This time line forms part of a series i am collating to illustrate the influences that helped formulate the discipline of graphic facilitation and recording today.My inspirations are far and wide, and i will try my utmost to list and link to all that has inspired me on my journey of graphic facilitation. u can follow my blog - www.visualwhat101.blogspot.com
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Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation.
Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition.
Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you're ready to change the rules, you belong to "the business model generation!"
http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/
Im a Kaospilot, a school in Denmark,described as a Social designer education , we the student have the opportunity to influence the direction of our learnings ----- I have taken a very big liking into the world of grphic recording and facilitating, in the aim of using the skills to lead Graphic Processes for Start-Ups in the community,arts and culture sectors.
www.visualwhat101.blogspot.com
A Whole New Mind (ISBN-10: 1594481717) first published by Penguin Group Inc, NY in 2005 he challenges the traditional perspective that left brain thinking is dominant. The author asserts that the information age, characterized predominantly by L-Directed or left brain thinking is being replaced by the new age of what he calls high concept and touch led by right brain thinking. To illustrate this point, the book is well researched and in a compelling narrative guides the reader through a variety of research, examples and tales.
Read more: http://socialsciencebooks.suite101.com/article.cfm/book_review_a_whole_new_mind#ixzz0WDXaBL5b
http://www.danpink.com/
The book celebrates escapes from the flatlands of both paper and computer screen, showing superb displays of high-dimensional complex data. The most design-oriented of Edward Tufte's books, Envisioning Information shows maps, charts, scientific presentations, diagrams, computer interfaces, statistical graphics and tables, stereo photographs, guidebooks, courtroom exhibits, timetables, use of color, a pop-up, and many other wonderful displays of information. The book provides practical advice about how to explain complex material by visual means, with extraordinary examples to illustrate the fundamental principles of information displays. Topics include escaping flatland, color and information, micro/macro designs, layering and separation, small multiples, and narratives.
Face-to-face communication is, generally speaking, richer in content than written text, for the latter is devoid of the dimensions of body language, facial expression, gesture, and intonation. Face-to-face communication is also richer in content than verbal communication lacking visual support, such as a telephone conversation. The background assumption of the planned research is that computer graphics could alleviate these deficiencies.
Information anxiety: What to do when information doesn't tell you what you need to know
R S Wurman, 1990 - Bantam Books
http://www.wurman.com/rsw/
Hypertext
is "a form of organizing text in computers that permits the linking of any place in text (or other media) to any other place and the rapid retrieval of information by following trails of these associative links." (Horn, 1989)
"To understand the text of a book, the reader must try to comprehend the ego and intentions of the author. In hypertext, the roles are reversed, and this is the essential intellectual challenge for the authors. The logic and organization is created by the user as he or she reads and interacts with the database." (Staninger 1994, p.51)
"... we can say that hypertext was conceived in 1945, born in the 1960s, and slowly nurtured in the 1970s, and finally entered the real world in the 1980s with an especially rapid growth after 1985, culminating in a fully established field during 1989." (Nielsen, 1990, p.41)
Hypertext is a non-sequential form of composing and writing. It therefore provides choices for the reader as to how to navigate such text. While the organization of regular, sequential text may be based on a multitude of criteria and dimensions, the final product freezes the presentation into a single, sequential chain of paragraphs and chapters. The author is in charge, the reader either accepts this "first-to-last-page" organization, or has to resort to an ad-hoc "hyper-reading" style by jumping from page to page along a string tailored with the help of table of contents, indices, previous notes and luck.
http://www.stanford.edu/~rhorn/
More than 10 years ago, when "Mapping Inner Space" was first published, a few teachers were using this creative technique and teaching it to their students. Today mapping is widely used in schools, universities, and the corporate world, as well. This second edition of the book explores a variety of mapping styles and also takes a fresh look at the process of learning. The book presents a variety of maps, beginning with standardized Mind Maps and then numerous freeform variations, called "Visual Maps" or "Mindscapes." It is organized so that the Mind Mapping technique and how it can be used in the home, school, or business can be quickly learned. Most pages of text in the book have a corresponding visual map (usually in color) on the opposite page. Following a Foreword (Margaret J. Wheatley) and a Preface, the book is divided into these chapters: Introduction: Welcome to the New "Mapping Inner Space"; (1) Learning to Mind Map; (2) Applications; (3) Finding and Creating Symbols; (4) Mapping with Young Students; (5) Mapping with Older Students and Adults; (6) Mapping in Business and Community Settings; (7) Discovering Our Inner Capacities; and (8) Anything Goes!
