SenseMaker, Algorithms and AI
In a world where algorithms and AI are hot topics, we at The Cynefin Co regularly get asked, “What algorithms or AI does SenseMaker® use to analyse the stories?” One of the key differentiators and...
View ArticleSidecasting – a summary
I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were on the wing, And moth-like stars were flickring...
View ArticleRisk Matrix – first outing
I’ve been spending a fair amount of time over the last month stabilising the current version of Estuarine Mapping ready for the Hexi kit version, but I have also been looking at some of the work that...
View ArticleTo Preserve Heritage: Local attitudes towards the preservation of wooden...
What do people’s feelings towards the wooden buildings they live in and around have to do with property development now and in the future? Quite a lot. Before the rise of ubiquitous concrete, glass and...
View ArticleKnowledge Summit Dublin
So, Monday and Tuesday of this week were devoted to the first edition of the Knowledge Summit in Dublin, with a strong AI theme, a pattern we saw last year at KM World. It was held at Trinity College...
View ArticleBarbershops …
I’m taking a five-day break between conferences to catch up with my good friends Paul and Brenda, walking in the Mournes. Yesterday, it rained, and the Mourne Mountains were swathed in clouds. The...
View ArticleNew paper strengthens evidence for why intervening on the environment is so...
This blog post was created through the joined efforts of Beth Smith and Anna Panagiotou. If you are following our work and social media, you have probably heard about Estuarine Mapping. Estuarine...
View ArticlePatterns and patterning
Some years ago, I picked up Jeremy Lent’s book The Patterning Instinct: A cultural history of humanity’s search for meaning largely based on the title and the fact that it had an introduction by...
View ArticlePatterning curiosity
Peder Söderlind pinged me on a LinkedIn post, which picked up a fair following, in part because of its very intriguing opening sentence: Doing my best to be a bit braver and trust my own thinking. The...
View ArticlePatterns as, and via actants
Actant, a significant term in our work, is not just about humans but takes a broader concept of agency. Its origin lies in Greimas’s structural semantics and narrative theory, and it builds on early...
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