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Collective Intelligence Through Structured Dialogue
Collective Intelligence through Structured Dialogue A methodology for tackling complex challenges with multiple stakeholders INCOSE UK Bristol Local Group, 11 th March 2019 1 Overview Systems Engineers often need to engage with Collective stakeholders and address complex or wicked problems. Intelligence Structured Dialogic Design is a methodology that evolved from the field of Interactive Management in the US, through starting in the 1980s. In its various forms (and under different names) it has been widely applied across the Structured globe in enabling groups to tackle wicked problems and complex challenges, but is not well known in the UK, Dialogue despite applications in MoD, Rolls Royce and the NHS. This presentation will outline the methodology, it’s provenance, and the current state of practice. 2 Applications In today’s world many of the problems are not complicated, they are complex and wicked. The methodology delivers consulting redesigned specifically for these situations. Complex and wicked problems can only be resolved by bringing together people with the necessary variety of perspectives and expertise in a collaborative setting where their ideas are freed, protected, and equally Forecasting an Unknown Wicked Problems and Future and Strategic Planning Complex Challenges considered with all others. 3 The Demosophia Methodology Discover Diagnose Design Define Do Discover Diagnose the Design the Define strategic Implement required system at work path forward priorities and adaptively diversity of develop plans perspectives Colabs 4 Colabs A Colab is a gathering of stakeholders who together share, learn, and create a deep understanding of a complex problem using the Structured Democratic Dialogue (SDD) process. • A unique and powerful type of facilitated meeting • Specifically designed to address wicked problems • Efficiently tapping into the collective wisdom of a wide variety of stakeholders • Harnessing cognitive diversity (knowledge, experience, worldview etc.) • Enabled and supported by technology 5 Colab Principles 1. -
Argues Physician and Sociologist Nicholas Christakis. I
Good Despite all evidence to the contrary, “the world is getting better,” argues physician By and sociologist Nicholas Christakis. It’s in our genes. Design By Julia M. Klein hen you think of shipwrecks, you circumstances. Many other shipwrecks— Published in March, and debuting on might imagine the vicious adoles- notably the British explorer Ernest Shack- the New York Times bestseller list, Wcent dystopia of William Golding’s leton’s famously abortive Imperial Trans- Blueprint (Little, Brown Spark) is a sci- Lord of the Flies or the sexual de- Antarctic expedition of 1914-17—off er entifi c manifesto—a fl ag marking a terri- pravities of the Bounty mutineers and stellar examples of leadership and altru- tory of hope during what Christakis con- their descendants on Pitcairn Island. Or, ism. Stranded on desolate Elephant Island cedes is an era of polarization and peril. considering the risks of starvation, you and awaiting rescue, Shackleton’s recruits “It may therefore seem an odd time for might fret over the prospects of cannibal- relied on “friendship, cooperative eff ort, me to advance the view that there is more ism. Such cases have been documented. and an equitable distribution of material that unites us than divides us and that “Two out of the 20!” protests Nicholas resources,” Christakis writes. When the society is basically good,” he writes. “Still, A. Christakis G’92 Gr’95 GM’95, whose valiant Shackleton returned with help to me, these are timeless truths.” ambitious new book, Blueprint: The Evo- more than four months later, all 22 of the Ranging fearlessly across disciplines, lutionary Origins of a Good Society, in- men he’d left behind were still alive. -
Rethinking Health, Culture, and Society: Physician-Scholars in the Social Sciences and Medical Humanities
Rethinking Health, Culture, and Society: Physician-Scholars in the Social Sciences and Medical Humanities April 21-22, 2007 Chicago, Illinois Saturday, April 21 8:30 am Breakfast and Registration Main Lobby 9:30 am Welcome and Opening Remarks : David Meltzer, M.D., Ph.D. Lecture Room 109 (University of Chicago) 10:00 am Keynote : Nicholas Christakis, M.D., Ph.D. (Harvard University), Lecture Room 109 “The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years” 11:00 am Ten Minute Break 11:10 am Research Presentations SESSION 1A: BIOETHICS AND MEDICAL AUTHORITY Lecture Room 001 Moderator : Puneet Sahota, M.A. (Washington University in St. Louis) Julie R. Severson, Ph.C. (University of Washington), “Conflict in the Clinic: Court-Ordered Cesarean Sections” Brooke Cunningham (University of Pennsylvania), “‘Here We Go Again’: Cultural Memory, Moral Authority, and International Research Ethics” Brian Taylor, M.A. (Ohio State University), “Abraham Cherrix and the Question of the Medical Decision- Making Authority of Adolescents” SESSION 1B: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTHCARE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Lecture Room 109 Moderator : Jennifer Karlin (University of Chicago) Jennifer L. Baldwin, M.A., M.P.H. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Designing Disability Services in South Asia: Understanding the Role that Disability Organizations Play in Transforming a Rights-Based Approach to Disability” Sylvia Hood Washington, M.S.E., Ph.D., N.D. (University of Illinois at Chicago), “Historical Interrelationships between Engineering, Infrastructures, and Environmental Health Disparities” Ted Bailey, J.D. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Accommodating Vulnerability: Amartya Sen and Gilles Deleuze on the Ontological Structure of Vulnerability and the Social Ecology of Human Capacity” [email protected] www.med.uiuc.edu/ssmhconf 11:10 am Research Presentations (continued) SESSION 1C: MEDICAL PRACTICE AND SOCIAL POSITION Lecture Room 115 Moderator : Andrea Brandon, M.A. -
