Follow the links below to register.
Accreditation Course: http://www.cognitive-edge.com/eventsdetail.php?eventid=274
SenseMaker® workshop: http://www.cognitive-edge.com/eventsdetail.php?eventid=275
]]>The "faculty" for CALM Alpha consists of:
CALM Alpha was born out of an exploratory meeting held in Almens, Switzerland between a group of like-minded thinkers, researchers and practitioners in Social Complexity, Agile and Lean. The intent was to explore ways of growing the application of Complexity Science to meet the challenges facing modern organisations and in particular, those adopting Agile and Lean ways of working.
The goal of the faculty is to grow a community of thinkers, practitioners and researchers who further the application of Complexity Science in software development as well as in the larger organisations. We want to use the experience of the real-world application of principles based on validated theory to help both theory and practice co-evolve.
The CALM Alpha two-day event is the first step towards establishing that community.
The faculty will present our current understanding and experiences of the relationship between Agile and Lean practice, and Complexity. We will also open up issues and opportunities to more tightly link Agile/Lean initiatives with other aspects of an organisation, such as HR Policy and Strategy. Some of the material will be theoretical and some practical. We expect to be challenged, heckled, as well as validated. At the end of the event, we hope to have directions for further research, further events, the seeds of a curriculum and also the basis for a new community.
We hope you'll join us.
Conference fees
Early-bird places: £320.00 (plus VAT) per person until the end of January
Standard places: £650.00 (plus VAT)
To register and pay for this event, please go to www.calm.eventbrite.com.
Additional details
All are welcome, but places are limited.
Our aim is to attract as many like-minded thinkers as possible. On this basis we reserve the right to limit the number of applicants per organisation.
The event is residential, and meals (lunch, dinner, breakfast, lunch) and one night's accommodation are included in the price of the ticket. We expect attendees to stay overnight; if additional nights are needed, they will have to be self-arranged. As this is a first event we've done our best to keep prices as low as possible.
]]>Cognitive Edge is pleased to announce the following classes being hosted in Washington DC, Dallas and London:
1) Cognitive Edge Practitioner Accreditation
2) Cognitive Edge SenseMaker® Workshop
1) Cognitive Edge Practitioner Accreditation
The two-day Practitioner Accreditation course provides practical ways to manage under conditions of uncertainty, understand the power of business narrative and discover new ways to use human networks. Attendance at the course provides accreditation and membership to the Cognitive Edge Practitioners' Network. The SenseMaker® workshop will be free for all participants who attend the 2-day Accreditation Course. Please indicate in the 'Extra Information' box if you are attending the SenseMaker® workshop.
Accreditation course information is here:
http://www.cognitive-edge.com/accreditation.php
Register for Accreditation here (dates stated below are not inclusive of the SenseMaker® workshop):
2) Cognitive Edge SenseMaker® Workshop
The one-day SenseMaker® workshop is focused on teaching how to configure, sell and interpret narrative projects that use the Cognitive Edge SenseMaker® software. In each location, it directly follows the Accreditation class (above). We recommend that participants from the two-day Accreditation Course also attend the SenseMaker® day if they would like to run narrative projects using the software. To attend the SenseMaker® Workshop (and not the preceding 2-day Accreditation Course which makes it free), there will be a small charge to cover room hire and catering. The charge will be 150 dollars, pounds or euros depending on the unit of your local currency. We have a capacity of 24 in these classes, priority given to those who are booking into the prior 2-day Accreditation Course.
SenseMaker® Workshop course information is here:
http://www.cognitive-edge.com/sensemaker.php
Register for the workshop here:
Special Offer to Cognitive Edge Practitioners who are Independant Consultants
If you are an Independent Consultant within the Cognitive Edge Practitioner Network and you bring two paying customers to the full 3-day course, you attend free of charge so that you can accompany your guests and host them there. In order to process this you'll need to have the two individuals buy the course on the Cognitive Edge website and have them include the following text in the information box (or similar, mentioning your name and email address)
"My attendance is being hosted by [First Name] [Surname], and his/her contact email is [email]."
]]>If you only wish to attend the SenseMaker® workshop (and not the preceding 2-day Accreditation Course), there will be a small charge to cover room hire and catering. The charge will be 150 dollars, pounds or euros depending on the unit of your local currency. We have a capacity of 24 in these classes; priority given to those who are booking into the prior 2-day Accreditation Course.
]]>This course is focused primarily on helping Accredited Network Practitioners acquire the skills necessary to design signifiers for a short-term SenseMaker® project from the ground up, which allows them to get exactly what they want.
For time-strapped Practitioners a key advantage of this online course is the streamlined modularity of the content, which allows for a higher rate of completion per module. Video, slides and other resources run on the Moodle platform, making the course more interactive not only between student and facilitator, but student and student and student and course.
This course will run for four weeks starting from the date shown below. You can review the course outline here (with registration at the bottom of the page) or go straight to registration here:
Please note that the price is now USD 299 (early-bird discounts not applicable), and the maximum number of participants is set at 30. Each class lasts 4 calendar weeks and is available online 24x7 during that time.
]]>Complexity theory offers a real opportunity to transform governance by doing more with less, integrating strategic intent with operational practice, and lies at the heart of the Cynefin framework, which provides leaders a typology of contexts to guide their decision making.
The one-day Cynefin Seminar, led by Dave Snowden and based on his award-winning work, is designed to introduce participants to radical new ways to:
This seminar will take place in the following cities:
Accredited members of the Cognitive Edge Network are entitled to a 15% discount – please contact Dawn Lincoln for information.
