Michael Cheveldave

NuOptiks Consulting

New! Participatory Project: Making Sense of Users

Facilitated by Michael Cheveldave, NuOptiks Consulting

This conference-within-a-conference offers the first 20 volunteers the opportunity to experience a novel technique for gaining a cognitive edge in their own enterprise. Just share your stories and review other stories in this interactive narrative disclosure and review session that will result in the development of archetypal content users. The results of this group’s work will be used to inform the BSEC audience at the main meeting’s closing session. Space is limited to 20. Sign up for free when you register for the conference.

What are your perceptions of your users and what are the themes and values that emerge from your perceptions embedded in stories (your's and other's) about user experiences?  This workshop will apply complex facilitation methods developed by Cognitive Edge to unearth the hidden perceptions of eContent providers of their end users.  Should we be concerned?  Do we have any biased or skewed perceptions of our users?  At the end of the workshop on Sunday we will have some answers.  Also on Tuesday afternoon a final presentation to the broader BSEC audience will reveal our findings with further insights from a complexity informed perspective.

You can email Michael with any questions here.

BIOGRAPHY

Michael Cheveldave is the founder of NuOptiks Consulting, based in Castlegar, BC, Canada. NuOptiks Consulting applies sense-making and complexity theory to assist management teams in making better decisions and forming sustainable strategies for complex challenges. Prior to starting NuOptiks, Michael was part of a founding team of a technology startup company taking lead roles in finance, business development, and intellectual property management.  Michael is an accredited Cognitive Edge practitioner and the lead trainer for Cognitive Edge theory and methods in Canada. 

Michael has experience in the following Cognitive Edge facilitation and workshop methods: Model Creation by Social Construction; The future backwards; Nodal networks and new forms of organisation; Dynamics; Managing complexity by experiment; Archetype Creation; Ritual Dissent; Anecdote Circles; Population sampling; Getting ready for SMI database; and Information / DP mapping.

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