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Breaking the bubble: Understanding through collective insight

In today's world, we find ourselves working in isolation more than ever. We consume information in linear snippets, often missing the broader picture. Our data quickly becomes outdated, and rather than gaining a multidimensional understanding, we are left with a sense of confusion or misplaced certainty. This slows down innovation and progress, leaving us trapped in echo chambers rather than fostering true comprehension.

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The innovation edge: Where perspectives converge

Hunome helps to innovate thanks to human collectiveness. It enables organizations to connect the dots across disciplines, mindsets, and domains, Hunome acts as a catalyst for transformative innovation. It empowers businesses to uncover unexpected patterns, reimagine their value propositions, and create solutions that would otherwise remain undiscovered

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When human ingenuity meets AI, unlocking enterprise innovation

This article introduces Hunome, a platform that enhances AI by adding human-centered "sensemaking" to enterprise decision-making. While AI processes vast amounts of data, it lacks contextual understanding and human perspective needed for strategic decisions. Hunome bridges this gap by integrating human knowledge, intuition, and cultural context with AI insights, transforming fragmented data into actionable understanding.

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Shared understanding in an age of rapid change and confusion

We're drowning in knowledge, yet struggling to solve complex challenges. Expertise is locked in silos, hindering our ability to see the bigger picture. Tim argues for shared understanding built through the interactions of diverse perspectives. This bridges the gap, empowering informed decisions, fostering innovation, and building resilience in a rapidly changing world.

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The impending fertility shock: why we're having fewer kids

This article examines global population decline through Hunome's collective sensemaking platform, where diverse participants explored the complex factors behind falling birth rates in developed nations. Led by foresight specialist Adam Sharpe, the group identified nine key drivers including shifting social priorities away from traditional family obligations, economic barriers making children unaffordable, women's increased education and career focus, environmental toxins potentially harming fertility, and growing eco-anxiety about bringing children into an uncertain world.

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3 proven tips for effective decision-making

This article discusses how to make better decisions among the 35,000 choices we face daily, moving beyond basic decision-making frameworks to more impactful approaches. The author provides three key tips: delve deeper to understand the full scope and interconnected systems behind an issue, embrace different viewpoints to see the bigger picture and anticipate how your perspective might evolve, and build networks that help you adapt quickly when unexpected factors emerge.

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Unlocking Multidimensional Thinking: 5 Key Advantages

This article explores the challenges of navigating complex information and making confident decisions in our knowledge-saturated world, proposing multidimensional thinking as the solution. Using the parable of blind men describing an elephant from their limited perspectives, the author argues that embracing diverse viewpoints creates more complete understanding than relying on single sources or experts. The piece outlines five benefits of multidimensional thinking: it helps identify bias and misinformation, breaks down knowledge silos, fosters empathy across different perspectives, promotes self-reflection about our own assumptions, and enables more creative and sustainable decision-making.

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SparkMaps: a way to turn your perspectives into power

This brief article explains how to create a SparkMap on Hunome's platform, describing it as a tool for exploring complex themes and connecting fragmented thoughts. The process involves six steps: choosing a focus area that genuinely interests you, establishing a central idea or hypothesis, branching out into subtopics and related concepts, connecting seemingly unrelated ideas, regularly reviewing and refining the map, and finally inviting others to contribute their perspectives. Building SparkMaps solo helps develop reasoning skills and creates a tangible representation of your thinking, while also serving as a foundation for collaborative, multidimensional understanding when shared with others.

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Why does humanness in decision-making matter?

This article traces the evolution of human-centered decision-making through three phases, arguing that understanding "humanness" remains crucial even in our AI-driven era. It begins with Decision-making 1.0 (traditional market research like focus groups), noting limitations such as short-term focus, isolated methods, and susceptibility to echo chambers that stifle innovation. Decision-making 2.0 introduced technology and AI to improve connections and streamline processes, but the author argues that algorithms cannot handle non-existent information, exceptions to rules, or unexpected anomalies. Decision-making 3.0 emphasizes that human ingenuity creates discontinuities and envisions possibilities beyond past data, making our "shared humanness" essential for better choices despite the complexity it introduces.

