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20 December 2017
Change strategy

Water and the supercritical world

Mark Foden
20 December 2017
Change strategy

About our mental models models of the world break down in unusual circumstances and our need to be watchful

Tagged: Mental models, Complexity

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Mark Foden
28 June 2017
Change strategy

What kind of a festival are you at?

Mark Foden
28 June 2017
Change strategy
What kind of a festival are you at?

Creating value in complex situations needs different thinking.

Tagged: Complexity, Adaptive Change, Glastonbury

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Mark Foden
4 February 2017
Change strategy

Adaptive change in the NHS - Revisited

Mark Foden
4 February 2017
Change strategy

An update on how much attention is being paid to the principal risk to the NHS's digitisation programme.

Tagged: NHS, Complexity, Adaptive Change

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Mark Foden
21 December 2016
Change strategy

The bike and the Banjo bunch

Mark Foden
21 December 2016
Change strategy
The bike and the Banjo bunch

How Strava and Banjo Cycles in Newbury have made me fitter. WIth a thought on how change happens.

Tagged: Change, Social Tools

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Mark Foden
16 December 2016
Change strategy

Metaphors affect us

Mark Foden
16 December 2016
Change strategy

About metaphors and how they affect what we think and do.

Tagged: Complexity, Metaphors

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Mark Foden
4 November 2016
Change strategy

NHS Gazette & Herald article on implementing EHR systems

Mark Foden
4 November 2016
Change strategy

A potential approach to balancing the effects of the likely widespread implementation of US Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in NHS hospitals

Tagged: Adaptive Change, EHR, NHS, SME

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Mark Foden
2 November 2016
Change strategy

Adaptive change in the NHS - a missing conversation

Mark Foden
2 November 2016
Change strategy

The need for a conversation about Adaptive Change in the NHS

Tagged: Adaptive Change, Change, Complexity, NHS

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Mark Foden
4 October 2016
Facilitation

We should talk more with each other

Mark Foden
4 October 2016
Facilitation
We should talk more with each other

About an agendaless, unconference-style meeting on the topic of women in technology.

Tagged: Conference, Change, Leadership, Unconference

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Mark Foden
21 September 2016
Communication

Not really digital

Mark Foden
21 September 2016
Communication

Email and electronic documents are the main tools of management communication but they are computerisations of paper processes. Better tools are available.

Tagged: Digital Transformation, Email, NHS

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Mark Foden
14 September 2016
Communication

Communications at the NHS' digital gunfight

Mark Foden
14 September 2016
Communication

A comparison of the internal comms practices of the NHS and digital organisations. To digitise successfully the NHS will need to change.

Tagged: Business Change, Collaboration, Digital Transformation, NHS, UK Government IT

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