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Dave Snowden
I moved over from updating Cynefin on St David’s Day each year to updating the third framework, namely Estuarine Mapping.   That was in two parts and you can trace back the whole thread in the links provided there.  I’ve been developing this approach largely in public which is an interesting and, in the main, […]
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Dave Snowden
In my first post in this emerging series on the naturalising in Naturalising Sense-making, I talked about the need to do multiple parallel probes around any coherent hypothesis in order to find out what is possible. That of course applies to the complex domain, on the ordered domain we can run with the orthodoxy of conventional wisdom […]
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Dave Snowden
In my last post I started to open up the question of how we use natural science to reduce the energy cost of change.  I argued for testing an idea for coherence and excluding ideas which are incoherent.  I know what to look at and the types of ideas we can have and in doing […]
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Dave Snowden
This past week saw me head up to the University of Hull to give the Michael Jackson Lecture.  It was an enjoyable affair starting with dinner with Mike along with Gerald and Amanda, Co-Directors of the Centre for Systems Studies where I hold a visiting Chair.  The Centre was set up many years ago by […]
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Dave Snowden
In yesterday’s post, I reminded readers of three critical aspects of a complex adaptive system:  (i) it is necessary, but not sufficient, for there to be many elements;  (ii) rich, short-range interactions between those elements are necessary and probably sufficient; (iii) the elements are not aware of the whole, necessary but not sufficient.   That […]
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Dave Snowden
Over the last month or so, I have been emphasising the need for lots of small projects, either focused on resolving immediate issues or changing the substrate or energy gradient of the system.  I’ve also been reminding people of Nonaka’s famous dictum of change needing to be middle-bottom-up.  Indeed, the last thing you want to be […]
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Dave Snowden
Back on St David’s day at the start of this month, Ben Taylor promoted a link to a post from Steve Schefer comparing my work with that of John Seddon.  It was interesting and given some current intersections with Seddon’s Vanguard Method, I thought I would write a response.  It’s also worth reading the exchange […]
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Dave Snowden
In yesterday’s post, I provided a basic update on where Estuarine mapping is in terms of method.   I’d also strongly recommend people to read Tom Kerwin’s account of an Estuarine Mapping exercise we ran together a few weeks ago – not just for the account but also for what he did to integrate the […]
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Dave Snowden
It’s been my practice for some years to use St David’s Day as a chance to update the latest version of Cynefin.  Last year was no exception but in the second of two posts I indicated that 2023 would see this extend to other frameworks within the Cynefin ecosystem.  The reason was that with the […]
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