Nicholas Alexander Christakis
page 1 of 38 CURRICULUM VITAE PART I: General Information Date Prepared: January 12, 2020 Name: Nicholas Alexander Christakis Main Office Address: Yale Institute for Network Science P.O. Box 208263 New Haven, CT 06520-8263 E-Mail: [email protected] Websites: www.HumanNatureLab.net www.NicholasChristakis.net Phones: (203) 436-4747 (office) (203) 432-5423 (fax) Education: 1979-84 B.S., Biology, summa cum laude Yale University, New Haven, CT 1984-89 M.D., cum laude Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 1987-88 M.P.H. Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 1991-95 Ph.D., Sociology University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Postgraduate Training: 1989-91 Resident in Medicine University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 1991-93 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1993-95 National Research Service Award Fellow Department of Sociology and Division of General Internal Medicine University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH page 2 of 38 Licensure and Certification: 1990 Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners 1993 Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine 2002 Massachusetts License (#212672) 2014 Connecticut License (#53536) Academic Appointments: 1987-88 Teaching Fellow, Department of the History of Science Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1990-91 Assistant Instructor, Department of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1991-94 Fellow, Department of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, -
Blueprint: the Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society | Nicholas Christakis I Do Not Mean That Genes Are the Blueprint
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society | Nicholas Christakis I do not mean that genes are the blueprint. I mean that genes act to write March 26th, 2019 the blueprint. A blueprint for social life is the product of our evolution, written INTRODUCTION in the ink of our DNA. ― Nicholas Christakis Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is a sociologist and physician who conducts research in the areas of social networks and biosocial science. He directs the Human Nature Lab. His current research is mainly focused on two topics: (1) the social, mathematical, and biological rules governing how social networks form (“connection”), and (2) the social and biological implications of how they operate to influence thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (“contagion”). His lab uses both observational and experimental methods to study these phenomena, exploiting techniques from sociology, computer science, biosocial science, demography, statistics, behavior genetics, evolutionary biology, epidemiology, and other fields. To the extent that diverse phenomena can spread within networks in intelligible ways, there are important policy implications since such spread can be exploited to improve the health or other desirable properties of groups (such as cooperation or innovation). Hence, current work in the lab involves conducting field experiments: some work involves the use of large-scale, online network experiments; other work involves large- scale randomized controlled trials in the developing world where networks are painstakingly mapped. Finally, some work in the lab examines the biological determinants and consequences of social interactions and related phenomena, with a particular emphasis on the genetic origins and evolutionary implications of social networks. WHY DO I CARE? I have become increasingly intrigued by what appears to be a resurgence of interest by the public in questions of sociology, evolutionary psychology, and moral philosophy. -
Feminist Twitter and Gender Attitudes: Opportunities and Limitations To
SRDXXX10.1177/2378023118780760SociusScarborough 780760research-article2018 Original Article Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World Volume 4: 1 –16 © The Author(s) 2018 Feminist Twitter and Gender Attitudes: Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Opportunities and Limitations to Using DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023118780760 10.1177/2378023118780760 Twitter in the Study of Public Opinion srd.sagepub.com William J. Scarborough1 Abstract In this study, the author tests whether one form of big data, tweets about feminism, provides a useful measure of public opinion about gender. Through qualitative and naive Bayes sentiment analysis of more than 100,000 tweets, the author calculates region-, state-, and county-level Twitter sentiment toward feminism and tests how strongly these measures correlate with aggregated gender attitudes from the General Social Survey. Then, the author examines whether Twitter sentiment represents the gender attitudes of diverse populations by predicting the effect of Twitter sentiment on individuals’ gender attitudes across race, gender, and education level. The results indicate that Twitter sentiment toward feminism is highly correlated with gender attitudes, suggesting that Twitter is a useful measure of public opinion about gender. However, Twitter sentiment is not fully representative. The gender attitudes of nonwhites and the less educated are unrelated to Twitter sentiment, indicating limits in the extent to which inferences can be drawn from Twitter data. Keywords big data, gender attitudes, Twitter, sentiment analysis, public opinion With or without sociologists, the social sciences are changing. 2017). Already, we are starting to see changes. Economists, As technology has become a more central part of our every- political scientists, and public health scholars have started day lives, there has been an unprecedented increase in the using data from Twitter, Google, and Internet blogs to explore volume of data about nearly all aspects of our existence. -
Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, Phd, MPH, Is a Social Scientist and Physician Who Conducts Research on Social Factors That Affect Health, Health Care, and Longevity
Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is a social scientist and physician who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity. He directs the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. He is the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Dr. Christakis's current research is focused on the relationship between social networks and health. People are inter-connected, and so their health is inter-connected. This research engages two types of phenomena: the social, mathematical, and biological rules governing how social networks form ("connection"), and the biological and social implications of how they operate to influence thoughts, feelings, and behaviors ("contagion"). His research involves the application of network science and mathematical models to understand the dynamics of health in longitudinally evolving networks. To the extent that health behaviors such as smoking, drinking, or unhealthy eating spread within networks in intelligible ways, there are substantial implications for our understanding of health behavior and health policy. This body of work has also engaged the spread of obesity and of emotional states such as happiness, depression, and loneliness. Other recent work has involved experiments examining the network spread of altruism, here and here. Most recently, he has become interested in the genetics and evolutionary biology of social network structure here, here, and here. His book on the way social networks affect our lives, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives is available here. This book has been translated into nearly 20 foreign languages, and it has been widely reviewed. -
The Academic Model for the Prevention and Treatment of HIV
C A S E S I N G L O B A L H E A L T H D ELIVERY GHD-045 JULY 2021 Building the Supply Chain for COVID-19 Vaccines Mid-April 2020 saw a rapid escalation of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the four months after December 2019, when the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China, the virus had infected several million people globally, with more than a hundred thousand confirmed deaths (see Exhibit 1 for daily confirmed deaths by country). China and Italy experienced major outbreaks early and saw hospitals flooded with COVID-19 patients, causing major shortages of vital intensive-care materials. To forestall the overburdening of health care resources, more than a dozen major countries imposed strict lockdowns to slow the spread of the disease, or “flatten the curve” (see Exhibit 2 for a map of government responses). Government lockdowns disrupted supply and demand in vital industries including retail, tourism, manufacturing, and services, crippling the global economy. As the massive scale of the crisis became apparent, financial markets began to collapse during February, leading some experts to warn of a potential next Great Depression and governments to announce unprecedented rescue packages to contain the destructive economic impact of the crisis. As governments navigated trade-offs between economic and public health outcomes, a global race had begun for the rapid discovery, production, and distribution of a safe and effective vaccine. The organization of supply chains to manufacture, distribute, and administer a vaccine to a sufficient portion of the 7.6 billion world population to contain the disease, a concept termed “herd immunity,” posed significant challenges. -
Volume 2, Number 1 February 2004
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EVIDENCE BASED COACHING AND MENTORING ISSN 1741-8305 Volume 2, Number 1 February 2004 An electronic publication of College House Press International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2004 Page 2 The International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring is an international refereed journal, which is published bi-annually (August and February). Its audience is academic specialists, postgraduate students, practitioners and managers who wish to keep abreast of scholarship, theory-building and empirical research in the field of coaching and mentoring. Editorial Board Elaine Cox Oxford Brookes University, UK Andrea Ellinger University of Illinois, USA Anthony Grant University of Sydney, Australia Bob Hamlin University of Wolverhampton, UK Grant Ledgerwood University of Greenwich, UK Sue Kinsey University of Wolverhampton, UK David Prince Prince Consultants Inc. Educational Technology Ohio, USA Pam Richardson United Kingdom College of Life Coaching, Wolverhampton, UK Sherryl Stalinski Aurora Now Foundation, Tucson, Arizona, USA Manuscripts for publication may be submitted to any member of the Editorial Board, or directly to the submissions editor, Dr. Elaine Cox, Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University, Harcourt Hill, Oxford, OX2 9AT, UK Books for review should be sent to the Reviews Editor, Professor Bob Hamlin, Wolverhampton Business School, University of Wolverhampton, Compton Road West, Wolverhampton, WV3 9DY, UK Subscription Information UK: Individuals £20.00 Institutions: £30.00 Overseas: Individuals £25.00 Institutions £35.00 All subscription enquiries should be addressed to:- Pam Richardson College House Press United Kingdom College of Life Coaching, Science Park, Stafford Road, Wolverhampton, UK http://www.ukcollegeoflifecoaching.com International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring Vol. -
