Teaching Innovation, Conversations, Community of Practice: Using Knowledge Cafe’s to Share Teaching Best Practice … D.J. Cranfield, D. Gurteen (2020)

Abstract The Internet of Things has brought about changes in the way we live, work and play, enabling enhanced connectedness with associated radical opportunities to improve every sector and area of our lives. Access to information is continuous, ubiquitous, time and place independent, which has revolutionized the workplace, becoming progressively complex, and continually changing. With Continue reading Teaching Innovation, Conversations, Community of Practice: Using Knowledge Cafe’s to Share Teaching Best Practice … D.J. Cranfield, D. Gurteen (2020)

The Trouble with Optimization in a Complex World What maximizing and minimizing get wrong in complex contexts

Business language often assumes the world is stable, measurable, and controllable. In complex contexts, words like maximize, minimize, and optimize quietly overclaim what can be known or achieved. A more honest approach treats decisions as hypotheses, focuses on direction rather than endpoints, and keeps learning open as situations change. Continue reading The Trouble with Optimization in a Complex World What maximizing and minimizing get wrong in complex contexts