Although schools typically emphasize the development of language and logical skills, research on learning (Gardner, 1983, 1993) suggests humans possess at least seven types of intelligence, each to varying degrees. One person may exhibit exceptional talent for hearing and reproducing music (musical intelligence), while another may be particularly sensitive to the moods and motivations of others (interpersonal intelligence). To access students' prior knowledge, abilities and skills, teachers should use a variety of approaches to both instruction and assessment. (Gardner, 1993; Viadero, 1994)
Christopher Alexander coined the term "PatternLanguage" to emphasize his belief that people had an innate ability for design that paralleled their ability to speak.
there is three books,
A pattern language
by: C. Alexander, S. Ishikawa, M. Silverstein
In A Pattern Language (1977)
A set of patterns becomes a pattern language when each of its patterns, once solved, leads to more patterns that should then be considered
http://www.patternlanguage.com
How to Make Meetings Work . Doyle & Strauss cover a meeting purpose, ground rules, types of meetings, agenda, roles, including like leader, scribe, and facilitator. It covers the planning, conduct, and closure phases of a meeting. It also covers and concept I have not seen covered by any other authors what the authors call the " two headed monster" of the leader also trying to be meeting facilitator and the conflict between the decisions and the meeting process. It is a easy to read book with common sense concepts and approaches and does a real good job of covering vast majority of the topic. It suggest starting on time and ending on time or early with the purpose to be a efficient and effective meeting by involving the participants in active roles and by clearly planning, facilitating, and prioritizing.
http://www.powells.com/biblio/0515090484?&PID=30561
This book deals with visual thinking and its experiences with the thought and thinking process Visual thinking is composed of three activities: idea-sketching, seeing, and imagining. This book suggests ways that people whose usual way of thinking is in words can turn to a new mode of thinking; preparations for it, including materials, environmental conditions, and an inner state of relaxed awareness; seeing; imagining; and idea-sketching (the faculty of visual thinking that gives birth to ideas). Many activities are included.
The effort of visual thinking needed to read such a pattern is correspondingly greater and subtler. Abstract patterns in visual art From these beginnings, ...
http://books.google.dk/books?id=DWmtB9szhFsC&pg=PA269&lpg=PA269&dq=Visual+Thinking+-rudolph+Arnheim&source=bl&ots=gdexI9z3XR&sig=lQUs0iFJiB-5epzdqaSdeWF4qmE#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Lateral thinking is a term coined by Edward de Bono, for the solution of problems through an indirect and creative approach. Lateral thinking is about reasoning that is not immediately obvious and about ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.
The term first appeared in the title of de Bono's book New Think: The Use of Lateral Thinking, published in the year1967.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking
Abstract
The literature (since 1963) relevant to the theoretical framework of personality and organization is reviewed to ascertain the degree to which parts of the theory are confirmed and disconfirmed. It is also suggested that organizational theory requires a model of man because without it the theory could become limited to the status quo.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2392060
L Bertalanffy - The British Journal for the Philosophy of science, 1950 - Br Soc Philosophy Sci
As we survey the evolution of modern science, we find the remarkable phenomenon
that similar general conceptions and viewpoints have evolved independently in
the various branches of science, and to begin with these may be indicated ..
http://bjps.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/I/2/134
Peter F Drucker has contributed to The Future of Industrial Man as an author. Peter F. Drucker is considered the most influential management thinker ever. The author of more than twenty-five books, his ideas have had an enormous impact on shaping the modern corporation. Drucker passed away in 2005.
http://www.infibeam.com/Books/info/Drucker/The-Future-of-Industrial-Man/1560006234.html
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