I was driving Sonja back to Cape Town airport this morning after a very useful session yesterday with Marietjie and Zhen working through various ways in which we can visual data from SenseMaker®. We took advantage of my being in South Africa for a client project and Zhen being over to teach Stellenbosch University (a […]
My main engagement today was to present on the application of complexity theory to forecasting to a group of senior clients of Grant Thornton in Johannesburg. In the build up I was asked a series of questions about forecasting and the future to which I sketched out a hasty response. The marketing firm they work […]
I promised to summarise my contribution to the Kuwait event on the Knowledge Economy. The subject has been around for a long time but it has increased in importance for countries such as Kuwait where the drop in oil price and long term issues with carbon fuels means that there is a need to diversify. […]
This is the first of a series of occasional posts I plan using English words that have gone out of fashion. I’ve even created a new blog category for these as the idea of using them to stimulate thinking and writing amuses me. My first, Fudgel is defined as the act of giving the impression […]
I’m bringing this series to an end in a storm-blown cottage in North Wales. All part of training for the Annapurna circuit at the end of March with Daughter. We booked the week to coincide with some work at Bangor and my vision of the week was clearing work early morning and evening with 5-7 […]
I gave a longish lecture today as a part of the Public Service Commissioner’s event in Whitehorse, Yukon. I started by thanking several of the Provinces as my first post IBM project was in Saskatoon, the first micro-scenarion and cultural mapping projects were in British Colombia and Novia Scotia and the Yukon both have SenseMaker® […]
Cynefin as a framework has always been as much about dynamic movement between domains as it has been about the domains themselves. They were part of the early two by two version published in Knowledge Horizons over a decade ago when I was developing the framework based on a reading of Boisot’s I-Space which again […]
I recently heard that Complex Acts of Knowing had been assessed as a classic paper in Knowledge Management, moreover it was in the top ten based on citations. I suspect that is because it was one of the first papers to connect complexity science to knowledge management. It was also one of the first to […]
An interesting day at the Summer Institute which ended gloriously with a long evening of discussion and story telling with Vernon Cronen and John Shotter at the conference dinner. All three of us products of a liberal arts education which meant the discussion ranged from Thurber's humour to comparing politics in the US to that […]
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