Come summer and it is that time of the year to immerse into mapping your complex networks. The two day Net-Map workshop teaches you basic understanding of the method, with emphasis on learning by drawing your network. MORE
I recently went on a mission to Cameroon, where one of my tasks was to facilitate a workshop with about 100 participants. Cameroon is a bilingual country – but that doesn’t mean all Cameroonians are bilingual. MORE
I cannot fly! I know that from experience! Change Management musings opportunities original Artwork personal development Uncategorized Caterpillar Change Musings New Year''s Resolution Original Artwork Personal Growth Refusal for Fly MORE
Does Fair Trade in Brazil meet its objective of really increasing fairness and reaching the poor? Can innovation networks successfully be created to increase the access of family farms to cotton innovations and markets? MORE
The most interesting aspect of teaching Net-Map is that our participants bring their own cases to map, so that they can learn how to apply the method to their own problems. MORE
I am just back from work in Southern Africa. And while I was in a specific country with it’s specifically difficult political context, the question that keept us awake at night was rather universal: How can we influence without much formal authority? MORE
Just a bowl of spaghetti with toys on top? So, you have done the mapping, in front of you a messy bowl-of-spaghetti-with-toys-on-top-diagram and your participants or clients ask you: So what do we do now? What does this mean? MORE
With my colleagues Kerstin Tebbe and Bruno Laporte I just had an interesting design conversation for a session in which they want to help the members of a water basin commission better understand with whom they have knowledge exchange partnerships. MORE
Crow brings the daylight, by Ruth Meharg. My work often involves getting familiar with a new country and sector in a short amount of time, discussing challenges with many different stakeholders and together developing and implementing strategies for change. MORE
How do the different players of the art and culture scene connect? Are their networks conducive to a rich and lively sub-culture development or are there disconnects that hold individuals (and the scene as a whole) back? MORE
Disentangling complex influence networks, improving stakeholder engagement, developing personal networking strategies, fostering positive team dynamics or understanding why your technically sound plan failed dramatically: these are just a few things Net-Mappers do with pen, paper and toys. MORE
Someone who looks like you should not be invading our space (image by Cindy Faust). I just had an interesting conversation with a friend about a very specific kind of uncomfortable interaction we experience as we move forward in our career and become more successful. MORE
(Veleripieris circle by Kenneth Myers). The map is not the territory. A map in the scale 1:1 would be useless – and cover the whole area that it intends to depict. In each map, you have to choose what story you want to tell. MORE
Last week I talked with my colleagues from the IFC , Sumit Manchanda and Anja Robakowski-Van Stralen , and Amit Nag (Net-Map facilitator) who have used Net-Map to facilitate their political economy analysis in setting up Public Private Dialogues in developing countries. MORE
How do the networks of black and white, male and female job-seekers differ? And: Does that makes some of them more successful than others in finding a job? MORE
Wouldn’t it be great if Net-Mappers from all over the world could share their experience, learn from each other, build a common knowledge-base and just hang out and enjoy each other’s company? MORE
Understand how people and their networks influence your (project) success – learn Net – Map! You are curious about network analysis but what you read about it sounds extremely technical, confusing and abstract? MORE
Is it as easy as child’s play? image by [link] ). I always try to speak about my work in a way that everyone can understand me – whether they are experts in my field or not. MORE
When dealing with the challenges of a country like Ethiopia, focusing just on water, or food, or energy is a tall order already. Given how one influences the other, it is, however, not focus which is needed but integration – of issues and also of those people dealing with them. MORE
I could spend days surfing the 777 different projects that the visualcomplexity project has gathered, some of them amaze me because of what they are about, more of them just because they are so beautiful. Some examples, just to get you started. MORE
(picture copyright by DFID on flickr). In a recently published paper about knowledge management in family planning in Ethiopa, Sarah Harlan (of Johns Hopkins ) et al. dig deep into the knowledge networks that connect the national and local government agencies with women and men on the ground. MORE
