Cynefin

The Cynefin framework (/kəˈnɛvɪn/ kuh-NEV-in)[1] is a conceptual framework used to aid decision-making.[2] Created in 1999 by Dave Snowden when he worked for IBM Global Services, it has been described as a "sense-making device".[3][4] Cynefin is a Welsh word for habitat.[5] Cynefin offers five decision-making contexts or "domains"—'clear' (known as 'simple' until 2014, then 'obvious' until being recently renamed),[6] 'complicated', 'complex', 'chaotic', and 'confusion'—that help managers to identify how they perceive situations and make sense of their own and other people's behaviour.[a] The framework draws on research into systems theory, complexity theory, network theory and learning theorys.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin

• Steve Holt compares Cynefin to the theory of constraints. The theory of constraints argues that most systems outcomes are limited by certain bottlenecks (constraints) and improvements away from these constraints tend to be counterproductive because they just place more strain on a constraint. Holt places the theory of constraints within the Cynefin framing by arguing the theory of constraints moves from complex situations to complicated ones by using abductive reasoning and intuition then logic to creating an understanding, before creating a probe to test understanding.
  • “Perhaps the greatest potential for confusion in comparing TOC and Cynefin is reconciling the existence of Complex Adaptive Systems attached to the Cynefin Complex domain with a concept that Goldratt called ‘Inherent Simplicity.”
• Firestone and McElroy argue that Cynefin is a model of sensemaking rather than a full model of knowledge management and processing.

does

• 'chaotic' ~ wicked?
• 'complex'/complexity ~ ill-structured
• 'complicated', 'clear' ~ well-structured?

2006-09-06-SnowdenComplexSystemsUnpredictable

http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/cynefin-and-infinite-games-2316

Yi-Tan call http://www.personalinfocloud.com/2010/12/yi_tan_with_dave_snowden.html