Cognitive Edge is focused on rejuvenating management practices to better equip organisations when addressing intractable problems or seizing new opportunities in uncertain and complex situations. Where traditional approaches have failed to deliver success, Cognitive Edge techniques enable the emergence of fresh and insightful solutions seen from multiple perspectives.

Cognitive Edge solutions, comprised of open source methods, original research and the Cognitive Edge SenseMaker® Software Suite, are delivered through the Cognitive Edge Network. The Cognitive Edge Network is a widely dispersed, cohesive Network of experienced professionals in private and public sector organisations from diverse disciplines with deep-rooted experience in both business and science. It includes academics and practitioners, in house and commercial consultants. Membership of the Network is attained through participation in an Accreditation programme.

The Cognitive Edge SenseMaker® Software Suite provides a set of tools designed to enable informed decision making in organisations using both structured and unstructured data in a common environment. The Suite is fully integrated with a coherent body of formal methods is the outcome of several years of research into human based organizational complexity, sensemaking, decision making, knowledge sharing and narrative.

COGNITIVE EDGE - CASE STUDIES

Project Name: Footprints in Time
Client: Australian Department of Families, Housing, Community Service and Indigenous Affairs, Australia
Completion Date: 2010-06-30
Consultant Name: Mark Schenk, Anecdote Pty Ltd
Consultant Email: mark@anecdote.com.au

Project Details:

Australia's Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children, Footprints in Time, is a four year project designed to provide policy makers with an unprecedented evidence base to improve the design and delivery of program and policy interventions for Indigenous children in their early years.

This landmark project will track the development of 2,200 children from locations representing Australia diverse urban, regional and remote outback conditions.

Footprints in Time has two main streams of inquiry: a comprehensive survey to be administered on an annual basis, and a narrative stream aimed at understanding how indigenous children and their families experience the early years of development and how these experiences change over time. 

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