Impact Trust • Working glossary

Cynefin framework

A framework distinguishing five domains of practice – clear, complicated, complex, chaotic, and confused – each requiring fundamentally different approaches to decision-making and action.

Details

Context introduced

Kirsten referenced Snowden’s mapping: most training prepares people for ‘simple’ and ‘complicated’ domains, but the polycrisis operates in ‘complex’ and ‘chaotic’ territory where cause-and-effect can only be understood in retrospect, if at all.

Source

Dave Snowden, Cynefin Centre, complexity practice

Source / First Appears In

Risk & Risk Perception TDT session / SenseMaker TDT session

Authors

Impact Trust team