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  • Independent consultants: Complement your consulting toolkit with unique & novel techniques based on Complexity Science and Narrative 
  • You work with lots of people? Enhance the outcomes of meetings, workshops, project and team work in unexpected & beneficial ways 
  • Everyone: Increasingly in this world we get blind-sided by unanticipated change - learn how to expect the unexpected!

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I’ve been an Accredited Practitioner of the Cognitive Edge Network since 2006, though even before that I’d known of Dave Snowden through the ESOMAR congress in Cannes. The Cognitive Edge Methods I learned of there impressed me. After attending an Accreditation course in Vancouver, I began to use Cognitive Edge methods in workshops with my clients, in particular the Archetype Extraction method. I’ve used it for more than twenty times now, and it continues to impress me with the richness and novelty of each new input. The archetypes that emerge from the culture of my client organizations in these exercises have been used for a variety of change projects. Cognitive Edge methods have enriched me both intellectually and professionally and because of this I remain an active member of the Cognitive Edge Network.

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Membership in the Network
  • Privileged pricing for annual Cognitive Edge conference
  • Full Network content/features
  • Communicate with all Network members
  • Subscription to Fragments newsletter
Opportunities to Learn
  • Discount of 15% off payment for all public courses and seminars (not cumulative)
  • Discount (5%) for all public courses and seminars (not cumulative)
Access to the Content Library

Full access to Library, including:

  • All published Content
  • Monthly content releases
  • Pre-assembled Methods for specific areas of focus (Examples: Strategy, Leadership, Cultural Transformation)
  • Access to basic Library content (includes a set of Methods)
Use of License
  • Rights to use Cognitive Edge techniques and tools commercially (required for independent consultants selling consulting that use the Methods)
  • Privileged pricing on SenseMaker® software and specific packaged offerings that use SenseMaker®
  • Rights to use Cognitive Edge Methods (those available with Basic Membership) for personal use
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You probably have many traditional approaches to meeting challenges, but what do you do to cope with a sudden shift in your organisation or marketplace? What do you do when traditional approaches break down and don’t work, or worse, you end up with an even bigger problem?

Cognitive Edge is focused on rejuvenating management practices to better equip organisations when addressing intractable problems or seizing new opportunities in uncertain, unpredictable and complex situations, especially where traditional approaches have failed. The Cognitive Edge Network makes this available on a membership basis. It is unlike any other professional network:

Library: A library of proven tools and techniques. Proven through 100's of consulting projects worldwide over the last 13 years

Education: Education that builds skills and equips individuals and teams with novel and complimentary tools and techniques 

Diverse Network: In excess of 3,000 members in more than 41 countries, consisting of Independent Consultants; In-House Practitioners; Academics and Researchers