Talk:Cynefin

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I believe the Cynefin organisation is in the process of changing its name to Cognitive Edge. Nick.inglis 04:20, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Correct, but the Cynefin page is primarily about the method and that seems to holds its name. --Hvgard 13:16, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I think the editors are right to say that this sounds a bit like an advertisement at the moment. Would it not make more sense for this to be a description of the Cynefin Framework (in its generic form a strategy framework) and its use on KM and other areas. A separate page could references Cognitive Edge (or just a side reference to www.Cognitive-edge.com)?--Snowded 21:30, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I was going to mention that as well. There's no problem with describing aframework and organisation, but at the moment there seems to be far more promotional stuff than informational content.

On another note, the article refers to your framework with a link that describes a framework as

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In software development, a framework is a defined support structure in which another software project can be organized and developed. A framework may include support programs, code libraries, a scripting language, or other software to help develop and glue together the different components of a software project.

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Are you sure you mean to refer to a software development framwork? I would have assumed that you'd have a broader KM methodology/framework. HTH LMackinnon 02:23, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

to be strictly accurate its a decision making framework although its origins are in KM. It's main citations relate to its role as a sense-making framework in the context of situational assessment abnd decision making. Its not a software development framework that I know of!

This is probably advertising if no one else uses the Cynefin framework (other than David's latest company). Jackvinson 21:28, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

its fairly extensivly used and cited both academic and practitioner. However I didn't put up the entry or request it's up to those participating if they want the entry and/or want it changed. Writing a revised article at a high level without advertising is fairly easy but I am not sure its necessary--Snowded 21:35, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I've cleansed the page as much as I think is necessary. It still mentions Dave's company, but that doesn't matter I think. The Wikipedia is full of companies and other commercial stuff. Think GM, Ferrari, movies, etc. Cognitive-Egde is just one of the the worlds future large enterprises :-) Hvgard 18:11, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I have made various changes and inserted a picture of the framework. By skills are not up to making the image smaller, or getting the text to justify around it so if anyone can please do! --Snowded 06:23, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Honestly, I think that last para was just too much advertising and I have taken the liberty to remove it. If "Cognitive-Edge" is inextricably linked to "Cynefin" then the entire article should go too, but if "Cynefin", as stated above, is a legitimate open framework that has been referenced academically by someone other than the original author (and initially I take the statements above at face value, then the article remains legit, but those external references should likely be cited. ThreePD 02:04, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree with you on that - I thought about deleting it myself. I have reinstated a part, namely that it is open source and additional material is avaialable without restriction other than creative commons. I have mentioned some of the other uses and will look up the citations if someone else does not find them first (and I will appeal on the blog for others to put them in) --Snowded 10:47, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

this seems to be the work of a single person. The reference is only to one paper. Another other support?

There are several papers that cite the model and it has been used in several PhDs. Some of that material is on the referneced web site. Most models and frameworks come from one person by the way --Snowded 08:07, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleaned

I've cleaned this up a bit, and formatted it correctly - hope it helps! Hawker Typhoon 23:54, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

great job - thanks --Snowded 21:22, 4 May 2007 (UTC)