The blog software platform was changed around on 1 May.\u00a0 No wonder I did not hear back from the team on the day before.\u00a0 Live now.<\/p>\n
I attended the EAG meeting and got a very grounding introduction to the work of Engagement.\u00a0 I am to be involved in writing up case studies \u2013 Impact Case Studies \u2013 as a writer helper for Lorraine Smith. \u00a0That will be nice and pressured I am sure, since the deadline is the end of May.\u00a0 Can\u2019t spend all my time on that but, it will be good to get to know what people are involved with.<\/p>\n
Alliances or heterarchies? I had a discussion with Tyrone that went through philosophical territory.\u00a0 Changing how companies are run – it is about being in touch with.<\/p>\n
Pipelines or corridors.\u00a0 To be heard<\/strong> in a particular culture or organisation or space one must know the power structure, the circuit diagram and use the technologies, the language and the tools of the organisation.\u00a0 To change that organisation one must probably first be heard.\u00a0 I am probably at the first stage of acquiring the knowledge about this organisation.\u00a0 Not that I want to change it (though an organisation that does not change or innovate is probably dead and I am here therefore I will change it by being here, I may possibly not direct that change though).<\/p>\n Games developers working with medicine.\u00a0 Tyrone mentioned collaboration between games developers using the wii to both run a remediation program as well as, by sensing the patient\u2019s positions, allowing the physiotherapist at a remote location to check that the patient was doing the movements correctly.<\/p>\n Is anything like this being done at Newcastle?\u00a0 Should I look into it i.e. it in medicine is not only apps.\u00a0 Moments later.\u00a0 And the answer is yes.\u00a0 There is collaboration between the http:\/\/research.ncl.ac.uk\/game\/<\/a> the Computing Sciences and Limbs Alive as well as CCP games.\u00a0 What about other games development companies \u2013 especially those in the North East?<\/p>\n Do the words strategy and strategic plan encourage fight or flight?\u00a0 It has come to mean thorough and long ranging but does it still hold onto any of its martial origins?\u00a0 I can\u2019t currently imagine a better word.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Strategy vs. tactics<\/p>\n Or in the disease sphere the equivalent would be\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chronic vs. acute<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Think global and act local<\/p>\n What does square the circle really mean?\u00a0 I always have this picture of an elastic band being pulled outward to form the corner of the square or, as we determined this morning over breakfast, a four sided polygon.\u00a0 But after squaring, and when I let go of the eastic band, does the square circle itself again.<\/p>\n James says that students are not coming forward for some sorts of placements and this seems like a blank space almost like where I have been employed.\u00a0 Even though there are massive benefits for doing placements \u2013 double your chances of getting a first, the placements at BAE were to be practically guaranteed graduate level jobs when they graduated… students would rather have a summer holiday than spend 12 weeks working.\u00a0 What can be done that is not already being done? After much discussion Tyrone said that, at a previous university they had solved the problem by selecting students, who they thought were suitable candidates, and sending them letters from the dean saying that they had been selected to apply for the placement.\u00a0 Better than my compulsory placement at the railway workshops in the summer holidays after my first year of engineering.<\/p>\n Seeding information \u2013 I must read up on Nudge.\u00a0 More and more it seems like common sense, not manipulation.\u00a0 Maybe just reminders of good practice.<\/p>\n I would love to be able to remember better, type faster, and maybe facilitate meetings in a standard fashion if such a thing exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The blog software platform was changed around on 1 May.\u00a0 No wonder I did not hear back from the team on the day before.\u00a0 Live now. I attended the EAG meeting and got a very grounding introduction to the work of Engagement.\u00a0 I am to be involved in writing up case studies \u2013 Impact Case … Continue reading Day 3: Strategy vs Tactics<\/span>