I discovered Cognitive Edge and the Cynefin Model after learning, studying, applying and dabbling in a number of other models and tool sets, mostly in the fields of management science and continuous improvement. I’d like to spend a portion of my guest blogs talking about some of the insights I’ve picked up on my learning […]
In my (Sonja) last entry, I mentioned a recent project in one of the large gold mining concerns in South Africa. In this entry, I’d like share some of the experiences from this project. I have been part of multiple pre-hypothesis narrative enquiry projects over the last few years; it’s probably the Cognitive Edge process […]
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The basic Estuarine Framework has not changed significantly since last year’s publication; the vulnerable zone has been renamed volatile, but that is it for the base framework, which is a testament to its utility. What has changed are the options to generate items for the framework, the action types have extended, and the need to […]
In this second post, I promised to describe the AIMS framework fully, and in doing that, I will also bring in ASHEN in an integrated frame with one of the critical parts of Estuarine Mapping. I first referenced this on the blog in January, but I had already started to use and develop it several […]
I’m playing with fire a bit here as I am not a native Welsh speaker, and there are subtleties of meaning that I don’t fully understand. Any feedback is appreciated, and please assume good intent. Still, I was struck when reading a poem in translation – with the original Welsh on the adjacent page – […]
One of the most frequent corrections I have to make to public uses of Cynefin is to clarify that it is a framework, not a model; in some ways, it is more irritating than pointing out that you can’t have five quadrants. The latter I find more amusing in direct proportion to the educational level […]
Observant readers will have noticed that I am using pragmatism in two respects: yesterday in reference to abduction and the Pragmatists today in respect to the more normal day-to-day use. In the opening post, I talked about our natural ability to manage patterns in our daily lives and how language carries highly contextual meaning in […]
I’m going way back today to when I was working for Datasolve, before the management buyout that merged it with Software Sciences to create DataSciences which was then taken over by IBM as a part of creating IBM Global Services. So that is at least thirty-five years ago. I was then managing a decision support […]
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