conference blogsWell you can't really fault to location (morning view from my room shown) and the company is interesting, an eclectic mix of academics and academic/practitioners. It also became clear that that is no clear agreement on what a system is. define it as any network with coherence, others see it as something with boundaries. MORE >>

I'll be blogging with more detail on all of these over the coming months. Coevolution in biology occurs when two parties exert selective evolutionary pressures on each other as a result of which they are changed. Once that change happens, it cannot be reversed and there are many examples in nature. richer conversations. Reflections MORE >>

We've also discovered that mapping information flows between decisions based on narrative audits (I really need to blog about this) then contrasting that naturalistic this is how it is result with idealised process maps can be very powerful. will blog about that later this week by the way. More on alternatives tomorrow. MORE >>

want to link it with a recent HBR blog post by H James Wilson on experimental learning (Hat tip to @CharlesThrasher for the link), that in turn references Gladwell's popularisation of 10,000 hours of deliberate practice for knowledge acquisition. Something we have lost with central heating, multiple channels and a screen in every bedroom. MORE >>

So when I was explaining this morning to Laurie my understanding of human sensor networks I was prompted to blog about the topic and the role that SenseMaker® plays in delivering organisations the value of human sensor networks. also enjoy stretching my thinking with technical metaphors and their application to complex systems. MORE >>