Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Concept maps


I designed this "map" of the "roots" of what ISPI calls "performance improvement" back in 2012 for a Conference. 

My intention was (and is) to show the diverse disciplines and contributions involved in improving social, organizational and individual performance. 

I would expand today several of those branches with what we have been working on in the City Doctors program since 2009. Cities are perfect "labs" to see how all the different disciplines interact and connect.

Here's an example from our Barcelona City Doctors Global Forum 2018. 

It shows how different departments actions cancel out each other in a small park in Pyla, Cyprus (below, left).The solar panel (Cyprus has one of the highest power costs in Europe) was placed under a palm tree shade -to protect it from the sun?- , the sidewalk built around the palm -forcing pedestrians to walk on the street-. 


 The diagram on the right side shows how the elements could be organized with a user-centered model such as that of City Doctors. 

A different concept -in terms of point of view and focus- follows:



The map was published in my 2012 Performance Improvement Journal article titled Beyond Human Performance Technology (HPT)

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