On September 16, 2019, Cognitive Edge was invited to a Research Meeting convened by the Stanford Center for Design Research and the David Ramsey Map Center. In this session, I joined our longtime friend and partner, Ade Mabogunje from the Standard D-school and his colleague, Salim Mohd, the Head of the Rumsey Center together with 15 […]
In 1990, from a distance of more than 6 billion kilometres away, the Voyager 1 spacecraft took a now-iconic picture of our planet. The image of earth caught as a tiny “dot” suspended like a mote of dust in a ray of light, inspired Carl Sagan to write: “It has been said that astronomy […]
As our business contexts become increasingly complex, the success rate of large scale transformation efforts and projects are rapidly decreasing. Many have been looking for answers to improve their performance and results, often jumping from one method to the next in search of “The Answer”. It is not uncommon nowadays for people to have studied […]
The last day of the festival and I had to grab a quick breakfast. I thanked my hosts at The Cammarch Hotel for yet another good stay and did a high speed dash down the Wye Valley to make breakfast with Jasper Fforde. I bought his first book in Sydney simply for the idea of […]
My second and last day dawns with heavy rain which will persist throughout the day. Pathways become mud baths and the organisers finally give up trying to make us queue outside the tents for a programmed start. Every chairperson apologies for the noise of rain on canvass which is the background to every talk. First […]
I'd been looking forward to this session with Simon Glendinning of the LSE. The issue was the role of Europe a topic which is a difficult one for the English (less so interestingly for the Welsh and the Scots). He was addressing Habermas's ideas for a unified Europe with those implied in Kant and […]
J B White was billed as a Philosopher turned management consultant (one of several with a book to sell at this event) but his session was more pop science than anything else. He was making the legitimate point that a lot of what is called evidence in government is nonsense but there are a lot […]
After the quacking of the last session this was a delight. Alexandra Paulin-Booth a PhD candidate at Oxford talking about the neglect of time in academic history. Just a lovely idea and really well illustrated. OK her presentation was driven by an obvious liking for anarchists but it was a refreshing presentation. I […]
I got the wrong Micael Foley when I booked this. I thought I was getting the historian not a former IT lecturer at a Polytechnic turned University who wants to talk praising the ordinary and made too many jokes about sex with minors for my taste – they were clearly jokes but … Either […]
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