The Hexi packs around the EU Field Guide sold out much faster than we anticipated, and subsequent workshops and experiments using them have confirmed their power to engage people as well as to act as a form of extended memory which also extended the options available in programme design. The second edition will be out […]
For most of my life I’ve been working with various forms of symbiosis and synthesis. Bringing the natural sciences as an enabling constraint to understand social systems is the big idea behind Cognitive Edge. Symbiosis, or evolved mutual interdependency has always fascinated me and the idea is central to today’s post. We are currently using […]
I wrote a series of posts about scaling over three year ago which in part addressed some of the perversities of methods focused on accreditation revenue to which I referred yesterday. They were important posts and sections will be dumped in Scrivener over the next months as I get ready for an intense booking writing […]
After my series of posts on scaling it was time to but some of that work into a seminar/training course that I ran with Simon Bennett. We'd spent some time talking and planning it on a walk near Congee beach with Simon and Saf earlier in the week and I got a chance to see […]
To my final post on scaling, at least for the moment as it's a big and developing subject. There is a tendency in some complexity writing to simply abandon the whole question of management to vague and idealistic statements about self-organising and natural systems. The simple fact is that choosing not to do something is […]
In my second post on scaling I talked about about two types of scaling and the last two posts handled the issue of scaling up within the enterprise. The essence of yesterday's post was that we need to allow cluster patterns to emerge from finely grained objects in three areas: strategy, capability and needs. Each […]
Yesterday I promised to move on the How do you scale success? question but working on Friday's seminar with Simon that afternoon various other thoughts came to mind and I started to sketch out the diagrams that appear below. For those interested and able to get to Sydney this link will give you a third […]
I had more time to think than I planned on the flight to Sydney last night. I got upgraded to club which was a good start, but service takes longer so sleep time was cut down, and then destroyed by three families with 9/10 year old kids whose body clocks seem set at mid-morning and […]
Scaling as a subject seems topical at the moment. Cognitive Edge has been working with the UNDP on how do you scale success in the development sector and we recently ran a fascinating event in New York look at the science of how complex adaptive systems scale which is now moving into early experimental […]
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