The challenge of doing more with less is ever present in both the public and private sectors. In the 1980s the big idea was process management and re-engineering, replacing the functionally orientated structures of the preceding decades. Over the years those ideas have achieved significant results, but they no longer offer the opportunity for radical and progressive change and are in danger of becoming over extended and over complicated.
The Leading through Complexity seminar, led by Dave Snowden, is designed to introduce participants to radical news ways to:
- focus on sustainability, using the natural capabilities of customers, citizens and staff;
- shift from fail-safe design to a more flexible and adaptive process of safe-fail experiments leading to more resilient outcomes;
- use the distributed intelligence of workforces and markets to transform decision making and achieve long term effectiveness;
- see strategy as a constantly evolving articulation of emergent possibilities, shorting decision cycles, increasing robustness; and
- understand the new simplicity inherent in an ecological approach to management.
Seminars have been confirmed in:
- London (30 June)
- Seattle (16 July)
- Perth (27 July)
- Chicago (10 August)
- Boston (13 August)
- New York (14 August)
The full list of courses offered by Cognitive Edge can be viewed here.
Accredited members of the Cognitive Edge Network are entitled to a 20% discount – please contact Dawn for information.
Tutor
Dave Snowden is the founder and chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge. His work covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy, organisational decision making and decision making. He has pioneered a science based approach to organisations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience and complexity.
Well known for his work on the role of narrative and sense making, he is an entertaining speaker and a formidable realist, and one of the few thought leaders who can bring together the academic and practitioner perspectives into a single, comprehensible purview.
His Harvard Business Review cover article with Mary Boone A Leader's Framework for Decision-making was selected as the 2007 Best Practitioner Paper by the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management.