Closing on a great week – four day-long courses with Dave Snowden and a stimulating bunch of people in Paddington, some fascinating side meetings, while projects went to field in the background. And yesterday afternoon back for the third year to speak to the IQPC conference. I promised I’d make Read more…
Next week in New York, I’m with Cognitive Edge and UNDP exploring how to scale up projects without falling into the “duplicate and enlarge” trap. Development experts and scientists from ecology, neuroscience and complexity are coming together to look at what new approaches we can fashion that work more practically and effectively than current approaches to scaling up.
If you’ve always wondered what it was like to contribute to a SenseMaker® project – this could be your lucky week!
Two great sessions last week at the QEII Conference Centre with Dave Snowden of Cognitive Edge. The shift from theory to practical application of new management techniques based on principles of complexity, cognitive neuroscience, anthropology and others has been remarkably swift in recent years – and even for those who’ve Read more…
I’m looking forward to the sessions on Thursday on Practical Solutions to Intractable Problems with Dave Snowden. A handful of places left for the morning session of the seminar, with a couple more available in the afternoon. Details here.
I mentioned this on Wednesday. Details are finalised: Practical approaches to intractable problems Prof Dave Snowden, Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge Thursday 4th November, 9.30-12.30; 1.30-4.30, QEII Conference Centre In recent years, techniques and tools are making it possible to exploit complexity and anthropological approaches to solving intractable problems – Read more…
Dave Snowden has started blogging, I’m delighted to say. And Festival of Bureaucratic Hyper-Rationalism and Tufte and Powerpoint are excellent. Just reading the posts and recalling presentations, I can feel myself losing the will to live. His solution is common sense – and hence rare in too many cases. There Read more…