Category: Sustainability

• Whatever the Problem, It’s probably solved by walking.

  The title of this NYT opinion tells it all… Andrew McCarthy is the author of “Walking With Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain.” Walking is the worst-kept secret I know. Its rewards hide under every step. “walking is man’s best medicine.”“If you are in a bad mood, gofor a walk.…

  walterstiers

  2023-03-27

  Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Sustainability, Walking

  #TheInformationLens

• The complexities of knowledge co-production

  Practical wisdom and virtue ethics for knowledge co-production in sustainability describes how since antiquity, philosophers in the Western tradition of virtue ethics have declared practical wisdom to be the central virtue of citizens involved in public and social life. Practical wisdom is of particular importance when values are conflicting, power is unequal and knowledge uncertain.…

  walterstiers

  2023-02-10

  #Sensemaking, #Wicked, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Policy, Science, Sustainability

  #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

• Paleodiet becoming a reality again:

  Nature Briefing of December 13 2022 tells you about the oldest cooked meal ever found: a tasty-sounding seed flatbread that might have been cooked by Neanderthals 70,000 years ago. Readers had to see that recipe, and palaeoecologist Chris Hunt did not let us down. Here are the edited details: Neanderthal ‘flatbread’Based on an analysis by archaeobotanist Ceren Kabukcu,…

  walterstiers

  2022-12-17

  Science, Sustainability

• Samenwerken als Ecosysteem

  De omschrijving ecosysteem voor een samenwerking kan misleidend zijn. De verschillende activiteiten die de deelnemers dienen uitvoeren, bestaat uit een stroom van informatie, beslissingen, acties, risico, voordelen en waarde, die bij een ecosysteem begrensd of toegeëigend kan worden aan ‘het ecosysteem’. (Zie hierbij ook het concept van FEP). Indien de vermelde stromen in essentie ruimer…

  walterstiers

  2022-10-11

  #Sensemaking, #Wicked, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Social-Technical, Sustainability

  #DecisionIntelligence, #Ecosystem, #TheInformationLens

• Samenwerking en Ecosystemen

  Deze aanpak van de meeste contracten bestaat uit het uitbesteden van opdrachten zonder bijzondere aandacht aan gestructureerd overlegorganen voor gemeenschappelijke beslissingen. Deze werkwijze is terug te voeren op een inzicht in de geschiedenis van “Near-Decomposability”.Herbert Simon is een van de iconen van Near-Composability, een beheer- en bestuur methodologie, die grondig uitgewerkt is een veelvoud management-methodes.…

  walterstiers

  2022-10-11

  #Cynefin, #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Social-Technical, Sustainability

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

• Long live the Queen (he/his)

  The red queen is well knwon, and drives our current economic thinking (too much). I’ve already mentioned the fact of a long history of this theory of ‘Red Queen’ among evolutionary disciplines. There are alternatives, like ‘niche construct’ or ‘White Queen’ , more related to ideas like “commons“, based on ‘survival of the fittest’, in stead of ‘.. of…

  walterstiers

  2022-09-15

  #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical, Sustainability

  #EconomicBehavior, #ProblemSolvingMind, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty

• Fractal Organization

  A recent BCG article “The Organization of the Future Is Fractal” has a clear description of what John Seely Brown expresses as “we’ve moved from the age of enlightenment to the age of entanglement where sense-making aided by imagination is now more critical than ever.” Over the past 50 years or more, as the global…

  walterstiers

  2022-06-02

  #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Sustainability

  #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

• Nos mythologies économiques

  Économie : la raison économique ou comment déconstruire les idées reçues Éloi Laurent est économiste à l’Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques. Pour lui le discours économique actuel est parcouru de fausses assertions, comme par exemple “la protection sociale est ce qui empêche la croissance économique”. Dans “La raison économique et ses monstres, volume 3”, il s’efforce de…

  walterstiers

  2022-06-02

  #stakeholder economy, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Sustainability

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

• Design, Agency and Pragmatic Imagination

  The books “Pragmatic Imagination” and “Design Unbound” from Ann Pandleton-Jullian and JSB ( John Seely Brown) explore to a great detail the need for new creative “imagination” into a practical form. The reasoning builds on the ideas of entanglement, expressed in my previous entry. A great lecture from 2015 is availavle on the video-section of…

  walterstiers

  2022-05-17

  #Wicked, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Life Ideas, Social-Technical, Sustainability

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked

• Enlightement or Entanglement?

  Two great articles build on this idea of the need to get more attention to the connections and relations in between, compared to the specialised detailed view, or to have the multidisciplenary view of entanglement, compared to tradition we learned rom the enlightement. In the 2020 article “Wisdom of stakeholder crowds in complex social–ecological systems“,…

  walterstiers

  2022-05-04

  #stakeholder economy, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Social-Technical, Sustainability

  #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked