03/08/18 10:12 from Johnnie Moores WeblogI’m developing a new workshop/retreat with my good friend Nikki Hinksman. (Viv is also helping with the design, as we’re planning to offer an Aussie version in a few months) We’re designing it out loud rather than presenting the fi... 21/07/18 15:38 from Johnnie Moores WeblogI hosted an unhurried conversation in London this week. We meet at the Royal Festival Hall, where we can usually find a reasonably quiet space. Only this time, most of the building had been closed for a private booking – a universi... 20/04/18 15:57 from Johnnie Moores WeblogViv and I have been talking a lot about this book: Dietrich Dorner’s, The Logic of Failure. It’s a fascinating exploration of how easily we humans mismanage complex systems. Dorner bases his work on a series of computer simul... 04/04/18 07:59 from Johnnie Moores WeblogSince 2014 I have run over a hundred Unhurried Conversations. These use a simple talking-piece process to allow participants to take turns to speak without being interrupted. I run them most often in a cafe, where any member of the publi... 26/01/18 16:08 from Johnnie Moores WeblogI watched this TED Talk by Kathryn Schulz yesterday: On Being Wrong. One thing stuck in my mind. Schulz asks a few people what it’s like to be wrong, and they reply – “dreadful, thumbs down, embarrassing”. Which m... 30/06/17 14:20 from Johnnie Moores Weblog(Cross posted on Medium) Technical debt is a term used by programmers. Referring to the ever rising cost to projects when short term fixes get applied over time to writing code. Over time, these quick fixes make the overall design ineffi... 05/05/17 08:39 from Johnnie Moores WeblogIn the last three years I’ve run over a hundred Unhurried Conversations. Most of these have been open to the public, while others have been inside organisations as part of the work I’ve been doing with them. I ran them in Syd... 02/04/17 07:05 from Johnnie Moores WeblogWe’ve got a few Unhurried events coming up… Our new group in Olympia, Washington, is having its first Conversation on Friday April 17th The next Unhurried Santa Cruz is on Sunday April 23rd (waitlisting) I’m hosting Unh... 28/02/17 13:22 from Johnnie Moores WeblogThree years ago I first blogged about the idea of Unhurried. It emerged from a series of conversations with my friend Antony Quinn. We share an interest in improv theatre and were reflecting on scenes that were satisfying to take part in... 09/02/17 22:42 from Johnnie Moores WeblogRoland Harwood at 100% Open describes five vectors of our postmodern economy. We do seem to be living in confusing if interesting times, where the benefits of hyper-connectedness are coming into question. Roland refers to Tom Friedman... 23/01/14 18:01 from Creating Positive ContextNB: This is an excerpt from a forthcoming paper: Health Opportunity Design®: Re-Inventing the Front-End of Health Innovation It is widely understood that stakeholders throughout the health care ecosystem evaluate, select, procure and use... 17/01/14 18:23 from Creating Positive ContextThis updated ZinC Growth version of the paper is now available to download here. Comments very welcome. 17/01/14 16:07 from Creating Positive ContextBy Nicki Sutton with Chris Lawer of ZinC Growth Consultancy and ZinC Health Innovation It's that time of year when online commentators offer their insights on what we can expect to be big in healthcare during the coming twelve months.... 12/11/13 08:58 from Creating Positive ContextThe following problems continue to plague innovators: New product failure rates run at 75%-85% New business start-ups are even higher at 92% failure rate There is a high degree of iteration in ideas and business plans needed to succeed w... 11/03/12 08:49 from Tons Interdependent ThoughtsAfter 10 years of using Movable Type as my blogging engine, it suddenly died on me this week. So with the help of Elmine, I've changed over to WordPress for my blogging. Something that was already on my mind for some time. The MT back-en... 26/02/12 15:56 from Tons Interdependent ThoughtsI have been visiting the World Bank the past days to discuss various open data projects, e.g. in Kenya, Moldova and Tunisia. During one of the meetings, an informal one during lunch, we discussed the challenges we see for open data in th... 10/01/12 17:19 from Tons Interdependent ThoughtsLast year following my client-turned-friend Ernst Phaff's lead , I posted a list of things that in 2010 gave me a sense of accomplishment , the Tadaa!-list. As I wrote then "As a 'knowledge worker' the boundaries of work have become all ... 04/11/11 11:03 from Tons Interdependent ThoughtsThe Digital Agenda for Europe is going local across Europe . To translate the high level goals and actions to tangible steps and projects locally, connecting to, interacting with and getting feedback of citizens and stakeholder groups 'o... 24/10/11 07:31 from Tons Interdependent ThoughtsAt the Open Government Data Camp in Warsaw on 20 and 21 October I hosted a workshop on 'making open government data work for local government'. If open government data is here to stay then only because it has become an instrument to gove... 23/09/11 08:29 from Tons Interdependent ThoughtsIn the Open Data arena people often ask if 'the people' are actually 'ready' to deal with the availability of data. Do we have the statistical skills, the coding skills, to make data useful? In my presentations over the past 8 months I'v...