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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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Join 3163  members in more than 41 Countries worldwide, who learn techniques to deal with uncertainty and complexity.

Sonja Blignaut Refresh Member Stories

It’s been almost 10 years since I first encountered Dave Snowden and his (then) radical thinking. I was still part of IBM at the time, and I found his thinking and consulting paradigm to be a breath of fresh air in the recipe saturated consulting world. I was involved in several of the early projects within a big South African bank, ranging from strategy and culture to knowledge management. I left IBM and started my own consulting company so that I could focus on interesting projects and continue using these methods. Currently I am co-owner (with Aiden Choles) of The Narrative Lab, our focus mainly on consulting and research. We are also the South African training partner for Cognitive Edge. We work in several industries including financial services, energy, mining and education.

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Membership in the Network
  • Privileged pricing for annual Cognitive Edge conference
  • Full Network content/features
  • Communicate with all Network members
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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