This is an overview of just some of the stories contained in No Straight Lines

1. Stories of Transformation
in No Straight Lines
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2. Insanely ambitious
Alan’s perspective as someone In short, it takes a systems
who has worked with many approach, or general equilibrium
businesses over the years as we might describe it in
provides interesting examples economics. Moore presents the
of successful change to work on current array of economic and
the basis of more (financially, social problems as a design
socially, environmentally) challenge, where what is being
sustainable principles. redesigned is the organisation
of society as a whole.
Insanely ambitious, but I rather
like that.
Diane Coyle, economist, author of The Economics of Enough
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3. ‘Anyone worried about Alan Moore has
where business is going captured what is
in today’s chaotic world happening, but more
– and everyone importantly
concerned with where it provides prescriptions
should be going – must for what individuals,
read No Straight Lines. companies, and society
should do about it to
create a better world’. Jo Pine, Co-author,
The Experience
Economy and Infinite
Possibility.
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4. The story of a System Upgrade
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5. to the Human-OS
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6. the story of
I + We = why?
How we make context and meaning, through the webs of relationships and how we
derive value from those relationships and connections are central to human beings.
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7. shape
The story of how our
networked world
with its new Human
OS is changing the
shape of our
post industrial
future.
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8. Stories of our post industrial future
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9. The story of Yeo Valley Farms.
From industrial farming to
working with nature for a more
sustainable and profitable future.
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10. The story of how communications
technology is helping Indian farmers
live a more sustainable and resilient
life. The story of the e-choupal.
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11. The story of new manufacturing capability
The story of new manufacturing capability

12. The story of new manufacturing capability
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13. The story of rapidly building a crisis management platform
through open innovation, mashups and open source software.
The story of new organizational capability.
The NGO of the future.
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14. The story of creating better hospitals
where people recover from surgery quicker
with the use of fewer drugs.
Designing for the needs of
humanity not utility
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The story of how to create a
service to better manage
people’s chronic health care.
Reducing; wrong diagnosis, over
prescription of drugs, clogging
up hospitals and specialist time.
And, without costing the earth.

16. The story of the power of
participatory cultures
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17. The story of the incredible
possibilities of a mobile society
and the six immutable laws of
mobile business
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18. The story of the
exciting possibilities
to learning in a
networked world.
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The story of how cities and civic space can
function more cooperatively and effectively.
The story how to design for sustainable and
resilient civic space.

20. The story of creating learning spaces for people to
thrive in. The story of Westminster academy.
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21. The story of systemic change of the Nova Scotia
health system. A human story of transformation
through participatory leadership.
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22. The story of systems design in business.
The story of the axeness of an axe
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23. The story of how do we get 10% of
UK’s population (6m+) who do not
have any access to credit or a bank
account access to a bank designed
for them? Meaning no more
loansharking, criminal rates of
interest, locking 6m into poverty.
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24. The story of democratising
financial capital
Surface signals
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25. The story of
the need for
well designed
innovation
eco-systems
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26. The story of a new literacy to describe
how to hack the future
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27. For the collective good
‘Alan Moore is a visionary, Henry Jenkins,
someone who takes concepts from Author Convergence Culture:
many sources and finds the Where Old and New Media Collide.
previously hidden relationship
between them. Provost Professor of Communication,
Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, USC
He has a firm grasp of the changes Annenberg School for Communication
which are reshaping our world,
always pointing towards a more
participatory, cooperative,
reciprocal model of what our
society might look like’.
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28. Hey there’s a hell of great
universe next door – lets go!
e.e. cummings
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non-linear world
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