Category: Cynefin
28
Oct
Cynefin course
Two upcoming courses that I'd highly recommend – and not just because I'm helping teach them these days. I've recommended the Cognitive Edge courses for years, but this year has seen a major refresh of the content and approach to the material. It's a real combination of solid theory, exercises and practical examples – all […]
16
Apr
Upcoming courses – Atlanta and London
The Cognitive Edge trainings are being re-configured into modular courses – in May, I’ll be working with Dave Snowden on the first London rollout of the new four-day Cynefin course. … I’ve raved about Cognitive Edge courses since I first went on one in 2005 – if you’re in communications, influence, operational roles, organisational development and strategic planning, these courses are essential to staying ahead and working in the highly uncertain environments we see all around us.
31
Mar
Business approaches for “complex” problems
With Andrew Moore at DAV Management, I've written a piece recently: "New approaches to 'big' problems". It's a business piece talking about how new complexity-based approaches can offer major benefits in terms of better insights, reduced costs and greater customer loyalty over the traditional approaches to the problems. In particular, we talk about: using customer […]
12
Jan
Rules should define the space, not fill it
John Kay's column in the Financial Times today chimes with a quote that struck me recently: "Rules are good. They define the edges of things" It made me think, specifically, about how rules are used in different domains of Dave Snowden's Cynefin framework. In the Simple (Known) domain, rules dominate – things are completely predictable, […]
02
Dec
Cognitive Edge European Network – December meeting
The next gathering of the Cognitive Edge European Network comes up next week. This one's being organised by Harold van der Garderen (thanks Harold). The details are The date: Thursday Dec. 9. The venue: Agro Business Park 10, 6708 PW Wageningen, The Netherlands Wageningen lies centrally in The Netherlands and just some 30 minutes from […]
15
Sep
Experts that annoy, and annoying the experts
From the ever-reliable xkcd blog. A lovely take on the ability of some people to make any new area of knowledge conform with minimal adjustment on their part to what they’re already expert in. It’s why I love presenting the Cynefin framework to people and watching the reaction. Some like to justify why things are […]
14
Sep
The missing Leadership link
Sometimes it feels like an article pursues you around until you pay attention. (The truth, of course, is far more mundane – just that it is a piece that resonates among the various media sources I go to.) The latest examples is an article in The American Scholar, originally from an address at West Point […]