11 Facts About Cynefin framework

Cynefin framework is a conceptual framework used to aid decision-making.

Cynefin framework offers five decision-making contexts or "domains"—clear, complicated, complex, chaotic, and confusion—that help managers to identify how they perceive situations and make sense of their own and other people's behaviour.

Idea of the Cynefin framework is that it offers decision-makers a "sense of place" from which to view their perceptions.

Cynefin framework is a Welsh word meaning habitat, haunt, acquainted, familiar.

Cynefin framework continued developing it as European director of IBM's Institute of Knowledge Management, and later as founder and director of the IBM Cynefin Centre for Organizational Complexity, established in 2002.

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Cynefin framework offers five decision-making contexts or "domains": clear, complicated, complex, chaotic, and a centre of confusion.

The Cynefin framework recommends "sense–analyze–respond": assess the facts, analyze, and apply the appropriate good operating practice.

Cynefin framework was used by its IBM developers in policy-making, product development, market creation, supply chain management, branding and customer relations.

Criticism of Cynefin includes that the framework is difficult and confusing, needs a more rigorous foundation, and covers too limited a selection of possible contexts.

Holt places the theory of constraints within the Cynefin framework framing by arguing the theory of constraints moves from complex situations to complicated ones by using abductive reasoning and intuition then logic to creating an understanding, before creating a probe to test understanding.

Firestone and McElroy argue that Cynefin framework is a model of sensemaking rather than a full model of knowledge management and processing.