I have come to think of the Simple domain as the Enabling domain. However, most of our clients enjoy the excitement of the Complex domain, and dismiss the Simple domain as necessary though dull, but this is too shortsighted. If we manage them correctly, activities in the Simple domain enable us to spend more time […]
I’ve been meaning to share this story for a bit. For some years now the Cynefin framework has been taught at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterrey and they also produced a wonderful alternative version of the children’s party story. They recently sent me a story by Captain Richard Alexander of the Tulsa Police […]
I’ve been making the point for some years now that we learn more from failure that we do from success, or more importantly from tolerated failure. Its at the heart of apprentice models of learning. The apprentice imperfectly imitates the master and makes many mistakes, they also talk with other apprentices imperfectly imitating other masters […]
Let’s recap. The evaluation field tends to use things called “Logic Models” to assess and determine the “worth” of interventions. These go under various names, Program Logic, LogFrame, and strike fear into the hearts of many evaluators and managers of interventions because they often act as straight-jackets to messy projects. Funders of interventions love them […]
One of my most profound and enjoyable memories was being taught by Edward De Bono. Edward is regarded by many to be the leading authority in the world in the field of creative thinking and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. I first met Edward in Chicago in April 1993 when I became […]
One of the CE graphics that produced an “Ah-hah!” moment for me was Dave’s S-curve diagram. It wasn’t the first time that I had seen S-curves. At the global consulting firm where I worked, there were plenty of S-curve charts showing industries and firms going through life cycles. My “Ah-hah!” occurred discussing the bubble formed […]
This concept comes from Steve Haeckel, a colleague of Dave at IBM. Know-why knowledge is knowledge of the system and how interdependencies of the parts generate the purposeful functioning of the whole. Know-how knowledge is process knowledge that links vertical silos (hierarchies) using best practices and tasks alignment. With respect to what Cognitive Edge practitioners […]
Yesterday I talked briefly about the need for a prepared mind, and a prepared organisation to ensure the fast detection, fast recover, early exploitation capability required in creating the resilient organisation. It was a casual posting in part intended to pull in a couple more participants for the Frankfurt seminar on the 1st April (my […]
One of the key points I have been making in the new seminar (and a few keynotes) over the last week is that resilience requires not just a prepared mind, but also a prepared organisation. That means building network connectivity and cross silo deployment capability before it is needed not during the event. Creating mass […]
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