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Cynefin Centre

The Cynefin Centre
The Cynefin Centre is an international network that focuses on the application of complexity science to management and organisational practice. The Centre spun off from IBM in July 2004 and will be based in a network of academic institutions. At the heart of the Cynefin Centre is a distinction between ordered and unordered systems, and the consequent recognition that systems with fundamentally different qualities require the application of contextually differentiated methods for both diagnosis and intervention. The organisational structure and methods of the Cynefin Centre are based on the principles of social complexity.
The Cynefin Centre has three interlinked focus areas:
SOCIAL COMPLEXITY: helping to establish this new discipline, applying complexity science to human systems
OPEN SOURCE: the creation of an open source movement for consultancy practice and theory based on social complexity
DISTRIBUTED RESEARCH: development of trans-disciplinary research based on emergence, participation and co-evolution

In practice the Cynefin mission is achieved through a three stage life cycle focused on three application areas:
SENSE MAKING: distinguishing different types of system and thereby enabling the appropriate application of methods and tools
NETWORKS: understanding issues of human identity and interaction in their natural state and the stimulation of new networks
NARRATIVE: gathering, interpreting, representing and creating the narrative forms that pattern human interaction
Dave Snowden, a world-renowned thought leader in both complexity and narrative, is the founder and Director of the Centre. Christian Hauck, a world-unknown but multi-locally renowned thought-leader is somehow and somewhat related a member of the Centre, linking it with Novartis.

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http://www.christianhauck.net christianhauck@christianhauck.net