If you allow the wind to lift you up, you can fly (picture by Dan Markeye). I have been exploring the power of Net-Map for personal development and happiness for a few years now. MORE
A Net-Map study on formal and informal water governance in Vietnam , by Nadine Reis and Peter P. MORE
Want to eat an elephant? Take it one bite at a time (picture copyright by Phil and Pam on flickr). Have grand New Year’s resolutions? Good for you. Had grand New Year’s resolutions last year too and abandonned them mid-January? Don’t beat yourself up, because you are not alone. MORE
And she said WHAT? Working in an international organization, I see that we have a strange mixed relationship to our awareness of cultural differences. We think about them when we go to the field, especially if the field is an actual field (as in “rural”). MORE
Farmers in Ethiopia (picture credit Stevie Mann, ILRI). … and what role their formal and informal networks play in this. Let me share some of the work my former colleagues at IFPRI have been doing with Net-Map. MORE
Saving cost and reducing travel are a big thing at the World Bank at the moment – as in many organizations. MORE
By relating their own experience to prototypical network patterns, groups can get a deeper understanding of how they work together (or not) and what the opportunities and challenges of each of the different patterns of self-organization are. MORE
picture by Donald Zolan (and, by the way, not my child) [link]. Everything. Keith McCandles of Liberating Structures asked me this question when I shared my instructions for the use of network pattern cards with him. MORE
Two weeks ago I was in a Net-Map session where one group insisted that they had no conflict likes to draw. MORE
At our trainings you dive into using Net-Map in your own context pretty quickly. Last fall one of our participants actually took a break from the map he was drawing because it made him realize that he had to make a few phone calls to some key influencers that he had not been quite aware of. MORE
Albert O. Hirschman. MORE
Let me start by saying: I don’t like conflict. I am actually pretty good at diffusing unnecessary conflict and running away from necessary conflict. except sometimes, when I turn around in mid-running, and explode, but that is a different story). I don’t even like talking about conflict. MORE
If you are one of those eternal procrastinators (yes, you know who you are) and were thinking about joining us for the Net-Map training in August , this is your last gentle nudge. Two spots remaining, then our group is complete. MORE
(Picture by Alan Cleaver on flickr). How do you deal with situations you are not 100% comfortable with? How do you approach your work and your family life when it gets stressful? Are you quick to blame others for whatever goes wrong? MORE
This paper uses Net-Map for qualitative data collection on the use of agricultural extension in Ethiopia, especially understanding the role of women (authors: Tewodaj Mogues, Marc J. Cohen, Regina Birner, Mamusha Lemma, Josee Randriamamonjy, Fanaye Tadesse and Zelekawork Paulos). MORE
Mammoth or no Mammoth – Out caveman ancestors faced simple questions with simple answers. In this case the answer is: Mammoth. This morning on Radio France Internationale I listened to a story on child abuse by catholic priests in Canada. MORE
First time-use of a Net-Map-procedure in a culture development process. The recently published study on behalf of the Institute for Cultural Policy. offers new ways for the coordination of action for the pilot region in South. Thuringia (central Germany). Patrick S. Föhl & Robert Peper. MORE
Crisscross by Androwilli (on flickr). I have often Imagined that glances. survive the act of seeing. as if they were poles, measuring rods, lances. thrown in a battle. Then I think that in a room. one has just left. those same lines must stay behind. sometimes suspended there and crisscrossed. MORE
Picture by junussyndicate on deviantART. Today, at day one of our Net-Map training here in DC, participants spend the afternoon mapping out cases from their own experience. And I witnessed the fastest move from a Net-Map to action I have ever seen. MORE
Net-Map Toolbox
JUNE 30, 2017
Let me start by saying: I don’t like conflict. I am actually pretty good at diffusing unnecessary conflict and running away from necessary conflict. except sometimes, when I turn around in mid-running, and explode, but that is a different story). I don’t even like talking about conflict.
Net-Map Toolbox
MARCH 22, 2016
How do the networks of black and white, male and female job-seekers differ? And: Does that makes some of them more successful than others in finding a job?
