The meeting is open for any and all Cognitive Edge Network members and is intended to focus on practicalities and opportunities to use Cognitive Edge methods and systems in client organisations.
The content of the last gathering included looking at a recent SenseMaker® project and the pitfalls and opportunities it provided and discussions about potential collaborative arrangements. The proceedings of the day were captured in blog posts by Ron Donaldson and Ton Zylstra.
The venue will be finalised in early September and so need an indication of numbers of participants. If you'd like to join the meeting, please let Anne Wilson at Narrate know on anne@narrate.co.uk.
]]>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.
The course is being offered across the world in the second half of 2010:
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 immediately follow all the above courses. The two courses can be booked together or separately – there is an attractive price offered to participants who register in both courses.
Network gatherings will be organised to accompany all these courses – please email Dawn for details to come along to meet local practitioners.
Accreditation Course Outline:
Discounts available:
Cognitive Edge recently released a short video in which Dave introduces the Cynefin Framework with a brief explanation of its origin and evolution and a detailed discussion of its architecture and function. This video has been posted to YouTube and is available for download here.
]]>The third, now posted for download, is Dave Snowden’s Narrative Research, which lays the foundation for the use of narrative research and inquiry methods not only in the project but broadly in the field of research and consultancy. It is an invaluable resource for academics, professionals and laypeople alike.
To recap – the first article posted for download, Complex Dynamical Systems Theory , authored by Dr Alicia Juarrero, gave an introduction to the field of complexity theory and the second, Signifier Mapping by Dr Beth Meriam, principle anthropologist engaged on the project, documented the signifier design process.
]]>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.
The course is being offered across the world in the second half of 2010:
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 immediately follow all the above courses. The two courses can be booked together or separately – there is an attractive price offered to participants who register in both courses.
Network gatherings will be organised to accompany all these courses – please email Dawn for details to come along to meet local practitioners.
Accreditation Course Outline:
Discounts available:
Central to this transformation is the need to understand, straight from the narratives of eduators, what constitutes ‘breakthrough learning’ and what supports and scales it.
In using SenseMaker® to gather and analyse narratives from teachers and principals, Stupski hopes to provide a way to empower teachers around the country by providing them a voice in the crowded debate around US education reform. The results will support the research component of Stupski’s broader learning phase, the intention of which is to co-design learning initiatives with partners and initial prototypes of a knowledge platform.
For more information, please contact Troy Ruemping of the Stupski Foundation or Michael Cheveldave of Cognitive Edge.
]]>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 one-day executive 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 be run in the following cities:
The full list of courses offered by Cognitive Edge can be viewed here.
Accredited members of the Cognitive Edge Network are entitled to a 15% discount – please contact Dawn for information.
Limited seats available.
]]>Cognitive Edge is working in partnership with the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM) at CSC to offer its Accreditation course in Singapore. The next course will be offered over 15-17 September this year.
The course will be tailored to the challenges and opportunities of the Public Sector in Singapore and provide participants with an opportunity to work together during the workshop to gain a deeper exposure to Cognitive Edge methods for stimulating innovation and informal networks, strategic planning and enhanced decision-making, and action planning in situations of high uncertainty. Additionally they will gain access to the Cognitive Edge Practitioner Network as accredited practitioners and join a community of like-minded practitioners in the Singapore Public Service.
The Civil Service College (CSC) Singapore is the central learning institution for the Singapore Public Service, and plays a pivotal role in developing people for a first class Public Service. It is a Statutory Board under the Public Service Division (PSD), Prime Minister’s Office. CSC offers a comprehensive suite of programmes that build strategic capacity in the Public Service, focusing particularly on core areas in Public Governance, Leadership, Public Administration, Personal Development and Effectiveness, and Global Orientation. CSC works strategically with Public Sector agencies to reinforce the core values of the Singapore Public Service and equip public officers with the knowledge, skills and expertise to perform their roles efficiently, effectively and professionally.
