Archive for October, 2008
The Organisational Zoo with Arthur Shelley
Posted by webmaster 31 October 2008On Oct 28, Arthur Shelley, author of the best selling The Organisational Zoo – A Survival Guide to Workplace Behaviour treated CIN members to an overview of the book and some some of the tools and methods that he has developed over his distinguished career as organisational manager of knowledge.
During the session Arthur described a [...]
Complex Adaptive Systems Workshop with Dave Snowden
Posted by webmaster 31 October 2008On Oct 22 a group of 18 VPS staff from across government joined knowledge and complexity science expert, Dave Snowden for an intimate workshop at the Arts Centre. Together we walked through Cognitive Edge’s application of natural science and humanities disciplines to understand the complexity faced by organisations and how we might better foster innovation.
The [...]
Barwon & Grampian Regions thinking in parallel
Posted by webmaster 30 October 2008Today Planing & Community Development staff from Geelong and Ballarat got together and practiced a range of tools to better enable thinking and collaboration in the workplace.
In addition to the parallel thinking techniques they also looked at Purpose Focus, a tool developed to aid users to be clear and precise about what they wish to [...]
Mental Floss (104)
Posted by webmaster 30 October 2008Well done to Kay McVey of Education & Early Childhood Development who responded with Albert Einstein. This week’s question is inspired by Dave Snowden’s children’s party story:
While the parents are away a teenage boy and his friends drink some of the parents gin. Doing so was strictly forbidden. They then poured water into the gin [...]
And the winners are …
Posted by webmaster 30 October 2008Congratulations to:
Michael Vanderzee, Daniel Mainville, Joady Chick, Bruce Pearce, Darien Wahlquist, Cathie Boschert, Gail Nicholson, Felicity Wardlaw, Lauren Eddy, Stephen Deed & Amanda Fleming of Sustainability & Environment,
Gail Dunn, Karyn Brown & Lisa Gormley of Primary Industries and
Robyn McIntyre of Victoria Police.
All of the above regionally placed members have won a free tickets valued at [...]
Third Rapid Precision Reading Scheduled
Posted by webmaster 29 October 2008Due to popular demand and strong feedback from our previous two sessions we have scheduled a third Rapid Precision Reading session with Richard Yiap for Dec 2.
In our continuous improvement efforts it’s easy to identify problem areas to work on, but what of the things we do quite well and take for granted ? Reading [...]
A New Perspective on Innovation with Dave Snowden
Posted by webmaster 26 October 2008At a luncheon of 300 CIN members this week, Dave Snowden of Cognitive Edge held court and offered a number of thought provoking insights into thinking differently and how we might approach the need to innovate.
Sustainability & Environment Secretary, Peter Harris summed up the content of the session best when he said that he could [...]
Mental Floss (103)
Posted by webmaster 23 October 2008Congratulations to Christian Anderson of Sustainability & Environment who responded with: End – endear, endless & endanger. This week’s question is:
Here is a phrase that when unscrambled, spells the name of a famous person. The phrase gives the smallest of hints to the person’s identity. “BEEN A STAR IN LIFE”
The first CIN member in with [...]
Brain Reading
Posted by webmaster 22 October 2008Only great minds can read this
This is very strange, but interesting!
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New members welcome!
Posted by webmaster 21 October 2008Between now and the end of November all new CIN members will go into a draw to win one of ten books by CIN presenters and authors Edward de Bono, Tony Buzan, John Silvester, Andrew Jobling and Arthur Shelley.
The first prize will be The Ultimate Book of Mind Maps, which has been personally signed by [...]
An invite to learn from public & private sector innovators
Posted by webmaster 21 October 2008The Courts and Tribunals Unit of the Department of Justice invites you to a special two hour presentation on:
Innovation in Action: Learning from public and private sector experience.
The session will feature Neil Twist, Acting Director of Appropriate Dispute Resolution within the Dept of Justice who will speak about developing an innovation programme for Victoria’s Courts [...]
Facilitation Tools for Complex Issues
Posted by webmaster 21 October 2008Are you involved in …
Project Management?
Strategy development and implementation for complex issues?
Balancing the multiple and diverse perspectives of stakeholders?
Cross agency of cross silo conflict resolution and planning?
Needing to engage large numbers of people?
And do you find that …
Some of your facilitation techniques do not work as well as they once did?
You would like to increase [...]
Cognitive Edge Methods & Tools – Practical Application
Posted by webmaster 21 October 2008Join fellow Cognitive Edge Accredited facilitators for a day that will build on the Cog Edge training by:
Exploring the practical application of the open source Cognitive Edge methods and tools and
providing an opportunity to share experiences and collaborate with other practitioners across Govt and industry.
At the conclusion of this full day session, it is expected [...]
Knowledge Cafe with David Gurteen
Posted by webmaster 18 October 2008Last night a combination of members of the CIN, KMLF and the KM Round Table had the pleasure of participating in a Knowledge Cafe with renowned knowledge practitioner form the UK, David Gurteen.
The topic of the session was around identifying the barriers to knowledge sharing in organisations.
The format of the cafe is one in which [...]