A leader's framework for decision making
- D. Snowden, M. Boone
- History
- 2007
1 of 9 10/29/07 11:49 AM David J. Snowden (snowded@mac.com) is the founder and chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge, an international research network. He is based primarily in Lockeridge,…
The new dynamics of strategy: sense-making in a complex and complicated world
- C. Kurtz, D. Snowden
- EngineeringIEEE Engineering Management Review
- 1 July 2003
This publication contains reprint articles for which IEEE does not hold copyright and which are likely to be copyrighted.
Complex acts of knowing: paradox and descriptive self-awareness
- D. Snowden
- Computer ScienceJournal of Knowledge Management
- 1 May 2002
The Centre is based on a model of networked intelligence, creating a broad and loosely structured coalition of academics, industrial and governmental organisations to create new insight and understanding for its members into the complexity of managing in a new age of uncertainty.
A leader's framework for decision making. A leader's framework for decision making.
- D. Snowden, M. Boone
- BusinessHarvard Business Review
- 1 November 2007
The Cynefin framework, which helps executives sort issues into five contexts, says a leader must first act to establish order, sense where stability is present, and then work to transform the situation from chaos to complexity.
Story telling: an old skill in a new context
- D. Snowden
- Business
- 1 March 1999
Story telling is a uniting and defining component of all communities. The quality of story telling and its conformity or otherwise with desired corporate values is one measure of the overall health…
Strategy in the context of uncertainty
- D. Snowden
- Business
- 1 December 2005
This paper challenges the assumption of discoverable order inherent in most approaches to strategy. A false dichotomy between order and chaos is removed by the introduction of a third system type,…
Multi-ontology sense making: a new simplicity in decision making.
- D. Snowden
- EducationInformatics In Primary Care
- 2005
At the end of the party you would know whether it had been a success, but you could not have defined what that success would look like in advance.
The New Dynamics of Strategy sensemaking in a complex-complicated world
- C. Kurtz, D. Snowden
- Computer Science
- 2004
The Cynefin framework is described, a sense-making device developed to help people make sense of the complexities made visible by the relaxation of three basic assumptions prevalent in organizational decision support and strategy.
Managing for Serendipity or why we should lay off "best practice" in KM
- D. Snowden
- Political Science
- 2003
Over the last two to three years I have asked well over 100 audiences at conferences, in company workshops and academic seminars a simple question: “What spreads fastest in your organisation, stories…
Cynefin , A Sense of Time and Place : an Ecological Approach to Sense Making and Learning in Formal and Informal Communities
- D. Snowden
- Computer Science
- 2001
This paper outlines one of several sense making models developed by the author based on fieldwork across a range of organizations, distinguished between mechanical, Newtonian models of management science and the emerging organic approach, which draws on concepts from complexity theory.
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