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We blog to share our story about Working Together, Interweaving, and Modern Work-oriented Architecting. By sharing we can inform and encourage discussions and collaborations on the Interweaved world, we all belong to.

Is Design a process or moves

There is an interesting relationship between design and dance. In dance, beginners start out by learning basic patterns. Just as is the case with design thinking and service design, where the simple and appealing 5, 6 or 7-step processes from books, universities and famous companies lure participants into enjoying design. Both beginner dancers and ...

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Tool of the trade - Talking Point Canvas

A Talking Point Canvas is 1-page communication tool that has talking points for communication. The canvas organise talking points in illustrations, diagrams or boxes and they fit on an A5 to A2 paper, Powerpoint page, or a web page.

The purpose is typically to organise and focus communications, discussions and deliberations on a particular topic consisting of several talking points and dimensions.

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Unlearning

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It is rather luxurious to engage in unlearning the not-so-useful and relearning new things. The inspiring books by Barry O Reilly and Nassim Nicholas Taleb are on my desk.In the books, one aspect struck me early, the proven negative effects of rigid mental models and defensive attitudes towards them. For me, practising design thinking is quite libe...

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NEO Generalist

The book "The NEO-Generalist" is a fascinating read, with a surprising connection to Interweaving. It turns out that neo-generalists would make excellent Interweavers with their mindsets. A few examples quotes from the book "The NEO-Generalist", by Kenneth Mikkelsen, Richard Martin, 2016, to illustrates the point. "A neo-generalist is a serial spec...

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