Making Sense of Complexity

The Cynefin Company helps organisations make sense of a complex world so that they can act and create positive change.

Prevailing Currents

Learning & training, current events, trending publications and all kinds of interesting new things like programmes and webinars are at the top of our minds right now. Have a look.

Premium Membership - The Cynefin CO

Come and join our worldwide community of complexity, Cynefin® and SenseMaker® practitioners. Gain valuable insights from leading experts, access high-quality content, a learning platform, and an opportunity to connect and engage with other complexity practitioners globally. By enrolling as a Premium Member, you'll enjoy remarkable discounts on a wide range of learning products.

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Basecamp

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Make sense of situations to guide decision-making and management approaches today.

Cynefin® Basecamp is an immersive and participative introduction to sense-making, complexity, and the tools and methods of the renowned Cynefin® Framework. Newcomers to complexity and Cynefin® will experience and explore the challenges of managing, leading, and taking action in complex human systems.

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Hexi method packs kits

As part of our effort to rewild The Cynefin Company with the move away from the Cognitive Edge name, we have started focusing on our methods. We have spent much of our focus this year on producing and testing our Hexi facilitation kits. 

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THE CYNEFIN CO. UPCOMING EVENTS

The Cynefin Co hosts a range of events including Masterclasses, Advanced Training, Retreat, Members & Public meetups,  and Partner events. 
TRAINING & LEARNING

Training and Learning with The Cynefin Company focus on Complexity theory-informed practices.

We offer various development pathways for Organisations and individuals through facilitated events (virtual and in-person), together with online self-paced learning products and mentoring journeys.

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SENSEMAKER®

Gain unique insights into your  Research, business, community, markets, employees, and broader socio-economic contexts with the world's first rich data collecting crowdsourcing tool.

If you are new to SenseMaker you can start with the basics of  "What is SenseMaker"

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ANTHRO-COMPLEXITY

We are the pioneer of the field of complexity, charting the way before complexity became mainstream. We created the concepts of Naturalising Sense-making, Distributed Ethnography, Flexuous curves (formerly Apex Predator theory), and have developed the whole field now known as Anthro-complexity: complexity as experienced in human systems.

WHAT'S NEW AT CYNEFIN - OUR THINKING

The chaos word
I’ve been finishing the Cynefin Field Guide, which will be ready for pre-orders in early December. All the primary text is now there, either original writing or cutting, pasting and then updating from blog posts. It will be in Field notebook size (memories of keeping notes on geology field trips here), which is 21cm by […]
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World Migratory Bird Day
October 12th is, if you believe it, World Migratory Bird Day. If you’ve been reading Dave’s blogs for a while, you’ll know birds are an occasional source of inspiration. It’s got us all thinking here at the Cynefin Co. about the role of complexity thinking in our relationship with the natural world. Now of course, […]
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PAGODA
Since my last post, life has been a little frantic, moving with little rest between three continents and a schedule that left me no time to keep up with email, let alone write blog posts or get started on one overdue article on alternatives to scenario planning.  That builds on the recent 3As paper, which […]
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About the Cynefin Company

The Cynefin Company (formerly known as Cognitive Edge) was founded in 2005 by Dave Snowden. We believe in praxis and focus on building methods, tools and capability that apply the wisdom from Complex Adaptive Systems theory and other scientific disciplines in social systems. We are the world leader in developing management approaches (in society, government and industry) that empower organisations to absorb uncertainty, detect weak signals to enable sense-making in complex systems, act on the rich data, create resilience and, ultimately, thrive in a complex world.
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