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A Community Fights for Its Right to Healthcare
Customers Enlist Regulators to Preserve Services In Boothbay, Maine
by Patricia SeyboldElderly healthcare customers on the Boothbay peninsula in Maine are seeking help from Maine’s Health & Human Services’ regulators to keep 24-hour services local. MaineHealth requires seniors to drive dangerous roads at night for help. -
Why Chaos Is Important for Innovation
How an Organization, Group, or Individual Can Foster Innovation
by Patricia SeyboldThis book, The Chaos Imperative by Ori Brafman and Judah Pollack, is a must read for anyone who wants to maximize his/her brain power. It will help you, and your team, create the conditions for innovation to occur. -
Why the Healthcare.gov Insurance Exchange Bombed
Policy Makers Insisted on a Customer-Unfriendly Workflow
by Patricia SeyboldThe long-awaited U.S. government Federal health insurance exchange, healthcare.gov, went live on October 1, 2013 and quickly proved impossible to use. Would-be customers were subjected to long delays. Here’s why. -
Have We Consented to Government Surveillance?
Do Citizens, Residents, and People in Other Countries Have a Right to Privacy in the Digital Age?
by Patricia SeyboldEdward Snowden’s whistle-blowing on the NSA, and Glenn Greenwald’s documentation of the technologies and processes used, are a wake-up call for citizens who believe that their private communications should remain private. -
Tackling a Wicked Problem: Water Issues!
How the Delta Dialogues Project Is Using Dialogue Mapping to Build Shared Understanding
by Patricia SeyboldThe Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta Conservancy wanted to engage key stakeholders in planning the future of California’s fresh water supply. They used CogNexus Group’s Dialogue Mapping™ to build shared understanding among polarized players. -
America's First Responders Need Your Help!
Support Legislation that Would Allocate the D Block Spectrum to Public Safety!
by Public Safety AllianceA white paper published by the Public Safety Alliance describing why the U.S. Congress should support legislation to allocate wireless spectrum to public safety. -
Building Interactive Feedback into Your Products and Surrounding Services
How Koko Fitness Enables Four Kinds of Interactive Feedback
by Patricia SeyboldHow could your company benefit from building data gathering and interactive feedback into the products and services you offer? Learn how from Koko Fitness. -
Data Mining at Work
Predicting and Preventing Terrorism
by Mitchell KramerData mining is a powerful and proven analytic technology. This report discusses how it can be used to predict and prevent terrorism and urges its use for that purpose. -
Learning about Emergent Learning, Part 3
From Post Mortem to Living Practice and Emergent Learning in Action
by Marilyn DarlingHow do you transform your organization into a change master? Instill After Action Reviews (AARs) as an iterative learning practice. Don’t focus on “lessons learned;” analyze the ground truth in mid-task and at the end of each iteration. Hypothesize about -
Learning about Emergent Learning, Part 1
The Evolution of After Action Reviews (AARs) at the U.S. Army
by Marilyn DarlingIf you want to master organizational change, we recommend that you unleash the power of emergent learning in your organization. Start with After Action Reviews.
