All tagged Dave Snowden
I picked up Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World just recently, though it came out last fall as a celebration of (at least) 21 years of the evolution of the Cynefin model. While I was hoping for some more insight into how people have applied the model, I appreciated most of the stories and the connections people made to using the Cynefin concepts in a wide variety of applications.
Clarke Ching has posted a chapter of his ever-in-beta book on Agile / TOC in software developmetnt. His comments ring true and remind me of things that Dave Snowden talks about frequently.
Thoughts inspired by a Clay Shirky keynote talk from 2003.
Bill Dettmer has a new article on how management tools fit into the Cynefin framework. This builds on ideas I've heard directly from Dave Snowden as well as those discussed elsewhere by people interested in Cynefin as applied to various approaches.
Nancy White is going to be on a panel discussing The Future of KM at the GK3 conference next month. She's got some entertaining seed questions and is looking for some input.
Compare these quotes. In reading this Ancient Chinese Proverb thanks to Lauchlan Mackinnon, I could help think of Dave Snowden's take on sharing knowledge.
David Snowden has dropped Cynefin for Cognitive Edge, and he has started a blog. It will be interesting to see where he goes with this form of communication.
The classic problem of knowledge management is that most knowledge is tacit / implicit, but KM Systems want us to get things written out and "into the system." But getting things into the open has value in itself.