A signal is a choice
On our next PNI call we are going to talk about the use of PNI for weak signal detection. I was thinking about this, and I realized that every time I hear those three words, a movie scene plays out in my mind. It goes like this. The astute detective and the...
PNI2 Call Recording May 9, 2018 – PNI to find things out (research)
Our PNI Institute call on May 9, 2018 was the first in our "uses of PNI" series. We talked about the use of PNI to "find things out" -- essentially, to answer specific research questions. We talked about projects in which inquiry into particular questions was...
Bursting the services innovation bubble
photo credentials: Chris Ratzlaff Last month we announced the PNI Institute calls in 2018 will revolve around "why work with stories". The calls are great opportunities to swap stories of experience and sharpen your PNI skills through discussing and...
PNI2 Call Recording April 11, 2018 – Project stories
Our PNI Institute call for April 11, 2018 was for trading stories about PNI projects. We talked about projects that surprised us, projects we were proud of, and projects we thought people needed to hear about. And of course we talked about what makes a good project...
Changes to monthly calls: time, recordings, new topics
Two big changes are taking place in our monthly PNI Institute Zoom calls. The time is changing from 10am to 2pm NY time, and we are switching to audio recordings instead of written notes. We also have a new line-up of topics to discuss.
PNI call February 2018: PNI and Narrative Inquiry (Part Two)
Our PNI Institute call for February was a continuation of our earlier exploration of the relationship between PNI and Narrative Inquiry. These are some notes on our fruitful discussion. Proof First we talked about proof, and how there are different forms of it....
Storytelling is the new normal?
Sometimes one gets an opportunity to use a channel to put things forward to an audience one never thought one would meet. Such an event happened last week when I was a guest for the second time in the GloComNet webinar series on Complexity and Uncertainty. The webinar is recorded in a brand new TV studio which can livestream 4K content. The webinars recordings have audiences up to 1500 people, so it was a real honour to be a guest.
Narrative Knowledge Management
We have been told by economic leaders, macro-economic models, the press, and politicians that we live in a globalized world, run by “hot money” capital systems, political superpowers, and large corporations. Dissident voices exist (see for example Doughnut Economics), but the globalised view is the dominant view. In everyday life, however, I observe something completely different. There, local forces and context matter. In this post I want to lay out a different image of the world, one that is more hopeful and human.
PNI call January 10: PNI and Narrative Inquiry
Our PNI Institute call on January 10, 2018 continued our Reading Club series and focused on a paper and video on the subject of Narrative Inquiry. I (Cynthia) started the discussion by noting something that had struck me as curious. When I was looking around the...
We are growing
The PNI Institute now has 85 members! That's an exciting number. Also: we recently discovered that the forms plugin we were using to register new members was not sending out the registration email it was supposed to. So if you registered and didn't get an email,...