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SIGNIFICANT LINKS OF LOGO VISUAL THINKING (LVT) Featured
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This Compendium places LVT in context by documenting its links and fit with other theories and methods relevant to the understanding and facilitation of creativity, complexity, knowledge capture, meaning and sense making.
Comparative Study - Generic Themes Summary
In this series Anthony Blake has positioned eight disciplines in their relationship to LVT. In making comparisons we come to see different methods as alternative paths up the same mountain, each with its advantages. ...
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Comparative Study part 9 - Social Dreaming
The Social Dreaming Matrix was developed by Gordon Lawrence. He discovered – or rediscovered – that dreams could be dealt with as a source of information on the collective situation of a set of people and not merely as an indi ...
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Comparative Study part 8 - Dialogue
Dialogue is the most open-ended of the methods under consideration [in the comparative study as a whole]. There is no leader, no set process, no theme or agenda and no one source of MMs (molecules of meaning – term used in LVT). Th ...
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Comparative Study part 7 - Systematics
The discipline of systematics as a method of thinking was developed by the philosopher and educationalist John Bennett about fifty years ago. It is the study of multi-term systems, which distinguishes it from most systems thinking. ...
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Comparative Study part 6 - Constellations
The method of Constellations (cf. The Nowhere Foundation) derives from the work of Bert Hellinger on family systems.
Constellations appears in our comparative grid as ‘innovation in natural systems’, associated with emer ...
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Comparative Study part 5 - TRIZ
There are some features of TRIZ that shed light on LVT, in particular the concept of Ideality.
One of the main things to note is that the more psychological and imaginative approach of the Russians (who involved practit ...
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Comparative Study part 4 - Cynefin
Cynefin is a Welsh word only roughly to be translated as ‘place’. It is used by David Snowden and associates to signify social complexity in general and contextual complexity in particular.
Cynefin is concerned with how ...
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Comparative Study part 3 - Democs
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) has produced a game to instruct in and enhance democratic process. The game is a method of informed discussion. It uses prepared material put onto cards which, in LVT parlance, are ‘molecules of meani ...
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Comparative Study part 2 - Goldratt
In this part, we take a look at Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints.
The idea of a critical constraint is that in any knowable process, there will be one (or only a few) regions which significantly affect the whole process. Wh ...
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Comparative Study part 1 - LVT
THE ECOLOGICAL PLACE OF LVT IN A NETWORK OF METHODS
A comparative study by Anthony Blake, Director of Research, CMC
Eight methods are compared with Logovisual Technology to elicit common and distinctive features. The aim ...
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Thinking Together
This paper has been written with the collaboration of the Centre for Management Creativity and its CEO John Varney, as a contribution to the development of LVT.
I explore the implications of what it means to ‘think together’ ...
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