Works
- Cynefin: A Sense of Time and Space, the Social Ecology of Knowledge Management, in Charles Despres and Daniele Chauvel, eds., Knowledge Horizons, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000
- The New Dynamics of Strategy: Sense-Making in a Complex and Complicated World, IBM Systems Journal 42(3), with Cynthia F. Kurtz, 2003
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A consultant who began the Cynefin framework at IBM Global Services in 1999. Cynefin sorts situations into domains (clear, complicated, complex, and chaotic, with confusion between them) by the relation of cause and effect, and matches each with a way of acting, such as probing with safe-to-fail experiments in the complex domain.