Category: Cunefin
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Parallel diversity as a problem solving method
Dave Snowden talks about trios, a concept similar to pair programming where a small diverse team of three people explore ideas and make prototypes. A trio links roles in inter-threaded patterns to see what is possible. The trio needs to have diversity across specialisms and generations to increase the likelihood of novel ideas. The idea…
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Looking at South Africa’s state owned enterprises through a complexity lens
I recently completed the Cynefin Foundations online course. The Cynefin framework is useful to make sense of what is happening in South African state-owned enterprises. The Cynefin framework presents five domains: disorder, chaos, complex, complicated, and obvious. Organizations, or parts of it, can exist in any of these domains and each one requires a different…