Prevailing Currents

Current events, trending publications and all kinds of interesting new things like programmes and webinars at the top of our minds right now. Have a look.

Vector theory of change- a theory of change for complex systems

As part of our Citizen Engagement and democratic innovation programme we have launched an explainer on the vector theory of change

Read Linda Doyle's short explainer to learn more about how to work within complex environments here

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upcoming event:
Narrative BaseCamp (Virtual) April 07-28, 2022

Curious about narrative theory and practice? Wanting to explore SenseMaker® and its applications but not yet ready to commit to a project? Familiar with Cynefin and wanting to go deeper into the supporting practices in complex contexts? Narrative BaseCamp offers a stronger knowledge of entry-level narrative practice and SenseMaker® software and the possibilities, principles and challenges in applying it.

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Hexi method packs kits

As part of our effort to rewild The Cynefin Company with the move away from the Cognitive Edge name, we have started been focusing on our methods and have spent much of our focus this year on the production and testing of our hexi facilitation kits.

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ANTHRO-COMPLEXITY

We are the pioneer of the field of complexity, charting the way before complexity became mainstream. We created the concepts of Naturalising Sense-making, Distributed Ethnography, Flexuous curves (formerly Apex Predator theory), and have developed the whole field now known as Anthro-complexity: complexity as experienced in human systems.

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TRAINING & LEARNING

We offer various development pathways for individuals and teams through facilitated events, online self-paced learning products, and mentoring journeys.

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CYNEFIN CENTRE

The Cynefin Centre focuses on applied complexity for social good and works primarily with not-for-profit, government and academic programmes.

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SENSEMAKER®

Gain unique insights into your business, community, markets, employees, and broader socio-economic contexts with the world's first rich data collecting crowdsourcing tool.

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OUR THINKING

Active Sensemaking, Sense-Making, Sensemaker: Apocalypse of The Proven Words

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” – Marcel Proust In this vast existence, from the movement of a blade of grass to the explosion of galaxies, it is difficult and complex to find a reason or cause for a particular event. When looking at it […]

Announcing our marketplace partnership with LEON

Bristol, UK and New York, NY, March 11th, 2022 – The Cynefin Co. and LEON announce their partnership today, coinciding with Women’s Month. Between The Cynefin Co.’s story-driven approach to data and LEON’s data-driven analysis and solutions platform for managers, the partnership is a very complementary and exciting one. Both companies are passionate about liberating human potential and […]

Vitality and infinite possibilities: in praise of waste

I wish I could remember what triggered this post, but I can’t, and it was probably many threads coming together anyway. Partly it was something someone said during one of the Complexity Yarns, partly it has been fermenting in my head as a result of reading through The Dawn of Everything. But the main point […]

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About the Cynefin Company

The Cynefin Company (formerly known as Cognitive Edge) was founded in 2005 by Dave Snowden. We believe in praxis and focus on building methods, tools and capability that apply the wisdom from Complex Adaptive Systems theory and other scientific disciplines in social systems. We are the world leader in developing management approaches (in society, government and industry) that empower organisations to absorb uncertainty, detect weak signals to enable sense-making in complex systems, act on the rich data, create resilience and, ultimately, thrive in a complex world.

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