Accidental Vagrant

 Exceptional summary of Acoff's ideas: Time With Russell Ackoff video   Pt 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iomyRCjEHA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13YFPmEVIys   pt 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz6Ifs190no https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GftU0PXXSEI   pt 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FqsQX6soeM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FqsQX6soeM&t=50s   pt 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_01hYCGIxA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WefU9Lod82A   pt 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_01hYCGIxA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkHJUcMWyuE   Navy 2 day training https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK0ivV1GEoU&list=PLZyIEtn-bglAPKynIQg6SbRDzdt_sAQ5O

Russel Ackoff was interested in both systems and design.  The Deming Cooperative Ackoff Videos Through the cooperation of Bill Bellows, John Pourdehnad and the Ackoff family, we are pleased to offer these videos for your viewing. http://www.demingcooperative.org/ackoff-videos/

  Reviewing Don Norman’s most  recent blog  on design thinking on Core 77’s  site , I was drawn to an earlier post by Norman on the need for  design education to change . I agree that design education needs to change but for other reasons than posted in Norman’s piece. I don’t think design should be scientized or that designers need to become design scientists. I believe that good science is important to the work of designers and that designers need to work with competent scientists, and know how to recognize good science when they see it. It is ideal to have good scientists focused on researching design related issues. For example, sociologists and anthropologists can contribute descriptions and explanations of human behavior to the processes of design inquiry and action, thus assuring better outcomes in the end. Design is not just a form of science anymore than it is just a form of art. It is disciplined and rational but it has its own funda...

A very interesting article appeared in the press a few weeks ago concerning the emergence of a ‘new’ approach  or strategy for making computers and the web less vulnerable to threats of disruption. The ‘new ‘strategy is a design strategy, which consists of returning to the initial design assumptions and first intentions from which the whole complex, almost incomprehensible system of web connected computers emerged. The design strategy is to start over—to ‘redesign’—rather than ‘fix’ the existing mess. Returning to the initial conditions of designed systems or assemblies is essential for any intentional change intervention to be efficiently effective. Too often clients, decision makers or stakeholders are not willing to spend the time and effort to begin at the beginning where it counts. As David Kelley of Stanford’s D School and IDEO fame has stated in an interview : It took Kelley a while to appreciate the power of stepping back before forging ahead. In the ...