Since attending a course a week or so back I’m now an accredited Cognitive Edge Practitioner, which is an honour I’d hang next to the other degrees. And I’m not taking teh mickey there. CE practice is a highly interesting methodology that a colleague and I are discussing the applicability of in relation to our research and evaluation work. If it lives up to it’s promise, it could present some very useful data for our workplace.
But we’re not here to discuss work. I’m cogitating an idea about an area that wasn’t highly discussed in the CE accreditation, and will try to tease out a little further before putting it up here, and/or outlining it on the Cognitive Edge site.
CE is a method that simplifies understanding how leaders can and do make decisions in organisations. But it doesn’t appear to conceptualise the “time-dimension” of that decision-making process. I think there is a distinction process followed by leaders in all five of the areas the CE framework creates. This process is common to all leaderships, and only varies in the voracity of its application and the duration of it’s effects.
I’ll do a little more thinking/sketching, and then run it out for comment.
27 July, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Does it also conceptualise the “making sense” dimension? Because I’ve read this three times and I’m confused!
Perhaps I’m outside of the process paradigm.
27 July, 2008 at 7:52 pm
robyn, i believe the term is “jargon”, but you couldn’t possibly understand that [/patronisation]
27 July, 2008 at 9:55 pm
But more importantly – how was the catering?
28 July, 2008 at 6:51 am
Time is normally considered in respect of dynamic methods between the domains of Cynefin. Also some of the other methods (SNS for example) are about emergence. I’m interested to hear what decision process (I assume that was a typo and you did not mean distinction process) you think is in common across all domains. I’ll watch for developments!
29 July, 2008 at 12:24 am
I think many planning processes / methodologies / frameworks, et al, do not incorporate the ‘time-dimension’.
Interestingly enough I was involved in a workshop today where some of the frameworks being used, clearly did not have a time dimension.
Maybe I was more aware of it because I had read your post prior
That Cognitive Edge stuff does look interesting
29 July, 2008 at 7:03 am
yeah, a lot of “business process redesign” and other ideas only take into account how long their new methods will take to implement, but not how long the new organisation/ways will actually last…