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Nonlinear Thinking: the future of understanding

This article argues for a shift from linear to nonlinear thinking to better navigate our rapidly changing, interconnected world. It explains that nonlinear thinking is essential for understanding complex systems where small changes can have disproportionate effects, recognizing global interconnectedness and ripple effects, and adapting to unprecedented uncertainty from technological advances and global crises.

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What does the future of humanity look like?

This article identifies societal polarization as a "wicked problem"—complex social issues that are difficult to solve due to incomplete knowledge, numerous stakeholders, and interconnected nature with other problems. The author argues that social media's advertising model has deepened societal divisions, creating echo chambers where different viewpoints become sources of hostility rather than understanding. Drawing on design theorist Richard Buchanan's work, the piece suggests that wicked problems like polarization, climate change, and inequality require systems thinking combined with collaborative, iterative approaches that understand both big picture and contextual details.

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How diverse perspectives fuel human ingenuity

This article discusses the concept of perspectives and human ingenuity, referencing political scientist Thomas Homer-Dixon's "ingenuity gap" theory—the idea that as we solve problems, new and more complex issues emerge that outpace our ability to address them. The piece explains how human perspectives are formed through combining emotional responses, personal experiences, sensory feedback, and input from others and the environment. It describes how humans can understand and adopt other people's perspectives, which enhances collective problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

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The future of work. What’s next?

This article announces a SparkMap project titled "The Future of Work – What's Next?" that examines the evolving workplace landscape characterized by flexibility, adaptability, and increased technology integration. The project explores shifts away from traditional 9-5 office jobs toward remote work and automation, examining various perspectives on these changes and their impacts. Led by Nicky Dries, who heads the Future of Work Lab at KU Leuven's Faculty of Economics, the SparkMap aims to interconnect global examples, innovative practices, and experiences with concepts like the gig economy and zero-hour contracts. The lab focuses on social imaginaries for the future and developing insights for tomorrow's workforce.

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A Human-Aware way of leading in innovation and decision-making

This article argues that leaders should balance data-driven decision-making with understanding human factors affecting customers, employees, and communities. It contrasts "leading with people" versus "leading with data," suggesting that while metrics like productivity and revenue are readily available and useful, they miss crucial human motivations and needs. The piece uses examples like furniture sales data (showing increased sales but missing customer preference for sustainable materials) and Dan Price's decision to implement a $70,000 minimum wage at Gravity Payments after learning about employee financial struggles. The article claims that human-aware leadership leads to better employee motivation, customer engagement, and business outcomes, recommending that leaders actively seek diverse perspectives and look beyond numerical data to understand the people their decisions impact.

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How can companies survive unexpected events?

This article discusses applying human-centered design principles to help businesses build resilience during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. It outlines four core principles: understanding the fundamental problem rather than just symptoms (using the example of remote work solutions that address broader business continuity rather than just providing laptops), focusing on all impacted people by understanding their needs and involving them in solution development, considering entire systems rather than isolated components (illustrated by chatbot implementation that might solve wait times but create misdirected queries), and iterating quickly through prototyping and testing. The piece references examples like Zoom's rapid scaling and Airbnb's pivot to homestays, emphasizing that companies following human-centered approaches during uncertain times should shift perspective from what's right for the company to what's right for the people surrounding it.

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Human-centricity is hitting society in a huge way – WebSummit

This article reports on WebSummit's focus on human-centricity in business, featuring quotes from executives at major companies like IKEA, Microsoft, and Lush who emphasized putting humanity at the center of their operations. The piece highlights how leaders discussed moving beyond traditional sustainability goals toward actively improving human conditions, shifting from "know-it-all" to "learn-it-all" cultures, and understanding stakeholders as people rather than just data points. The article includes commentary from Sir Ridley Scott about the urgent need for intervention in humanity's crisis state and digital technologies' role in addressing sustainability goals. The piece frames human-centricity as a movement that enables companies to understand real problems people face and offer solutions with broader social impact beyond traditional sales funnel approaches.

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