So how do you do that?
Learn from others – and I suggest - pool
expertise and pool experience of failure
“…it is much easier to present knowledge to a large group
of people than it is to set up conditions under which
individuals can develop skills through practice.”
Anders Ericsson, professor of psychology at Florida State University, with
Robert Pool, Secrets from the New Science of Expertise.
http://time.com/4461455/how-to-become-expert-at-anything/
14. Challenges and Risks
Collaboration vs ‘Old boys network’ – openness and inclusiveness
Assess Effectiveness
Resistance to change or Wise Counsel
Extroverts vs Introverts –
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
And in case you’ve had enough
"a vision of the future in which we somehow take leave of material reality and glide about in a pure
information economy." This is the vision peddled by numerous commentators on the future of the
internet: an ethereal, anchorless world in which all we do is exchange ideas, where everything is funded
by advertisements for everything else, and in which all that matters is the production of knowledge
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/08/working-hands-happiness-burkeman
The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels
Good by Matthew Crawford
15. Summary
What can you do?
What can your institution do?
Make the contacts and make it happen!