1 year, 7 months ago
From the Editor: Interview with Dave Snowden
It seems to me, that #complexity is a complex topic. Being able…
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8 years, 7 days ago
SCAN and cultureSCAN
A quick ‘Just so you know’, really, to pre-empt some possible future confusion. I gather from Dave Gray that Dave Snowden is launching a new product, designed to work in conjunction with Cognitive Edge‘s existing ‘SenseMaker’ toolset: RT @davegray: Very…
10 years, 7 months ago
Cynefin and the Chaotic domain – a (non)-review
This is the ‘review’ follow-on to the previous post ‘Cynefin and the Chaotic domain – an update‘. Back in that post I pointed to a report by Dave Snowden that he’s posted an update on ‘Cynefin subdomains in the Chaotic’,…
10 years, 7 months ago
Cynefin and the Chaotic domain – an update
The first part of this is just a ‘public-service announcement’ service for Cynefin aficionados: Dave Snowden has announced that his current process of updating Cynefin has now extended to include a rethink of the Chaotic domain: RT @snowded: 2 months…
10 years, 7 months ago
How anti-clients happen (and what to do about it)
Are there any anti-clients for you in your enterprise? Who are they? How did they turn so actively against you? And what can you do about it, and them, in the design and implementation of your enterprise-architecture? Who are anti-clients? To…
10 years, 7 months ago
Co-inspiring in the Chaotic domain
How can we collaborate in chaos? Or, to put it the other way round, how can we use apparent chaos to drive decisions that guide towards some desired yet emergent aim? As you’ll see, this post itself is a kind of…
10 years, 10 months ago
Updates to Cynefin
(Don’t worry: this is little more than a Public Service Announcement for those enterprise-architecture folks who are interested in the Cynefin framework.) From knowledge-management guru David Gurteen, I hear via Twitter that David Snowden is currently updating some of his…
11 years, 3 months ago
Making Sense of the Enterprise Continuum, Part I
There is that famous proverb by George E. P.Box: All models are wrong but some are useful. If there is one model that fits that criterion, it must be Cynefin. Cynefin regularly receives criticism, grounded and ungrounded, for example by academics for its … Continue reading →
11 years, 4 months ago
More on principles and decision-time
Seems that that Twitter-conversation about principles and decision-making just keeps on rollin’ on. Stijn Viaene kicked the ball rolling again with the following Tweet: destivia: @ebuise @tetradian @richardveryard Never forget a ‘model’ is always only a preliminary version of how we see or want to see reality. After which, yes, the whole happy ‘passel o’ […]
11 years, 6 months ago
Comparing SCAN and Cynefin
Sensemaking in business? What is this [choose-your-expletive] ‘SCAN‘? Why complicate things with yet another sensemaking-framework? Isn’t SCAN just a rebadged rip-off of Cynefin? And why not just use Cynefin like everyone else does, anyway? I’ll be providing some detailed worked-examples of SCAN in the next few posts or so, but I’d better get these questions […]
11 years, 7 months ago
Using Cynefin in enterprise-architecture
This is in part an addendum to the previous post. The main aim here, though, is simply to provide some practical guidance on how and where the Cynefin framework should and should not be used in enterprise-architectures and the like. This advice draws on my own practical experience with use of Cynefin since 2003, and […]
11 years, 7 months ago
Standing up for the value of our work
How do we prove the value of our work? How we defend that value against unprincipled attack? These are real questions that we all need to face, especially in inherently-’unprovable’ disciplines such as enterprise-architecture. So let’s put these questions into practice. Several people have asked me for a detailed worked-example of the sensemaking-technique of context-space mapping […]