Unless this is the first time you have stumbled across this blog by accident, you might have come across the idea of “the Wiki”. This usually does not refer to The Big Wiki but to the Cynefin one, which is a labour of love by many in the community and an attempt to ensure openness, authenticity, and rigour […]
Two interesting sets of interactions on social media triggered today’s post. One was a distinction made between cutting down a tree and trimming a hedge. That one came from a tweet by Sonja in which she said “I liked the analogy of hedge trimming vs tree felling. When you decide to cut down a tree, […]
I originally intended to publish this post way back in May and got all the notes together but a mixture of work pressure and ill health (a bad foot infection now resolved) have hit the backlog. If you have to spend two weeks with your foot elevated and iced taking strong anti-biotics its too easy […]
Cynefin has always been about boundaries which critical to human sense-making. Give people a spectrum and they will settle where they are most comfortable, provide a boundary and people know to behave differently on either side, and you can ritualise that boundary-crossing to make it more reliable. Ritual is one way in which humans can […]
As indicated in yesterday’s post I promised to talk today about the recommended way to create the Cynefin Framework. It’s not the only way, but is recommended. Anyone can throw together a matrix (or more recently my favorite magpie appropriated Cynefin terms into a doughnut) and ask people to populate it. But Cynefin is more […]
As is now the tradition I am using St David’s Day to provide the annual update on Cynefin. Last year in a five-part series I introduced two changes, the renaming of Obvious to Clear and critically the central Aporetic/Confused domain replaced the idea of disorder. I also started preliminary work on listing what can be […]
My weekend was disrupted, but in a good way and no it wasn’t that Wales defeated Scotland in what we are calling the year of the Red-slam; we assume the English team we face in a fortnights time are already drawing lots as to who will receive a red card. Normally I would have been in Edinburgh […]
There are two major forms of stupidity on the various debates that sprint on social media from time to time. The first is the assertion that because complex systems have no linear material causality that all forms of root cause analysis should be abandoned. the second is to assert that root cause analysis (RCA) is […]
In this final, for the moment, post on creating aporia I want to focus on the ways in which physical activity and the wider environment can create the conditions to think differently and to find novel solutions in times of perplexity and confusion. In some ways it is the most important section given that we […]
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