This is a lovely gift to our Premium Members – recordings from a rich series of 11 #Cynefin Retreats since the first Retreat in Snowdonia in 2017. Thank you, Elmi Bester, for your assistance. Members can now access the recordings & and reflections in Our Haunt 🤜 https://members.thecynefin.co/news-events/post/2024-cynefin-retreats-and-now-available-the-retreat-collection-of-37GKjo57oPgIUWT?utm_source=MBR-FB-NOV&utm_medium=MBR-FB-NOV&utm_campaign=MBR-FB-NOV&utm_id=MBR-FB-NOV If you are not yet a member, […]

We have a fantastic opportunity for teams who want to join our Agile Development Cohort. We are looking for teams who are ready to take on a collaborative exploration of complexity and sensemaking in the Agile space. We still have a few available spots for teams to be part of our small (<10) cohort. This

We’re looking forward to our next Meetup with our members in our series on the 3As – Assemblages, Affordances, and Agency. We’ll continue to explore these 3As in the context of Estuarine Mapping, and how we can work with these concepts in practical and tangible ways. With the 3A’s we have a perspective that helps

Dave Snowden: Its always a pleasure to teach in Latin America even with simultaneous translation (and its takes 30% longer to say something in Portugese than English and the Welsh speak English 30% faster as well). I think one of the reasons is that, unlike Anglo-Saxon audiences they are happy to go with the flow

It’s day one at KM world in Washington DC and the Cynefin team are off to a flying start with not one, but three workshops! First off, Beth Smith and Ellie Snowden are facilitating a Cynefin favourite, Future Backwards. In this fun method, participants benefit from the oral history of an organisation, from multiple perspectives.

Dave Snowden always emphasises the need for numerous small projects instead of one big project, either focused on resolving immediate issues or changing the substrate or energy gradient of the system. One of his quotes about #complexsystems is, “The only way to scale a #complex system is by decomposition to the lowest level of coherent

“Estuarine mapping” The approach overall is based on three key aspects of working with #complex systems and #organizationaldevelopment : 🌟 Initiating and monitoring micro-nudges, lots of small projects rather than one big project, so that success and failure are both (non-ironically) opportunities. 🌟 Understanding where we are and starting journeys with a sense of direction