Ron Donaldson of Natural England, one of our most experienced practitioners, recently discovered the use of the Cynefin framework as a secret musical code in the 15th Century. He presented it at the recent accredition programme in London at the end of an entertaining and highly informative presentation of the various narrative programmes he has […]
I have been tagged by Dave Pollard and Luis Suarez and possibly others to take part in a sort of chain letter. One confesses to five things that other people do not know about you, and select five victims to do the same. One of the starting points was Jeff Pulver The full history of […]
Just over a week ago I summarised my understanding of three natural numbers: 5 as the effect limit of the short term memory, 15 as a natural limit on deep trust and 150 (the Dunbar number) as a natural limit on acquaintances, normally interpreted as a limited number of individuals in respect of whom one […]
After getting addicted to blogs, and engaging with the wikipedia, I am taking the next step and preparing to Podcast. Euan Semple and myself are planning to walk around megalithic wiltshire and record a conversation or two next Thursday. I can also introduce Euan to the pleasures of 6X and my wood burning stove. Its […]
For existing practitioners (anyone who has been on a training course including the IBM period – we will be organising a get together at 1600 next Tuesday 19th December near Moorgate in London. There is a certification programme on Monday-Wednesday and we will use this slot to demonstrate the latest version of the software and […]
If there is one thing worse than a speaker reading their slides (especially if they have 100 words per slide), its their using a laser pointer to show each word as they read it. You almost want to sing along …..
I will, as promised, consider the impact of natural numbers on virtual and physcial communities, but not immediately. Life got very busy this week and I want to think it through and take account of comments here on the blog and also in the originating list serve first. I also want to pick up on […]
Recognise it? Well of course, it’s the best-fit reduced major axis regression equation between neocortex ratio and mean group size for the sample of 36 primate genera taken from Dunbar’s 1992 paper which was popularised, and not unduly trivialised by Malcolm Gladwell into a natural limit on human group size of 150 (or 147.8 to […]
It has been encouraging over the last few weeks through a series of conference and client presentations to see a more realistic, nay a naturalistic approach growing in market respectability. Knowledge management practitioners seem to find it easier to get corporate buy in for narrative and social computing approaches. In a range of marketing companies […]
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