Over the last few years, we have used the retreat format, which runs using our hybrid between a traditional conference and an unconference, namely the triopticon, to engage our community in developing methods, tools and concepts early in the cycle. For example, we ran events on three continents to look at design thinking from a […]
The general theme of this series has focused on the nature of information, or more accurately, the processing of being informed. In the OED, the various definitions of information include the imparting of knowledge and, more specifically, the shaping of the mind and character, communication of facts, intelligence, a mathematical quantity “divorced from any concept […]
So I’m two-thirds of the way through this series, and it’s time to take stock. The goal was to pick up and develop the Bateson concept of the difference that makes a difference, but that was, at best, a sense of direction. I have had everything planned out in previous years, and while I did […]
I want to continue with my marketing to Yale Graduates theme from yesterday. One of the characteristics of activists is that, with a few exceptions, they tend to view that, given the right opportunities, everyone wants to be like them. I reference my Mrs E M C Davies story here, a formative experience at […]
One of the common phrases in modern political commentary, and I find it depressing, is that we are no longer working with principles; everything is now transactional. To a degree, I am exhibiting a degree of hiraeth here, a nostalgia to return to a past that probably never existed in the way I remember […]
I almost became an involuntary actor in the wrong sort of story today. I took a brief break in Porthmadog (see yesterday’s banner picture) to get in three, possibly four, walks in Eryri. I watched Cardiff beat the Dragons for the twentieth time on Boxing Day. Then, after dropping my son off at […]
As is customary in the Christmas series, I want to set some personal context for this – learning and reflecting on my own experience. An eclectic career and education can naturally orient you to complexity and uncertainty. University was Philosophy and Physics, but also through being Leader of the House of Debates and Legal officer […]
One of the most common assumptions in many a management field is the assumption that if you could get the right information to the right people at the right time, and if those people had the right training, the right mindset and the right authority, then magically all would be well with the world. Associated […]
Many of you will know the origins of the body of methods, tools, and theory that is Cynefin has its formal origins in my work at IBM on Knowledge Management (KM), which started in 1996. I can trace the roots through my roles in strategy, general management (working in decision support systems), SCM/WSCF, […]
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