Originally posted on Harish's Notebook – My notes… Lean, Cybernetics, Quality & Data Science.:
In today’s post I am looking at the idea of “affordances”. This term is attributed to the famous American psychologist, James J Gibson. A loose explanation of affordances is something that offers ‘action possibilities’ or ‘information possibilities’. For example, a…
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Originally posted on Complexity Digest:
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And on Wednesday I’m hosting the Public Sector Show (29/30 June) – a brilliant conference starting on Tuesday. Free tickets still available at https://publicsectorshow.co.uk/
So the best questions will go into the discussions!
It’s billed as ‘procurement’ but actually is at least partly about how we can reconsider how money is turned into public outcomes!
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