]]>It is not often that the results of a project are released to the public domain, however in this case the WAO is an exception.
With their kind permission we have linked to the published report on their website. General questions about the project and report may be directed to Chris Bolton of the WAO or Jules Yim of Cognitive Edge.
Before joining Cognitive Edge, Laurie was the Senior Research Associate for Shore Communications. Previously, she was the co-founder of Grandview Insight and has worked for SilverPlatter, Thomson Publishing, Mosby Consumer Health, News Corp’s Internet Unit, and the University at Albany.
In 2008, Laurie was accredited as a Cognitive Edge Practitioner and is one of the most experienced SenseMaker® practitioners in the Cognitive Edge Network, having completed five market research projects using SenseMaker®.
Laurie will be based in Albany, New York and can be reached on laurie.webster@cognitive-edge.com.
Welcome Laurie!
]]>The University of Surrey has an international reputation for preparing and enabling students to make this transition into the professional world through a curriculum that involves them in completing a year in business or industry. While it has a wealth of information on the outcomes of the experience and some data on the midpoint of their experience, knowledge about how students experience and manage the transition from university to work is lacking.
The University is using SenseMaker® to gather and make sense of transition narratives. Armed with this knowledge the intention is to develop better guidance to prepare students and refine practices for preparing and supporting them during this important transition.
It is anticipated that one of the benefits will be to feedback the results of the survey quickly to students so that they can compare their own experience with the other students on placement and perhaps stimulate action where experiences are less than satisfactory.
For more information, please contact Prof Norman Jackson at the University of Surrey.
]]>Before joining Cognitive Edge, Zhen worked as a freelance professional. She has worked with government, NGO and corporate clients, taking on independent research, writing and lecturing duties. Zhen received her training from the National University of Singapore, where she completed her Bachelor of Social Science (with Honours). She then went onto pursue her Masters of Social Science (Sociology), on the University Research Scholarship program.
Zhen will be based in Singapore and can be reached on zhen.goh@cognitive-edge.com.
Welcome Zhen!
The fifth video to be released is The Cynefin Framework – it can be found in the Videos section of our website.
In this video, Dave Snowden introduces the Cynefin Framework with a brief explanation of its origin and evolution and a detailed discussion of its architecture and function. In addition to posting to our site, we've also posted a version of this video to YouTube.
We've been working with Mike Carroll from Cognia in Australia to produce these videos, leveraging Mike's 20+ years of experience in film and TV. Mike's been a member of the Cognitive Edge Network since July 2008. More videos are planned to be released through this collaboration and will be announced here.
]]>A team of scientists from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Southern Cross University (SCU), and from the USA (the Southeast Climate Consortium) are hoping to find answers to these questions through an innovative application of recently developed methods for analysing the stories that people tell each other everyday; over a cup of coffee, in a lift or around the dinner table. Do people in different countries or regions have similar or very different experiences of what helps or hinders their ability to adapt? Using Cognitive Edge's SenseMaker® suite in conjunction with well established methods from social psychology and cognitive anthropology we seek to explore patterns in the stories people tell of their adaptation experiences. The information will be used to inform those keen to enhance the adaptive capacity of societies around the world.
This project is being facilitated by Emerging Options Pty Ltd.
For more information, please contact Tim Lynam at the CSIRO or Chris Fletcher at Emerging Options.
The criteria for this award specified that it would go to "a KM expert who, in their work, has promoted KM as a scientific discipline, thus enhancing the profile of KM in both the academic and business communities".
Dave also presented a keynote at the same conference, titled "Life is uncertain, live with it" – the slides for that presentation can be found here.
Two other members of the Cognitive Edge Network were recipients of awards at KM UK 2010 – David Gurteen, for "Lifetime Achievement Award for Services to KM" and Bonnie Cheuk and team from ERM for "Best KM Initiative or Implementation in a Professional Services Firm".
Congratulations to Dave, David, Bonnie and the other award winners on the day.
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