The Power of Virtual Distance, 2nd Edition

Appendix 3Expanded List of Project Descriptions

In the Introduction we described a way to look at analytics through the lens of Human Oriented Meaningful Experience (HOME) – see Figure C.1.

As pointed out earlier, as a society, we've become obsessed with “data and analytics” to the point where we often forget that the data reflect us as people and not just some abstract set of numbers that are sometimes hard to understand and reflect upon. However, it's important to understand, too, that data that's reported empirically using quantifiable metrics, while very important, is not the only way to understand ourselves and our world as human beings.

As we've discussed at length in many of the chapters in this book, much of what we know about the world, we know based on our experiences, which then become understood by us as tacit knowledge: things we know just because we know them. This knowledge cannot be “counted,” because it is “soul-based”; it is alive and lives within us. And often, it's this part of us that carries the most important knowledge about our work, our lives, and our world.

FIGURE C.1 Human Oriented Meaningful Experience HOME Framework.

Therefore we created HOME as a way for the reader to put themselves into the picture as a person, triangulating on three main aspects of our human experience:

1. The “Where”
2. The “When,” and
3. The “What”

of our work and lives.

This framework ...