by Harold van Garderen | Oct 29, 2014 | Method development
The PNI Institute is currently formed by members that run their PNI practice and strive to improve PNI methods via this platform. Choosing where to publish advancements and where to discuss them is and should be a topic of constant debate.For the moment we’ve...
by Ron Donaldson | Oct 14, 2014 | Casestudy, Education, Stories, Training
Last Friday, in Preston, UK, I was helping to teach engineers ‘how to facilitate TRIZ workshops’ as part of Oxford Creativity’s five day TRIZ training course.Priding ourselves in maintaining as experiential a day as possible, after an energiser, we...
by Aiden Choles | Oct 10, 2014 | Method development, Reflection, Theory
In this article I explore how we may set up our PNI projects in a way that deepens the benefit that participants gain from the process of contributing stories. What if the research we conducted moved beyond an extractive paradigm towards a participatory approach? What...
by Ron Donaldson | Oct 1, 2014 | Profile
Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself...
by Marco Koning | Oct 1, 2014 | Profile
As a psychology student I was one of a kind. My favourite school subject was Methods and Design of Research, and even more rarely, the school subject SPSS (a program to do all kind of statistical calculations). We started to work with SPSS in DOS and it cost a lot of...