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 …
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The best ideas come off the shop floor, and that is where they are most easily lost
Under project DESET, we have just finished a study that goes after something other than opinion. Instead of asking people what they think, we collected small changes that had already taken place in their companies. The method was SenseMaker, a narrative approach we have used often enough by now to trust. Twenty-five stories came in, …
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, …