Prevailing Currents

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

How to create a citizen sensor network

As part of our Citizen Engagement and democratic innovation programme we have created our guide on how to create a citizen sensor network.

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WHEN MEANING LOSES ITS MEANING

This journey with Nora and Dave offers unique perspectives – tracing the roots of ideas and discerning subtle differences – towards a shared curiosity in the integrity of cultural dialogue and tending vital connections across understandings.

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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 been focusing on our methods and have spent much of our focus this year on the production and testing of our hexi facilitation kits.

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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.

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CYNEFIN CENTRE

The Cynefin Centre focuses on applied complexity for social good and works primarily with not-for-profit, government and academic programmes.

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TRAINING & LEARNING

We offer various development pathways for individuals and teams through facilitated events, online self-paced learning products, and mentoring journeys.

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SENSEMAKER®

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

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OUR THINKING

Twelvetide 21:10 mapping

Mapping and the need for maps underpins a lot of this series of posts - both in terms of understanding rituals & habits as well as my more discursive comments in the footers that explain the banner images. I should also say that I am always slightly nervous talking about mapping as its one […]

Twelvetide 21:09 sacred & profane

There is some debate in the literature as to the difference between repetitive actions and ritual acts, the argument being that the latter will also contain some symbolic aspect, in the object or what the object means. In a sense this brings us back to an older difference between the sacred and the profane, words […]

Twelvetide 21:08 remembering

I can’t really imagine going walking without a camera, and by that I don’t mean the iPhone although I have fallen back to that at times. Landscape photography is a part and parcel of my identity and the Nikon 810 full frame comes into its own in the mountains. Maybe this is the year I […]

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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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The Cynefin Company is an action research and development hub working at the limits of applied complexity science: where sparks become light, light becomes research and research becomes practice. #makingsenseofcomplexity