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The Cynefin Company, formerly the Cognitive Edge, the Cynefin Centre, and the IBM Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity,1) offers the following Knowledge Management education and training opportunities:
Certification/Accreditation
- Making Sense … Gaining Cognitive Edge (two-day accreditation)
- Cognitive Edge Accreditation Program 2)
- Cynefin Practitioner Certification Program** 2)
Training
Courses/Seminars
- Cognitive Edge/Cynefin™ Practitioner Foundations
Cognitive Edge/Cynefin™ Practitioner Foundations Plus (2+1) – two-day Foundations course followed by a one-day extension course
— Cynefin in Action: Build, Embed and Sustain Change
— Innovation and Collaboration
Cognitive Edge/Cynefin™ Practitioner Advanced
The Cynefin Seminar – Navigating complexity in human systems
Leading through Complexity: A new simplicity)
Cognitive Edge Narrative Research: Linking Quantitative with Qualitative
Leading through Uncertainty
Knowledge, Sensemaking and Social Computing: The strategic use of social computing
Cynefin & sense-making (1-4 days)
>> Cynefin & Sense-Making – resilience, complexity, knowledge and narrative (4 days)
Creating and Leading a Resilient Safety Cultur
Cynefin & Policy
Dealing with Complex Problems
Making Sense of Safety
Cynefin™ Train-the-Trainer
Cynefin & Complexity Foundations
The Cynefin Framework for IT Leadership
The Resilient Organisation
Cognitive Edge (Cynefin) Accreditation (Certification) Approved Course (3 days, 4 days)
Complex Knowledge Masterclass – Complex Knowledge and the Dynamics of Learning Masterclass: An organic approach to knowledge strategy and mapping (first stage of certification from the Cynefin Center for Organizational Complexity)
SenseMaker® Foundations course
Learning SenseMaker® Design
Building Insights from SenseMaker® data
Moving from Insight to Action with SenseMaker®
How to build and test SenseMaker® Frameworks
An Introduction to Running SenseMaker® Projects
Online Courses/seminars
- Cynefin® Knowledge Mapping & Strategy Quickstart (5 months)
- Cynefin™ Foundations
- Communicate with Visuals
- SenseMaker® Signification Design – 4 week on-line Facilitator guided course to SenseMaker® Signification design
- Introduction to SenseMaker® Environment – self-paced introduction to SenseMaker® and how Cognitive Edge approaches narrative
Masterclasses
- Cynefin™ & Theory of Constraints
Navigate uncertainty: Strategy and innovation with Cynefin™ & Wardley Maps
Masterclass on Navigating Public Sector Challenges in a Complex World
Cynefin-Informed Agile Development
What’s next for Agile?
Practical Complexity
A new theory of change
Dealing with Complex Problems
Improving Public Policy in a Complex World
Workshops
- Cynefin Workshop for Agile Teams
Narrative research: Building and Running SenseMaker® Projects
Advanced Analytics
Leading an Agile Business
Cognitive Edge Advance Theory
Advanced Practitioner and Researcher Workshop
Cognitive Edge SenseMaker™ Workshop
Introduction to Cynefin
Measuring and Managing What Matters
Capturing The Knowledge of Staff Before They Leave
Complexity, Innovation & Risk Management
Introduction To Social Complexity
Strategies For Organizational Change
Programs
- Cynefin Centre Paradox of Culture programme
- Conflict and Continuity: Leadership under conditions of uncertainty
Webinars & Podcasts
Webinars
- 2020: Cynefin 21: celebrating 21 years (1999-2020)
- 2019: Complex Facilitation; Futures & Foresight; A Vector-Based Theory of Change; Weaving employee wellbeing into the fabric of our organisations to build resilience; A conversation about Risk & Resilience; Cynefin™ & Theory of Constraints
- 2018: A conversation with Dave – scaffolding, nudging & scaling
Podcasts
- Knowledge Management in projects
KM World 2016 Keynote
KM Australia 2014 – Keynote
KM UK 2014
KM Asia 2013 – Keynotes
KM World 2013 – Keynote: Human data v Big Data
ECKM 2013 – Knowledge Management & Sensemaking
KM Europe 2013
KM Asia 2012 – Keynotes
KM World 2012 – Closing Keynote
KM Asia 2010 – Keynote
HKKMS Conference 2010 – Keynote
Henley KM Forum Conference 2010
British Aerospace Knowledge Management
KM India 2009 – Keynote
KM Chicago 8/2009
KM Australia 2009
– Day 2
– Keynote
KCUK 2009
HKKMS Conference 2009 – Closing Keynote
KM Asia 2008 – Keynote on Social Computing
KM World 2008 – Closing Keynote
Knowledge Management, Kuala Lumpur June 2008
SLA Conference Seattle June 2008
KM Asia 2007 – Keynote
KM World 2007 – Keynote
KM Forum Boston 10/2007
Jon Husband’s interview with Dave Snowden on Web 2.0
Social Computing and Communities of Practice (CoP)
KM Australia 2007
– Communities of Practice (CoP) Workshop
– Keynote
Communities
- The Cynefin Company Network (was: Cognitive Edge Practitioners Network)
- Cynefin Melbourne Meetup Group
- Cynefin North America
- …
Conferences
- Complexity in Human Systems Symposium @ KM World
(a joint production of the Cynefin Centre for Organizational Complexity, Information Today, and Dysart & Jones Associates)- 2020: Complexity in Human Systems: Dealing with Chaos (CANCELLED)
- 2019: Complexity in Human Systems: Next Paradigm of Management?
- Cognitive Edge conference
- Inaugural Cynefin, Agile & Lean Mashup (CALM), 16-17 February 2012, Mortimer, United Kingdom
Meetings
Cynefin Centre Retreats
- Nov 2019: Foresight (Wales, UK)
Aug 2019: Decision making & perception (Canada)
Oct 2018: Cynefin Retreat: Economics and Value (Wales, UK)
Aug 2018: How we design for resilience – survival through constant change (Australia)
Jun 2018: Design & Emergence (Canada)
Apr 2018: Diversity & Inclusion (South Africa)
Mar 2018: Narrative in organisations (Ireland)
Cognitive Edge Network Gatherings
- Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America