So I’ve now flagged up religion and narrative as distinct aspects of human systems, and note they are both collective in nature something that with the overall function of reducing energy costs will be a theme throughout this series. Humans like most animals to varying degrees operate best in groups, social interaction is a part […]
I was trying to remember when COVID started to impact me personally and touch wood despite lots of social contacts I either haven’t had it or didn’t notice if I did). Yes, I was aware of it, and that awareness crept up slowly and remorselessly. When it started it felt a little like SARS, not […]
As promised yesterday the main theme of this Twelvetide series is to summarise the main pillars of Naturalising Sense-making and to do so in four sections of three posts. The first three are in the field of Knowledge and this one I want to look at that in the context of the knowledge management movement. […]
This is the second post of several that I am publishing this month to update some of my original work in knowledge management and in particular the role of narrative in as a scaffold of meaning between and within individuals, community and society. I’ve been checking back on previous articles as I am working with Patrick […]
I don’t know if I displaying a keen anticipatory capability in focusing on Disorder, the all too often ignored fifth domain of Cynefin, in this annual update series; if so it was unconscious. But the current Covid-19 crisis has produced multiple examples of the criticality of the domain ranging from the deadly seriousness of triage […]
I finished off the foreword to a forthcoming book about Cynefin in Japanese a day or so ago. I wrote it in a fairly discursive and personal form and thought it might be useful to share it here. I’ve illustrated the post with two pictures by the great Welsh painter Kyffin Williams from whose work I got […]
One of the deeply negative aspects of the knowledge management period of a decade or more ago was the gross confusion of information with knowledge. One of the drivers was a quote now attributed to Bill Gates “The inventory, the value of your company, walks out the door every evening.” I remember that as originating […]
Yesterday’s post was about the need for abstraction, something I recognise years ago when I first met Max Boisot and incorporated into the first version of the Cynefin framework. Later I realised that it was the basis to my long term intuition about using triad based signifiers. Interestingly my initial musings about that didn’t get […]
In my two earlier posts on this subject, I started by challenging the knowledge management orthodoxy of codification and then proceeded to make some more sophisticated points about the nature of explicit knowledge. I also suggested that we see intuition as compressed experience. In particular, I argued that explicit knowledge arises as a result of and […]
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