Getting Started

This post is really the beginning of learning the Blog landscape. The first subject will be Innovation and High Performance. We've recently created an outline for a book on the same subject and Langdon has just completed several workshops in India on Innovation (actually sort of a mix of Business Model Warfare and Innovation). The end result of those workshops will be the development of what will become an innovation dashboard or scorecard. A series of scales that can be responded to (measures) that then create a spider diagram - to give a company an idea of their innovation profile.

In addition, Bryan, Jay and I just completed a workshop where we combined two of our methodologies (Designing Collaborative Events and StoryMaps™). The focus of the workshop was Design - and using design to solve complex problems. The first day of the workshop we brought together a small group of designers (interactive media, industrial designers, an architect, and a small group of collaborative process facilitators). In that session we explored the definition of design, it's various manifestations in these different professions and we looked and extracting some tools (tricks of the trade) that designers use - as a way of applying some research that is taking place at the Santa Fe Institute in which you use the methods of one discipline to solve a problem in another discipline (that's the layperson's way of describing it).

We learned a lot and will continue to pursue our interest in business models, innovation, facilitation of design (the design process) and making complex information accessible to many people.