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The economy is changing. The environment is changing. The ways that we communicate and interact are changing. It feels like everything is in flux -- there is a monumental shift in the air.
I can sense it. Can you sense it too?
There is a huge gap between we measure the value of a company and the way the market values it. New models of work are emerging -- the idea of a company as an individual entity is evolving into the idea of a company as an ecosystem.
Would Dell be Dell without its sophisticated network of global suppliers and information systems? Would Wal-Mart be Wal-Mart?
And it goes without saying that companies like Google, eBay and Yahoo are emerging into dominance by finding new ways of defining and creating value.
More than 20 years ago, management visionary Peter Drucker wrote, "The economy is forever going to change and is biological rather than mechanistic in nature."
And yet there is still so much we don't know and have no way to measure.
Yi-Tan means conversations about change. On Monday, May 14th (that's tomorrow for those of you who are reading this on Sunday, or today if you're reading this on Monday), I will join Jerry Michalski on his weekly Yi-Tan call to discuss how visual thinking is changing the way interact and communicate.
The topic: how to build shared visual meaning inside a company. We'll discuss:
-- When is visualization especially useful? How is it changing org charts and other common tools?
-- How do you engage work groups in visualization work?
-- How might we create better shared visual memory? Better visual contexts we can return to over and over?
This is the second call in a series on shared visual meaning. The first one was a group dialogue and I was one of the guests on that one too. You can listen to that call as a podcast here.
We will use a free Web document-sharing service that includes chat capabilities.
At the start of the Yi-Tan call, please head to Vyew and join meeting number 568542. If you'd like to practice with it first, join us in that meeting a half hour before the call starts. Jerry and I will both be there.
Date: Monday, May 15, 2006
Time: 10:30 PDT, 1:30 EDT
Primary Dial-in Number: 1-800-615-2900 (Toll Free in USA and Canada), or 1-661-705-2005 (for callers outside the USA and Canada)
Participant Access Code: 778778
Wiki goodness at www.yi-tan.com
From a mini-workshop I led for Boston area higher education technologist. "Harnesssing Visual Thinking for Project Planning." Great group with folks from Brandeis, Wellesley, Harvard, Brandeis, Tufts, Wheaton College, and Wentworth Institute of Technology. Thanks to David G. Wedaman of Brandeis for being the point man in coordinating the event!
Diagram of my personal analysis of the process of observing reality.
One can see things, but there are always hidden levels of further meaning in every thing.
I think that there are some common rules or patterns in the structure of the hidden sub-entites. It's like a folded carpet - you can guess that it has a singular length, but if you try to unfold it's hidden loops you will discover that it's real length is much longer than you thought first... On a micro focus there will be much more sub-entities to be discovered!
Perhaps you can compare it to the experience in project processes. First you see a clear goal and guess a timeline to receive results. But the deeper you get into the matters the more little details have to be solved before you could achieve results that come next to the desired solution. If you make things too easy you will often only achieve a pseudo-solution that does not stand the goals behind it.
Does it sound well known to you..? :-)
"Creative Scholarship in Educational Development," a workshop led by Martin Springborg and Cassandra Horii at the 2015 POD Network conference
Original Sources of the images:
1. Olmec head: based on picture in class textbook, p. 12.
2. Maya Worker
3. Aztec Warrior from the Florentine Codex
4. Inca — Emperor Pachacuti and Wiracocha
w. sketch of Missouri on the back where my friend from Loose Creek pointed out where his town is
from the moleskine I took to europe sept 06
Before you take care of anyone else, be sure to put on your own oxygen mask first.
Some of you out there are taking care of other people and neglecting your own welfare.
You know who you are.
Take care of yourself first.
Graphic Recording from IFVP Big Apple 2013 conference:
“The Digital Graphic Recorder:
iPads, Tablets, and Virtual/Online
Graphic Recording” with Rachel Smith
Graphic Recording by Lonni Gil
Assistant Clinical Professor
Indiana University
lonnigill@sbcglobal.netl
The route of the word imagination is the word "image." In this excercise, at BarCamp Philly 2009, I asked participants to draw 10 specifically different kinds of images describing an object. Here is one of the visual explorers describing how he visually imagined the object "shoe."
Tip of the hat to Dan Roam who inspired this session with his book "Back of the Napkin."
My seventh graders were learning about China, so we did Chinese-style drawings one day in class. They liked doing them; it's been one of the calmest, easiest classes I've ever had. This was the demo drawing that I did on the board to talk about Chinese style. The kids' drawings were nothing particularly special, since they haven't really played with the style yet. But they were good first efforts.
Obviously, this was done with standard chalk on a slate blackboard.