Gordon Ross 🇨🇦

@gordonr.ca

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VP & Partner, OXD: Vancouver-based digital services firm. I work with government to afford better citizen outcomes. 🇨🇦 Spem Successus Alit | success nourishes hope.

RFP for face painting services at the World Cup

Uh, what is this heggie-money stuff, exactly?

Picture of a book cover showing street signs. The book is the Cult of Efficiency by Janice Gross Stein

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service design is 10% design, 90% creating the conditions for service design to happen

No complex system, whether biological or social, can be understood without considering its history. Two similar systems placed in identical conditions may respond in vastly different ways if they have different histories. To be more precise, the history of a system is not merely important in the understanding of the system, it co-determines the structure of the system.

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