Today is a travel day and the longest leg of my journey will be starting soon. In about an hour I will be aboard the Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Hong Kong. The final leg is a short 3 hrs from Hong Kong to Singapore however including the HKG layover I'm 17 hours away […]
Late this afternoon I was tending to some errands with the family ahead of being away on a two-week business trip. One of the disadvantages of having a job that requires frequent travel often to distant destinations is being away from one's spouse and children. I have two children… a daughter who is 10 going […]
For the first few years of my work with Cognitive Edge, the Cynefin framework, and complexity in general, I did not fully understand the value of ambiguous instructions or messaging. Coming from a hard science background, specifically applied science in mechanical engineering, I was far more at home and comfortable with making things explicit and […]
I just completed a two week business trip and my last two stops were New York and Amsterdam. Two cities I very much enjoy and found it fascinating to learn just a few years ago that New York was originally New Amsterdam. One can definitely see similarities in street attitudes however as we all know […]
Yesterday I was traveling from NYC to Vancouver after spending the week in New York delivering our Practitioners Foundations course. I always enjoy my visits to New York as the rural to urban contrast for me coming from a very rural home in the West Kootenay’s of British Columbia Canada is always a delight. Seeing […]
During the SenseMaker® day at the Practitioner Foundations course I delivered in Toronto with Terry Miller, I decided to open with Chimamanda Adichie's: The danger of a single story TED talk. This is the second time I started this optional training day with this video with the other time being last year in Singapore when Aiden […]
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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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