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Top pages, sketches fto layout the sequence for a 3d animation I was working on.
Bottom left... bleeh.
Bottom right, killing time.
Bill Westerman has joined the back-to-paper movement. Here are a couple of Bill's ingenous methods for managing his time and to-do lists in his notebook.
Bill prefers the Miquelrius notebook (shown here).
Roll over the photo to see how it works.
Don't quote me on this -- just something I'm working on, trying to map some visual frameworks to the various lenses.
…about ¼ of the mural flow, scribed in real-time…
In preparation for the MLab Management 2.0 conference, Gary Hamel paraphrased a brainstorming interview we did in advance about how large organizations could become more innovative, adaptive and engaging [to clarify, what follows was my input to the brain spa]:
Flaws
Large group sizes working on any project and/or involved in most important decisions, and all sustaining the same business model (vs. competing to develop alternative concepts).
Work organization patterns that systematically eliminate options more than a standard deviation away from the mean.
Promotion and reward mechanisms that favor convergence to the mean and “playing well with others” over bold moves.
Fixes
Many (competing) small teams of 3-5, then reorient decision making to support selection of “winning” project ideas.
Four tenets jump to mind if we consider the Wisdom of Crowds as an emergent phenomenon, operating at a higher level of abstraction:
1) team (thinking style) diversity is more important than individual ability
2) disagreement is more important than consensus
3) and the voting policies and selection mechanisms that you put in place are more important than the coherence or even the comprehensibility about what you do.
4) The role of upper management is to tune the parameters of communication
Hire and build organizations to sustain group (hive) learning over individual learning, by consciously assembling teams of MIN 3 and MAX 7 with very diverse approaches. Number of teams you assign depends on the range of probability that you’ll get a very different, compelling answer out of one of them.
Structure the organization for more failure and greater selection of non-normative choices through difference-seeking voting policies and more observation of - and experimentation with - “perturbations” (vs. predictive extrapolation).
Other
DFJ uses voting methods that allow a vocal minority to overrule a wishy-washy majority, if the goal is to advance a very different concept. (“Passion-weighted vote”; “Silver bullets”).
You might improve a corporation’s ability to allocate resources across a more diverse portfolio of ideas if you can put those decisions in the hands of executives not vested in day-to-day execution of the initiatives (as the venture model - or Richard Branson - does).
Firms need to cross the threshold of accepting that they’ll be wrong more than 50% of the time when pursuing disruptive innovation, and therefore need to swing for the fences more often to make up for more losers.
Todo board for the slip method
A magnet board made from an old picture frame and some weathered galvanised steel. The action slips are arranged in context groups, e.g. 'dry weather', 'daytime', 'neutral' etc. with symbol and code magnets giving further information, and identifying the actions on the time graph to the right.
The advantage of writing a todo list on individual slips is the flexibility of being able to rearrange them, and move the slips to wherever they may be needed at any given time, e.g. from conception on the move to a project file, to the tickler, to the todo board, and maybe to a portable mini folder/wallet as a reminder when on the go, and perhaps back into the tickler for rescheduling. When the job is done, the slip is removed and the integrety of the list retained. The slip can also have additional, possibly dynamic information added to it, like context or symbols for importance, effort , concentration or time required, or any other criteria.
Top pages... scenes from a B&B we were staying at during a winter weekend out in Vermont.
Bottom left... interface for a game.
Bottom right, thumbnails flow for a website I designed.
Every company has a culture, but it can take time to learn, and the stated culture can often differ significantly from what people actually experience.
At XPLANE we have created a visual map of our culture, to guide our teams in daily decision making and help them make choices that are consistent with what we stand for and who we want to be.
Roll over the photo for notes.
Top pages... some study on master's work...I was killing time obviously.
Bottom left, flows for an interactive work.
Bottom right, a concept for puzzle game, mechanics.
In the workshop I gave in Chicago last week someone asked me to describe how a baseball field is organized in terms of visual language. Here's an attempt. You might have to make me a contact before you can view the large version.
Another evening reflection on business model innovation with a graphical outcome... Check out the corresponding blog posting...
You can find more work about my business model & strategic concepts on my website at:
Design
and on my blog at:
Design Blog
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Daniel Schmitt: "Through its publications as the world’s only functioning whistleblowing platform, WikiLeaks has exposed corruption, political murder, torture as well as abuse of power on all continents.
But not only is WikiLeaks publishing the unpublished. Increasingly WikiLeaks has to preserve investigative stories that classic newsmedia cannot defend against those abusing legal systems in order to stiffle freedom of speech and supress critical voices.
According to the press, the platform has in its short existance produced more scoops than the Washington Post in the past 30 years. It has been called the most successful journalist operation in the world, and its internet address been said to be the home of free speech.
Besides offering the most sophisticated legal and technical infrastructure for the protection of the press and its sources, the recipe for this success is very simple: WikiLeaks is upholding its principles, no matter what.
Join us for a session about the state of the media, possibilities to defend our historic record and requirements for the future to preserve the 4th estate as an independent mechanism to control those in power."
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If you'd like prints or posters of this graphic recording, check out the info on my blog
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Top pages: Game concept and elements design, connected to this page.
Bottom right: A house across from my friend's in Atlanta, Georgia.