I’m Cameron Norman. I am a professional evaluator, educator and designer and President of Cense Ltd. My work is focused on helping organizations to learn, grow, and develop using design-driven evaluation (DDE). Design-driven evaluation isn’t a technique or method but a means of strategic learning and development that connects the practice of design with utilization-focused …
My name is Cameron Norman and I am a contributor to the book Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future edited by Beverly Parsons, Lovely Dhillon and Matt Keene. I’m also a professional evaluator and designer who works with organizations on issues of innovation – which is often about creating services and products that move …
We’re Matt Keene and Cameron Norman, from the Silwood Group, a transdisciplinary group of evaluators, systems scientists and conservation leaders. We’re working to address challenges at the nexus of social and ecological systems where complex situations are common, uncertainty is high and predictability is low. Though we can’t be certain of the extent, we are …
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You might not think so, but I think you’re a designer. My name is Cameron Norman and I work with health and human service clients doing evaluation and design for innovation. As the Principal of CENSE Research + Design I bring together concepts like developmental evaluation, complexity science and design together for clients to help …
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My name is Cameron Norman and I am the Principal of CENSE Research + Design. My work brings together complexity science and design together with developmental evaluation into something I refer to as developmental design, which is about making decisions in the face of changing conditions. Lesson Learned: At the heart of developmental evaluation is …
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I’m Cameron Norman and I am the Principal at CENSE Research + Design where I bring together systems thinking and design with evaluation to help organizations adapt and evolve in complex systems. I use my blog as a way to explore ideas and educate my students, colleagues and clients (present and future) about many of …
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I’m Cameron Norman, and I am the Principal of CENSE Research + Design. Rad Resource – [CENSEMaking]: CENSEMaking is a play on the name of my research and design studio consultancy and on the concept of sensemaking, something evaluators help with all the time. CENSEMaking focuses on the interplay of systems and design thinking, health …
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I’m Cameron Norman and I’m the Director of Evaluation at the Peter A. Silverman Global eHealth Program at the University of Toronto. Since the first time I saw the World Wide Web back in the early 1990’s, I was interested in how social tools and technologies like it could be used to help people solve …
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We are Asma M. Ali, of AA & Associates, LLC in Chicago and Isabel P. Cuervo of the City University of New York. Recently, we have been incorporating Design Thinking strategies across our projects in our evaluation practice. Design Thinking (DT), also known as human-centered design, has emerged across several fields as a user-centric approach …
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“Creativity is intelligence having fun”, Albert Einstein. Greetings! I’m Sara Vaca, independent consultant (EvalQuality.com) and recently appointed Creative Advisor of this blog. To start contributing I thought of writing some posts about how creativity intertwines with evaluation. This is Part I of a two-part post. Lesson Learned: Evaluation is a rigorous, systematic transdiscipline. However, evaluators …
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