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Found In DesignHi, this blog is an unBook: a Creative Commons space for conversations about designing change and solving complicated problems with simple thinking frameworks & communication tools. All you have to do to join the #FiDtribe is post a meaningful ‘Com…
ContextHeadline: User Requirements & Models Don’t Tell the Full StoryKicker: Important dimensions of the problem domain, left undocumented can lead to expensive mistakes and undelivered business outcomes.Exploring user/stakeholder stories thr…
London, Summer, 2006Two consultants, Carl and Nigel, had been asked to look at replacing an IT application shared between the Police and the Crown Prosecution Services (the CPS; government sponsored prosecution lawyers). Initially, they went back…
Geoff McClelland of CIO Connect Hong Kong (my presentation topic: Digital Transformation):”I caught a taxi down to Central with Stephen Langley (SFC) and he expressed a very positive view on the presentation, going as far as saying “that he had b…
Vee-Peck-TeaFurther to my recent post on LinkedIn VPEC-T: A Ten Minute How To Guide, below are a few slides on preparing the audience for a VPEC-T workshop. Ecosystem Behavior Analysis by Nigel Green on Scribd or view pdf here.In this real example, the…
The Realities Of a Messy WorldThanks to Frankhg for the imageThis is a slightly rewritten version of the first public airing of the VPEC-T concept. That was over 10 years ago – it now it has a life of its own, it is, however, the foundation on which “L…
In addition to story narratvies, I’m planning to use ‘pattern’ format for describing the Change Design tools: Here’s an example that describes the Business Service Specification tool (BSS). I would also then go on to describe how it’s been used in two …
The four focus areas aren’t steps in a linear sense – they’re more like wash-cycles. Based on the dirtiness of the laundry is, it might be necessary to go around each cycle a few times. So depending on how ‘dirty’ your problem is; how complex, how big,…
Here’s the initial inventory of tools and where they mostly fit in the Change Design cycle:Find – VPEC-T Analysis (aka 5D-Lens storytelling)Find – Hypothesis-based Analysis (aka Best Guessing)Find – Root Cause Analysis (aka The 5 Whys)Find – Storyboard…
Here’s a poster for a VPEC-T thinking framework to help knotty problem solving & design innovation.This map (infograhic) provides a starter-for-ten checklist of things you might consider when doing a VPEC-T analysis or design – whether sitting at y…