Waking up Podcast with Sam Harris Facing the Crowd
Waking Up Podcast with Sam Harris “Facing the Crowd: A Conversation with Nicholas Christakis” Recorded September 21, 2017 – Broadcast October 9, 2017 https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/facing-the-crowd Sam Harris: Welcome to the Waking Up Podcast. This is Sam Harris. I am back from London where I did an event with Richard Dawkins and Matt Dillahunty, and have a few more events with those guys coming up. One with Richard and Matt in Vancouver, and three next year with Matt and Lawrence Krauss. Most of you seemed to love the event in London, and it was a great turnout. There were over 3,000 of you. Given the few comments I heard afterwards, I wanted to clarify a few things. I want to differentiate those events from my live podcast tour that's coming up in Live Nation because I think some people are showing up expecting to see a live podcast produced by me where I had complete control over the nature of the conversation. That's not what's happening at those events. In anticipation of Vancouver and the three events I'm doing with Lawrence next year in New York, Chicago, and Phoenix, I will go out to all of you in social media, and do my best to seed the conversations with questions that most interest you. You should know, for my other events coming up in December and beyond – and those events are in Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, DC, and Philadelphia in December and January – those will be live podcasts. There will be abundant Q&A with the audience there. -
Volume LIII Number 5 September–October 2013
Contents Articles 3 Innovation Over the Edge: Introduction to Special Issue Gordon Rowland 8 Communications Jeremy Bailenson, Patrice Buzzanell, Stanley Deetz, David Tewksbury, Robert J. Thompson, & Joseph Turow; Barbara Bichelmeyer, MJ Bishop, & Diane Gayeski 16 Computer/Information Science Ken Birman, Jennifer Rexford, Tim Roughgarden, Margo Seltzer, Jim Spohrer, & Erik Stolterman; Greg Kearsley, Tiffany Koszalka, & Ton de Jong 25 Design Richard Buchanan, Nigel Cross, David Durling, Harold Nelson, Charles Owen, & Anna Valtonen; Elizabeth Boling, Andrew Gibbons, & Irene Visscher- Voerman 42 Organizational Science Madhu Beriwal, Stewart Clegg, Fred Collopy, Reuben McDaniel, Jr., Gareth Morgan, & Kathleen Sutcliffe; Roger Kaufman, Anthony Marker, & Neil Selwyn 53 Psychology Susan Blackmore, Nadya Fouad, Jerome Kagan, Stephen Kosslyn, Michael Posner, & Robert Ste rnberg; Marcy Driscoll, Xun Ge, & Patrick Parrish Volume LIII Number 5 64 Systems Science Alexander Christakis, Debora Hammond, Michael Jackson, September –October 20 13 Alexander Laszlo, Ian Mitroff, Dave Snowden, & Len Troncale; Alison Carr-Chellman, J. Michael Spector, About This Issue & Brent Wilson A special issue 78 Comments exploring innovation Peggy Ertmer, Denis Hlynka, David Hung, in educational technology Thomas Reeves, Alexander Romiszowski, via connections with & Ellen Rose related disciplines (201) 871–4007; Fax: (201) 871–4009; to order: (800) 952–2665 toll-free in the United States and Canada; e-mail: [email protected] m. Available by subscription only, one year for Educational Technology (ISSN: 0013–1962) is $259.00 in the United States, $289.00 Copyright © 2013 by Educational Technology elsewhere; three-year subscription, $679.00 and Publications, Inc., 700 Palisade Avenue, $749.00. Single issues are $45.00 each. Back Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632–0564. -
John Warfield
DialogicDesignScience DialogicDesignScience Table Of Contents Cogniscope software .................................................... 2 f2f Co-Laboratories .................................................... 3 Links .............................................................. 4 Action Tree ........................................................... 5 Axioms (7) ........................................................... 7 Books ............................................................... 9 Co-Laboratory (f2f) .................................................... 18 Co-Laboratory (Virtual) ................................................. 29 Cogniscope software ................................................... 30 Consensus Methods (7) ................................................. 31 Demoscopio ......................................................... 32 Design Management Team Roles ........................................... 34 Design of Science ..................................................... 36 Dialogue Stages (4) .................................................... 37 Discovery Phases ...................................................... 38 Erroneous Priorities Effect .............................................. 40 f2f Co-Laboratories .................................................... 42 home .............................................................. 48 Innovations in Government Award ......................................... 51 Key Definitions ....................................................... 53 Language