Today an email arrived from The Cynefin Co: SenseMaker is turning 22. We have been using it for 10 of those years, from the study on business networking in the winter of 2015 to the one on weak signals this summer. In those five studies, companies told us about their own concrete cases and interpreted …
Category: Complexity
Looking at economic development through Helmuth von Moltke’s military glasses
21st century is the time of increased complexity and thus uncertainty. But that doesn’t mean that things weren’t complex and uncertain before. I have found an example of how the German army used to cope with the uncertainty which I would like to share: for others to read it and for me not to forget …
What is common to SenseMaker and (practical) shooting
If you ever need to explain SenseMaker to someone who does IPSC or likes to shoot, I believe this could be a nice comparison. SenseMaker is used to understand what is really going on and what could be done in a complex environment. One of the elements of SenseMaker, and probably the most interesting one, …