Dave Snowden seminar in Boston
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.
This seminar will be run in Boston on 10 November. 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.
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Accreditation courses in Canberra and Toronto
If you want to discover practical and pragmatic ways to manage under conditions of uncertainty, understand the power of business narrative and discover new ways to use human networks, then this course will provide you with the introductory theory and associated open source Cognitive Edge methods.
The two-day workshop is focused on groups and individuals that are interested in developing capabilities with Cognitive Edge methods for their organisations and clients. The methods effectively provide internal or front-line employee groups an ability to develop their own solutions to challenging organisational issues. Attendance provides the option of then joining the Cognitive Edge Network as an accredited practitioner.
These courses are the final two public courses scheduled in 2009:
The full list of courses offered by Cognitive Edge can be viewed here.
Additionally, a single day focused on SenseMaker™ for practitioners has been scheduled to follow all four courses: in Canberra on 25 November and Toronto on 27 November. The two courses can be booked together or separately – there is an attractive price offered for participants in both courses.
Network gatherings are being organised in all four locations to accompany the courses – email Dawn for details.
Accreditation Course Outline:
- Day 1: Strategy & Complexity
- Day 2: Narrative & Project Design
- Day 3: Successfully designing & delivering a SenseMaker project (optional day for accredited practitioners)
Discounts available:
- For Practitioners who would like a refresher on CE methods, we are offering 30% discount off the course fees.
- If you enrol a group of three or more people, one additional person gets to attend the course free of charge.
- Academics and students who haven't been accredited will receive a 15% discount on course fees.