We are happy to announce a new self-paced online course called SenseMaker® Environment. This course gives participants three-month access to a variety of videos, audios, and a tutorial on the SenseMaker environment composition.
The course is priced at $199 USD. You can use your membership discount code when signing up for this course.
For additional information go here.
]]>I think this is the first time I have personally written to all network members. Thinking about it, my blog is the main method of communication. However there is always a first time, and the material here warranted my getting personally involved.
Staff change
As indicated, over the last 2 years, Cognitive Edge has both evolved and adapted to change. On this basis we'd like to announce the departure of Warwick Holder, who is leaving to pursue other interests. Warwick joined our management team 2 years ago (leaving Microsoft) and in that time:... ]]>
Translating Cynefin is a Network-sourced venture, and one we hope will bear much fruit in months to come. To this end we've created a new forum, Cynefin, and a topic EU translations to kickstart with what we already have, thanks to various Network members (credited in the forum). The idea here is to stimulate discussion, not present any one translation as definitive and final, so we're looking forward to your participation in the forum.
More EU translations, and Asian translations are also highly welcome, and separate forum topics will be created for the latter... ]]>
As a small company and a fairly large Network (relatively speaking), we're always looking at better ways to:
Co-create and interact with the Network Apply our own principles within our company
On this basis we have developed a simple way of having you, the Network tell us where you'd like a class held and on what topic. You can go to this page on the education section of the website, and browse through the proposed courses that others want and the the cities they are proposed for, then vote for a... ]]>
We're pleased to announce the following courses in Amsterdam:
Practitioner Foundations and SenseMaker® Workshop, 4-6 Feb 2013
Practitioner Advanced, 7 Feb 2013
Do register early to take advantage of the Early Bird discount!
]]>We'd like to announce these upcoming courses:
Practitioner Foundations
London, UK Boston Washington DC
Practitioner Advanced
Calgary, Canada London, UK Seattle, USA Boston Washington DC
SenseMaker® Foundations
Albany, New York
Furthermore, we are now offering a separate booking code that allows a registrant to combine the Practitioner Foundations and Advanced courses when offered at the same location and dates.
London and DC will be the first two cities... ]]>
We'd like to let you know that we've published the ASHEN Method. ASHEN has primarily been used in Knowledge Management activities, but is a very useful approach generally. It's been used extensively in many engagements worldwide over the last 10 years. You can find the Method here:
http://cognitive-edge.com/library/methods/
We'd also like to announce the launch of the new Network Forums feature. As we announced some time back, we're closing the older Ning community gathering site and encouraging you all to use the new functionality encompassed in... ]]>
Hi Everyone
We'd like to listen to you on this matter. We're considering bringing back a form of accreditation, but with a very different form. In the past "Accreditation" simply meant that people had attended the basic course and we were concerned to avoid any confusion with or suggestion of "certification".
We're thinking that some form of practical experience (documented, even in anecdotal form) with either the Methods or SenseMaker® over an extended period of time would provide something of greater value to network members. What it... ]]>
Die Projektur is featuring the Cynefin Framework's creator Dave Snowden, Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge, in a two-day training programme that offers a range of methods, tools and concepts that bring complexity science to bear on the area of software development, requirements capture and project management.
Participants of the Lean Kanban Central Europe 2012 Conference can take advantage of a 10% LKCE12 discount for this training.
For more information or to register, please visit Die Projektur's event page.
]]>Join Dave Snowden for a 1-day seminar in Rotterdam, the Netherlands as he focuses specifically on how decision makers can change approaches to decision making by utilising Cynefin Dynamics. Managing dynamics is about subtle shifts in context so that change happens naturally with minimal intervention, or at the most small safe-to-fail interventions. This evolutionary approach enables higher resilience and sustainability than conventional methods and tools. For more details or to sign up, visit the event page.
]]>We've decided to offer two specific benefits to members of the Cognitive Edge Network. Starting with the release of the next series of scheduled classes and seminars, we'd invite you to concurrently utilise the Early Bird prices and your Network Membership discount. We'd encourage you to take advantage of this as you consider registering for a class/seminar, AND, we'd appreciate you passing this on to friends and colleagues. If you take advantage of this double discount the price of registration actually drops from current prices, but please be mindful of the expiry date... ]]>
The discounted price ($149) to become a Premium Member of the Network is due to expire end June. From July 1st the price will then revert to the full price of membership of $249 annually. If you or your friends and colleagues have been considering membership, please act now and/or let them know, there's still a few days left to take advantage of this reduced price. The benefits of Premium Membership are listed here:
cognitive-edge.com/main
If you belong to an organisation and may be interested in a group discount, these are still... ]]>
Hi Everyone This is our next monthly release of Content. The details are below. As always we'd love to hear back from you on what you're looking for? We're open to adopting requests for future development (on a month by month basis). Just use the User Voice panel, at the bottom left of each screen, or email me direct on warwick.holder@cognitive-edge.com
New Concept Paper: Building Networks and Social Capital for Trust and Collective Intelligence
This paper has been released for Premium Members and it discusses one of our... ]]>
Our NING site was originally created by network members, but when NING moved to a charging model we agreed to support it. However the new website for network members has been established for some time now. As it provides most of the discussion/question capability for which the NING site was originally created we will be closing this website down on June 29th, at 6:00PM, West Coast USA time. NING will not allow us to archive the material, so if there is anything you want to preserve we suggest you copy off the site as... ]]>
About
CALM Beta is the follow up to the CALMAlpha event, held near Reading, UK in February of this year.
CALM (Cynefin, Agile and Lean Mashups) was conceived by Karl Scotland, Simon Bennett, David Snowden, Steve Freeman and Joseph Pelrine, who all had the vision of exploring ways of growing the application of cognitive and complexity science to meet the challenges facing modern organisations, and in particular, those adopting Agile and Lean ways of working. The goal of CALM is to grow a community of thinkers, practitioners, and researchers who further the application of... ]]>