Periodic Table of Frameworks · Decision · Room
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5 parts
Cynefin
Dave Snowden
You want a decision that fits the kind of problem you are in. The problem is you brought a checklist into a fire, or a brainstorm into a recipe. Five domains. Name which one the room is in. Skip it and you will act like the last meeting you survived. Name it and the next move is allowed to be a different kind of move.
Unordered
Ordered
Complex
Probe, sense, respond.
Complicated
Sense, analyze, respond.
Chaotic
Act, sense, respond.
Clear
Sense, categorize, respond.
Disorder
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In one line
A room is in one of five: clear, complicated, complex, chaotic, or disorder. The move that works in one will wreck the others.
Use this on a room. It answers: How do you decide?
How this talks to the others
Leads into
Six Thinking HatsName the domain, then pick a hat. Six hats in disorder is six conversations about the wrong kind of problem.
Pushes against
GROWGROW assumes the world will sit still for Goal-Reality-Options-Will. Cynefin says some rooms are fires. They disagree about whether a sitting is allowed yet.
Start here, then
Iceberg modelName the domain before you look under. Digging for structure in chaos is how you miss the fire.
Leads into
OODAThe domain tells you which way the loop runs. Chaos is Act first. Clear is Observe until the recipe is obvious.
Seminars