I’ve just submitted my PhD! Cue a giant sigh of relief. I’ve been with The Cynefin Co, on the Health Programme team, since April 2021. Alongside this, I have been on a four-year journey of a cotutelle PhD in Exercise, Nutrition, and Health Sciences between the University of Bristol and the University of Cape Town, […]
Earlier in the month, I wrote two posts on networks, and in the second gave the first public airing to one of the most important developments of the last few years namely Entangled Trios. On either side of the link, you will see posts from my good friend Valdis Krebs. This post is a response […]
Initially Dave and I each wrote a post around what see as important to discuss in the upcoming Exploratory. Part of what we are doing here is sense-making and now I am going to make sense of what David wrote and start a conversation on those topics. Social and Organizational Network Analysis (SNA/ONA) Reading through […]
Many years ago now, at the end of the Knowledge Wars in IBM, I ended up (as a part of the peace settlement) working in the Institute for Knowledge Management (IKM). That meant flying to Boston once a month and staying in the Marriott Kendal Square which was just over the road from the MIT […]
I was in a bad mood this morning. A consequence of drinking far more than I am used to these days and knowledge of the purgatory of near starvation I will need to go through to get my weight back to where it should be by the end of the week. Ok its not that […]
I ran through the various papers on narrative yesterday. I spent longer than I planned on that post as I ended up reading several of them and taking notes. We are looking at the overall training programme at the moment and I am thinking of bringing back a two day course on narrative. I used […]
So what does all this add up to in terms of the use of Cynefin and Sensemaker ideas in the evaluation field. I think there is good news and bad news. Let me deal with the bad news first. There are four aspects : Legitimacy. On the whole the evaluation field draws inspiration and legitimacy […]
It is great to have been asked to be a guest blogger for Cognitive Edge! I thought it worthwhile sharing with you my journey into complexity as a starting point for the next couple of weeks. Up until a couple of years ago I was working predominantly with large professional service firms. The last role […]
As some of you will know there has been controversy in the ActKM list serve on the subject of surveys. No one has yet attempted any serious defense of questionnaires, although one academic who provided a weak one is now arguing that the debate should cease which I will count as an admission of failure. […]
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