CYNEFIN BOOK

General info

Coherent Heterogeneity

Bounded applicability

Meaning "Place of your multiple belongings"

Its elements

3 kinds of systems

Ordered systems

Complex systems

Chaotic systems

Some useful terms

Abduction

Anthro-complexity

Aporia

Coherence

Constraint

Complex facilitation

Disintermediation

Epistemic justice

Epistemology

Exaptive

Feedforward

Hermeneutical injustice

Heuristic

Liminality

Ontology

Phenomenology

Polymorphic

Premature convergence

Psychosocial work environment

Scaffolding

Sense-making

5 domains

4 liminal areas

How to use it

Sense-making

Inductive

Deductive

Abductive

Clear #

Complicated #

Complex

Chaotic

Confused

✅ Aporia: a state of aware confusion

🚫 To be confused but not know it's not advised

Exaptive practices

Good practices

Best practices

From Complex to Complicated

Iterative practices

From x to Clear

Establish Best Practice

Novel practices by accident

From x to Chaotic

From x to Confused (Aporetic)

Novel practices by design

Aporetic practices: deliberate creation of paradox
and puzzlement to get people thinking differently A way out from Chaos is to use Aporetic practices

Principles

Embrace messy coherence

Enable descriptive self-awareness and self-discovery

Attune to timing and flow

Chronos vs Kairos

Pattern entrainment

Knowledge management

Training (Clear)

Communities of Practices (Complicated)

Social processes (Complex)