Net-Map Toolbox
FEBRUARY 13, 2016
Disentangling complex influence networks, improving stakeholder engagement, developing personal networking strategies, fostering positive team dynamics or understanding why your technically sound plan failed dramatically: these are just a few things Net-Mappers do with pen, paper and toys.
Net-Map Toolbox
JANUARY 24, 2017
I am just back from work in Southern Africa. And while I was in a specific country with it’s specifically difficult political context, the question that keept us awake at night was rather universal: How can we influence without much formal authority?
Net-Map Toolbox
JULY 10, 2015
picture by Donald Zolan (and, by the way, not my child) [link]. Everything. Keith McCandles of Liberating Structures asked me this question when I shared my instructions for the use of network pattern cards with him.
Net-Map Toolbox
JULY 26, 2016
This paper uses Net-Map for qualitative data collection on the use of agricultural extension in Ethiopia, especially understanding the role of women (authors: Tewodaj Mogues, Marc J. Cohen, Regina Birner, Mamusha Lemma, Josee Randriamamonjy, Fanaye Tadesse and Zelekawork Paulos).
Net-Map Toolbox
JUNE 26, 2016
Two weeks ago I was in a Net-Map session where one group insisted that they had no conflict likes to draw.
Net-Map Toolbox
JANUARY 7, 2016
Just a bowl of spaghetti with toys on top? So, you have done the mapping, in front of you a messy bowl-of-spaghetti-with-toys-on-top-diagram and your participants or clients ask you: So what do we do now? What does this mean?
Net-Map Toolbox
DECEMBER 30, 2015
A Net-Map study on formal and informal water governance in Vietnam , by Nadine Reis and Peter P.
Net-Map Toolbox
DECEMBER 10, 2013
(Veleripieris circle by Kenneth Myers). The map is not the territory. A map in the scale 1:1 would be useless – and cover the whole area that it intends to depict. In each map, you have to choose what story you want to tell.
Net-Map Toolbox
OCTOBER 10, 2014
Farmers in Ethiopia (picture credit Stevie Mann, ILRI). … and what role their formal and informal networks play in this. Let me share some of the work my former colleagues at IFPRI have been doing with Net-Map.
Net-Map Toolbox
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
Crow brings the daylight, by Ruth Meharg. My work often involves getting familiar with a new country and sector in a short amount of time, discussing challenges with many different stakeholders and together developing and implementing strategies for change.
Net-Map Toolbox
JANUARY 12, 2016
With my colleagues Kerstin Tebbe and Bruno Laporte I just had an interesting design conversation for a session in which they want to help the members of a water basin commission better understand with whom they have knowledge exchange partnerships.
Net-Map Toolbox
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
I recently went on a mission to Cameroon, where one of my tasks was to facilitate a workshop with about 100 participants. Cameroon is a bilingual country – but that doesn’t mean all Cameroonians are bilingual.
Net-Map Toolbox
JUNE 24, 2015
By relating their own experience to prototypical network patterns, groups can get a deeper understanding of how they work together (or not) and what the opportunities and challenges of each of the different patterns of self-organization are.
Net-Map Toolbox
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
Does Fair Trade in Brazil meet its objective of really increasing fairness and reaching the poor? Can innovation networks successfully be created to increase the access of family farms to cotton innovations and markets?
Net-Map Toolbox
NOVEMBER 16, 2013
Crisscross by Androwilli (on flickr). I have often Imagined that glances. survive the act of seeing. as if they were poles, measuring rods, lances. thrown in a battle. Then I think that in a room. one has just left. those same lines must stay behind. sometimes suspended there and crisscrossed.
Net-Map Toolbox
MAY 25, 2014
At our trainings you dive into using Net-Map in your own context pretty quickly. Last fall one of our participants actually took a break from the map he was drawing because it made him realize that he had to make a few phone calls to some key influencers that he had not been quite aware of.
Net-Map Toolbox
AUGUST 3, 2015
When dealing with the challenges of a country like Ethiopia, focusing just on water, or food, or energy is a tall order already. Given how one influences the other, it is, however, not focus which is needed but integration – of issues and also of those people dealing with them.
