Wednesday Nick Milton in his blog listed these five “rules.” They made a lot of sense to me and so I am reprinting them:
There is a lot of pushback in the KM world about the term “best practice”. In the discussion groups, we hear people saying “we don’t believe in best practice”. Respected KM gurus [...]
“Joinery” refers both to the craft of a joiner, someone who makes things by joining together pieces of wood, and to the premises from which the craft is practiced.
Snowden
Five rules to reinvent Best Practices from Nick Milton
How our thinking is “entrained”
David Snowden talks about how our thinking/doing is entrained. I wasn’t familiar with the word when I first heard it used in a podcast of one of his presentations. I think he’s getting at how we have habitual patterns of thinking, of conceiving without considering the assumptions we have taken for granted. It is like [...]
Commercial use of Cognitive Edge methodology
Yesterday I got a tweet from David Snowden with two links on a new implementation of the SenseMaker software and related methodology of narrative collection. The Brook Besor Consultants have been gearing ourselves up for using both in our evaluation work on the NIH grant to Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach.
The software was designed originally [...]
A way of thinking about values, themes & archetypes
Some of us have difficulty wrapping our minds around the values, themes and archetypes extracted from the narrative fragments collected during anecdote circles with the Cognitive Edge methodology. Why? For what reason? What purpose do they serve?
It just occurred to me that an analogy with an term from complexity science might help. It has helped [...]
What does training look like in complex environments?
This morning reading my emails from overnight I found a link to a post by Harold Jarche. He uses David Snowden’s Cynefin Framework as an illustration. I thought I would share it with some of my colleagues and wrote an email about it to them. After I was done, the email look like a blog [...]
Brief explanation of narrative fragments given in SenseMaker ad
One of David Snowden early, but recent, videos is this rather extended ad on the Sensemaker suite for analyzing “narrative fragments.” We saw what the software will do when we were in Raleigh at the end of October for the Cognitive Edge course.
Listen to the intro to get an idea of the value and usefulness [...]
Snowden’s “birthday party” story now on youtube
A version of David Snowden’s birthday party story illustrating the differences among chaotic, ordered and complex systems is on YouTube. It isn’t the most compete rendition of the story but serves as a good introduction to some key terms of complexity theory. For a fuller account listen to one of his podcasts on the Cognitive [...]
Apple’s mac & os x used by cognitive-edge folks
Last week at this time I and a bunch of us were winging our way to Raleigh for a three-day Cognitive Edge course on complexity and sense-making. The company has been started by a couple of ex-IBMers and does extensive contract consulting with large corporations and governments. They work with our defense and agriculture departments, [...]
Been re-reading Ramalingam, et al’s Exploring the science of complexity…
to identify some measures and descriptive information we could use and gather for an evaluation project. Measurement methods such as sociograms— to see who is connected to who, particularly in terms of feedback and feedback processes; social network analysis (SNA)— to look at possible emergent properties of the networks; questions to use in structured [...]
Education today: Do we serve every student the same platter of food, or do they take a tray, go thru the line and make their own platter?
Education planners and teachers need to adapt to the new fragmented nature of information and communication. That’s education planners and teachers in K-12, post secondary and higher ed, and churches.
From George Siemens’ current newsletter:
Dave Snowden’s recent post on emergent meaning or prescription reflects what many of us have been saying about education: “new approaches that [...]