Roisin Markham

Its a reality in my garden right now and a metaphor for my internet wanderings in the last week.

EVENTS

Interaction 2020 10 – 14 of November the 7th global conference about Enterprise Design. Bringing together a global community with the shared ambition to design better enterprises. Join a virtual learning summit along with your peers to discuss and discover how we achieve this.
As we tackle the global crisis, one thing becomes obvious: we need better enterprises, now more than ever. To do more than just survive; to deal with disengagement, to repurpose capabilities and find new opportunities, to avoid irrelevance and build resilience.

A book project with https://journalofbeautifulbusiness.com/you-matter-more-than-you-think-2e15e2bd6797 discovered from @Dangerousmeredith The Great Wave waklet an event I wanted to attend but it was expensive.

Stir to Action – a great looking website with lots of resources. I’ve bought a ticket for Make your own DisCO! (Distributed Co-operative Organisation) Make your own distributed Co-operative Org on the 30 November. Looking forward to attending it. I’m interested in new business models and and approaches for local and sustainable communities. I have a few ideas and I want to prototype them modeling a particular approach. Tying into ideas of stewardship ownership, build back better, doughnut economics, SDGs and communities of purpose.
I keep going back to Don’t go back to normal as a reference point on this.

BIOFARM 2020 NOTS highly-anticipated BioFarm Conference will take place online across November 9th – 13th 2020. Acclaimed and highly-respected international speakers – Gabe Brown, Allan Savory, Dr Christine Jones, Nicole Masters, Richard Perkins, Hamish Bielski. Great value for €50.

Blockchain Revolution event, now over.

This is going back a while Circularity 20, I went back to access the content, an excellent conference by Greenbiz.

READING

A topic dear to my heart & business How to incorporate the SDGs into your business via Fastcompany with an excellent link to the SDG Action Manager. Contact me if your business needs support in bringing the UN Sustainable Goals to your board room, strategy or mapping it into your products/services, employees work, processes and workflows.

I’ve a whole piece of work around Design Thinking in November. If you have ever had an open conversation with me @ DT you will know I’m slightly irreverent about the methodology. I think its been bamboozled, abused, shrunk beyond useful, distorted for bizarre commercial purposes like innovation theater and innovation selling.

“Design is a talismanic word” Maggie Gram

I also have come to the conclusion that human centered design is flawed, humans need to be off center and nature put back at the core. DT done badly is linear, done well can be circular and systems based. So I enjoy reading both sides of the coin on Design Thinking and continue to educate myself and others around and about it.
This is a provocative read from Maggie Gram On Design Thinking about the history and meaning for design thinking, the Gainesville’s design experiment. She articulates a lot of what I perceive as issues with DT.
“To be a design thinker, then, is to see a hospital-shift change and a guerrilla war as design problems. It is to see “design,” whatever the word might mean, as applicable to just about anything. But even as “design thinking” rendered “design” yet more capacious ,  it also jettisoned the self-conscious suspicion of “methodology” at which designers, following Horst Rittel, had arrived in the ’60s. Design thinking was unambiguously a recipe, a formula, a five-step program. The stories of Kaiser and Colombia are stories of a defined and tidy linear process, a jaunt from one colored hexagon to the next.
…design isn’t magic. To address a wicked problem is to look for its roots — and there’s no hexagon map for getting there. Stop at “insufficient competitiveness” and what you get is a solution that can be tidy exactly because it doesn’t touch the deep causes of Gainesville’s economic stagnation. You get a solution that’s indifferent to the legacies of slavery and segregation, to the highway projects that systematically cut off and blighted East Gainesville, to East Gainesville’s miserable public transportation, and to Florida’s $8.46 minimum wage. Stop at that top turtle and you miss that it’s turtles all the way down.
Better to acknowledge, as Rittel wrote in 1988, that the top turtle often obscures real, substantial, and inconvenient difference. There is no consensus as to how resources should be distributed, social life arranged, justice done. To design, really design, is to acknowledge those divergences — and then to listen one’s way, and push one’s way, to somewhere new. Such battles from competing positions can be truly wicked, Rittel believed, but it’s better to fight than to obscure irresolution with optimism. He had a point. Design may come in an elegant package, but it doesn’t always make things right.”

Following on the thinking piece, writing as thinking.

Some other reading it might look meandering but there are threads to work, research and client work.

How to Use Reddit for Keyword Research to Amp Up Your Content Marketing Strategy

Energy Efficiency as a Service: Having Cake and Eating It Too

Draft Wexford County Development Plan (2021-2027) public consultation here.

Poet of Loneliness “Chekhov’s audience cannot help thinking: If only we would enter into the feelings of others, life would be so much better.”

Bioeconomy Glossary of Terms Launched by the National Rural Network, Ireland

Cornavirus the global crisis in data FT – very impressive data visualisation, bringing meaning and depth to knowledge. October 2020

I was reminded about Henry Chesbrough and open innovation on a recent call, I heard him speak in Queens University 2009. I see he has a new book, must come back to this.

Reclaiming Context, Connection and Collectivity for Regenerative Cultures a review of sorts, speaking to Tyson Yunkaporta’s Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World – have you read it yet? 20 quotes from the book are included.

“There is more to narrative than simply telling our stories. We have to compare our stories with the stories of others to seek greater understanding about our reality.”

Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk

OPS2020 Our Public Service 2020 is the framework for development and innovation in Ireland’s public service. An open approach to innovation in the public sector, I just hope they know its not about digital but about service design.

Learning experience canvas, very boring flat design but was informing my thinking about a knowledge canvas. Subsequently came across language patterns for learning and an interesting.

Don’t rely on Wow effects I want _________ to be remembered for:
And then what? A nice short read and texture piece on embodying your why.

I’ve visited the Wellbeing Economy Alliance a good few times this is the link to Hubs also their link to Well Being & Doughnut Economics, there is a hub being set up in Ireland. This linked me to work with Feasta.

Whats really holding women back? really interesting read on busting myths with data on the work/family narrative, why companies and leaders resit data & the impact on women and men.

“All this led us to what we felt was an inescapable conclusion: For the firm to address its gender problem, it would have to address its long-hours problem. And the way to start would be to stop overselling and overdelivering.”

Beyond Agroforestry? An Introduction to Syntropic Farming

WATCH/Listen

Introduction to Disciplined Entrepreneurship with Bill Aulet on Youtube I have to come back to this one.

Plan on listening to this Discovering your facilitation home base with Jordan Mendoza.

Strategyzer Webinar: Customers & Canvases In Healthcare Business Development Youtube recommended but have n’t gotten around to viewing yet.

TECH/APPs

Discovering Movim.eu an alternative to big tech, decentralized peer to peer chat space. I’ll be writing about this one again soon.

Ideaflip online sticky notes for your team

Conceptinbox visual collaboration for creative teams, prototyping.

If you read this far down, amazing! Can you believe I had all those tabs open no wonder my machine has been cranky & slow.