Net-Map Toolbox
JANUARY 6, 2014
I cannot fly! I know that from experience! Change Management musings opportunities original Artwork personal development Uncategorized Caterpillar Change Musings New Year''s Resolution Original Artwork Personal Growth Refusal for Fly
Net-Map Toolbox
JULY 7, 2015
How do the different players of the art and culture scene connect? Are their networks conducive to a rich and lively sub-culture development or are there disconnects that hold individuals (and the scene as a whole) back?
Net-Map Toolbox
NOVEMBER 19, 2014
Wouldn’t it be great if Net-Mappers from all over the world could share their experience, learn from each other, build a common knowledge-base and just hang out and enjoy each other’s company?
Net-Map Toolbox
JULY 26, 2013
Mammoth or no Mammoth – Out caveman ancestors faced simple questions with simple answers. In this case the answer is: Mammoth. This morning on Radio France Internationale I listened to a story on child abuse by catholic priests in Canada.
Net-Map Toolbox
JANUARY 8, 2014
Want to eat an elephant? Take it one bite at a time (picture copyright by Phil and Pam on flickr). Have grand New Year’s resolutions? Good for you. Had grand New Year’s resolutions last year too and abandonned them mid-January? Don’t beat yourself up, because you are not alone.
Net-Map Toolbox
APRIL 21, 2015
Is it as easy as child’s play? image by [link] ). I always try to speak about my work in a way that everyone can understand me – whether they are experts in my field or not.
Net-Map Toolbox
MARCH 5, 2015
Someone who looks like you should not be invading our space (image by Cindy Faust). I just had an interesting conversation with a friend about a very specific kind of uncomfortable interaction we experience as we move forward in our career and become more successful.
Net-Map Toolbox
OCTOBER 24, 2013
The most interesting aspect of teaching Net-Map is that our participants bring their own cases to map, so that they can learn how to apply the method to their own problems.
Net-Map Toolbox
JULY 2, 2013
If you are one of those eternal procrastinators (yes, you know who you are) and were thinking about joining us for the Net-Map training in August , this is your last gentle nudge. Two spots remaining, then our group is complete.
Net-Map Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
(Picture by Alan Cleaver on flickr). How do you deal with situations you are not 100% comfortable with? How do you approach your work and your family life when it gets stressful? Are you quick to blame others for whatever goes wrong?
Net-Map Toolbox
JANUARY 29, 2015
Come summer and it is that time of the year to immerse into mapping your complex networks. The two day Net-Map workshop teaches you basic understanding of the method, with emphasis on learning by drawing your network.
Net-Map Toolbox
AUGUST 19, 2013
And she said WHAT? Working in an international organization, I see that we have a strange mixed relationship to our awareness of cultural differences. We think about them when we go to the field, especially if the field is an actual field (as in “rural”).
Net-Map Toolbox
DECEMBER 13, 2013
(picture copyright by DFID on flickr). In a recently published paper about knowledge management in family planning in Ethiopa, Sarah Harlan (of Johns Hopkins ) et al. dig deep into the knowledge networks that connect the national and local government agencies with women and men on the ground.
Net-Map Toolbox
MARCH 25, 2014
If you allow the wind to lift you up, you can fly (picture by Dan Markeye). I have been exploring the power of Net-Map for personal development and happiness for a few years now.
Net-Map Toolbox
OCTOBER 24, 2014
I could spend days surfing the 777 different projects that the visualcomplexity project has gathered, some of them amaze me because of what they are about, more of them just because they are so beautiful. Some examples, just to get you started.
Net-Map Toolbox
AUGUST 16, 2013
Picture by junussyndicate on deviantART. Today, at day one of our Net-Map training here in DC, participants spend the afternoon mapping out cases from their own experience. And I witnessed the fastest move from a Net-Map to action I have ever seen.
Net-Map Toolbox
AUGUST 29, 2014
Saving cost and reducing travel are a big thing at the World Bank at the moment – as in many organizations.
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