]]>Professionals in the private and public sectors seeking to apply the Cognitive Edge methods for leading group meetings and workshops, stimulating innovation and informal networks, and making decisions in situations of high uncertainty will find the deeper exposure in these courses immensely valuable.
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Cognitive Edge Accreditation
Cognitive Edge has accredited in excess of 1,000 Practitioners in its methods over the last five years. Many of these attendees have gone on to create innovative interventions that have led to positive changes within their organizations.
The following Accreditation courses are remaining in 2011:
To keep tabs on course dates in 2012, look here.
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SenseMaker® Workshop
The one-day SenseMaker® workshop is focused on teaching how to design, sell and interpret narrative projects that use the Cognitive Edge SenseMaker® software. We recommend that participants from the two-day Accreditation Course also attend the SenseMaker® day if they would like to run narrative projects using the software.
The following workshops are scheduled:
To keep tabs on SenseMaker® workshop dates, look here.
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Discounts are available and listed for each course where applicable.
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Cognitive Edge Accreditation & the SenseMaker® Workshop
Cognitive Edge courses are focused on providing participants with a pragmatic sense-making toolset for managing complexity and harnessing narrative. Professionals in the private and public sectors seeking to apply the Cognitive Edge methods for leading group meetings and workshops, stimulating innovation and informal networks, and making decisions in situations of high uncertainty will find the deeper exposure in these courses immensely valuable.
Cognitive Edge Accreditation
Cognitive Edge has accredited in excess of 1,000 Practitioners in its methods over the last five years. Many of these attendees have gone on to create innovative interventions that have led to positive changes within their organisations.
The following Accreditation courses are currently scheduled for early 2012:
A full listing of course dates can be found here.
SenseMaker® Workshop
The one-day SenseMaker® workshop is focused on teaching how to design, sell and interpret narrative projects that use the Cognitive Edge SenseMaker® software. We recommend that participants from the two-day Accreditation Course also attend the SenseMaker® day if they would like to run narrative projects using the software.
The following workshops are scheduled:
A full listing of workshop dates can be found here.
]]>Seminar details http://www.cognitive-edge.com/cynefin-seminar.php
Registration http://www.cognitive-edge.com/eventsdetail.php?eventid=259
Additionally, for members of ACS we are offering a 15% discount off the Australia seminars – simply add a comment when you make a booking at the links below.
Register for Canberra: http://www.cognitive-edge.com/eventsdetail.php?eventid=235 **LIMITED SEATS LEFT**
Register for Brisbane: http://www.cognitive-edge.com/eventsdetail.php?eventid=238 **ONE SEAT LEFT**
]]>Complexity theory offers a real opportunity to transform governance by doing more with less, integrating strategic intent with operational practice, and lies at the heart of the Cynefin framework, which provides leaders a typology of contexts to guide their decision making.
The one-day Cynefin Seminar, led by Dave Snowden and based on his award-winning work, is designed to introduce participants to radical new ways to:
This seminar will take place in the following cities:
Melbourne, 10 November 2011 **now closed**
Brisbane, 23 November 2011 **4 seats left**
Accredited members of the Cognitive Edge Network are entitled to a 15% discount - please contact Dawn Lincoln for information.
Please forward this information to any one you think might be interested, we and apologise if you have received more than one notification of this seminar.
]]>This course is focused primarily on helping Accredited Network Practitioners acquire the skills necessary to design signifiers for a short-term SenseMaker® project from the ground up, which allows them to get exactly what they want.
For time-strapped Practitioners a key advantage of this online course is the streamlined modularity of the content, which allows for a higher rate of completion per module. Video, slides and other resources run on the Moodle platform, making the course more interactive not only between student and facilitator, but student and student and student and course.
This course will run for four weeks starting from the date shown below. You can review the course outline here (with registration at the bottom of the page) or go straight to registration here:
NB. Each class lasts 4 calendar weeks and is available online 24x7 during that time.
]]>Follow the links below to register; early bird discounts apply.
Accreditation Course: http://www.cognitive-edge.com/eventsdetail.php?eventid=257
SenseMaker® workshop: http://www.cognitive-edge.com/eventsdetail.php?eventid=258
Snowden and Boone's article won the Academy of Management award in 2008 as the best practitioner paper. The paper describes the Cynefin framework and will be distributed to all participants in advance of the seminar, which expands on the various ideas and practices in the paper. This session will address the approaches that can be taken when dealing with high levels of uncertainty and ambiguity that result from unexpected organizational, community and population shifts.
Agenda topics for this once-off event in Ottawa include:
• What is complex adaptive systems theory and how does it differ in human systems to those found in nature?
• Complex adaptive systems theory in the context of risk and uncertainty
• The Cynefin framework, understanding when to use traditional versus complexity-informed approaches
• Re-thinking citizen engagement and its role in evidence-based policy
Dave Snowden has pioneered an approach to social systems based on natural science. In addition to holding various teaching positions at Universities around the world, he was Director of a British government research programme on emergence and a member of a National Science Foundation panel on complexity research. Dave is also actively engaged in a series of government and industry projects applying complexity theory to intractable problems and is currently Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer for Cognitive Edge Pte Ltd.
To register for the event, please click here.
]]>Follow the links below to register; early bird discounts apply.
Accreditation Course: http://www.cognitive-edge.com/eventsdetail.php?eventid=255
SenseMaker® workshop: http://www.cognitive-edge.com/eventsdetail.php?eventid=254