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New Training summary

By Dave Snowden  ·  March 19, 2013  ·  News

A good day in Hong Kong, most of it spent with a group of senior marketing executives looking at a range of issues on human sensor networks, big data and the like.  It was a closed meeting so no pod cast I'm afraid.  Yesterday I sent a mailer to all network members which included the new training material and I promised to summarise the various options today so here goes! 

The main Cognitive Edge training programme is transitioning from the old Foundations and Advanced to a modular approach which we hope provides a more coherent...

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BCS Conference

By Dave Snowden  ·  March 17, 2013  ·  Conference blogs, News

I started yesterday with a keynote address to the BCS Agile group.  I'd accepted the booking some time ago on condition that I was on first so that I could get to Cardiff in time for certain important events but it made for a packed morning.  I only got back from Amsterdam late on Friday night and had to start a two week trip to Hong Kong and Singapore on Sunday so time was packed.   I made my train from Swindon by the skin of my teeth (and I am praying the speed camera in Wroughton was not active!  I had also only realised the...

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New training - March early bird

By Dave Snowden  ·  March 14, 2013  ·  News

We've finally done the refresh of the training programme to the point where we can publish it with courses up for London and Melbourne, with either Seattle or San Francisco to follow tomorrow when we settle which is best.  Voting on twitter is 50-50 at the moment so more opinions welcome.  Either comment here or email.  You can see (and book) in the training section of the web site and I've linked the first two above. 

In essence the old Foundations and Advanced courses have been combined with new material on the various Cynefin...

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New SenseMaker® web site

By Dave Snowden  ·  March 6, 2013  ·  News

I spent a fair amount of today working on the text for our "new" SenseMaker® web site.  For too many complex reasons it had ended up as more of an internal note.  Now it really needs a complete revamp but Michael to his great credit drove an interim solution, using the current template but with different text and images.  That he argued could be done now and after realising we could progressively complicate it with hot links I agreed.  That would give us a few months while the iOS version of Explorer produces its first fruit and we...

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Cognitive Edge accreditation

By Dave Snowden  ·  February 28, 2013  ·  News

We have maintained a somewhat ambiguous position on accreditation over the years.   During the IBM period we experimented with examinations and essay writing but that consumed resource for little return and consistency was a problem.   For Cognitive Edge’s education programme we went with an approach which said if you attended our 2-day Accreditation course you were an accredited member of the network with an expectation that you would contribute to the methods via the wiki and also publish cases.  That really didn't work either!

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