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Dave Snowden

Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge

  





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Author, Knowledge Consultant, Speaker

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http://www.cognitive-edge.com 

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Organizational Complexity; Knowledge Management; Storytelling; Sensemaking

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United Kingdom, London

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Dave Snowden has been one of the leading figures in the movement towards integration of humanistic approaches to knowledge management with appropriate technology and process design. Well known for his work on the role of narrative and sensemaking, he is an entertaining speaker and a formidable realist, and one of the few thought leaders who can bring together the academic and practitioner perspectives into a single, comprehensible purview.

He is Founder & Chief Scientific Officer -Cognitive Edge (formerly the Cynefin Centre) which focuses on the development of the theory and practice of social complexity. The Cynefin Centre spun off from IBM in July 2005 to allow it greater freedom to explore new trans-disciplinary and participatory approaches to research and the creation of an open source approach to management consultancy. The Cynefin framework which lies at the heart of the approach has been recognized by several commentators as one of the first practical application of complexity theory to management science and builds on earlier pioneering work in Knowledge Management.

A native of Wales, he was formerly a Director in the IBM Institute for Knowledge Management where he led programmes on complexity and narrative. He pioneered the use of narrative as a means of knowledge disclosure and cross-cultural understanding. He is a leading keynote speaker at major conferences around the world and is known for his iconoclastic style, pragmatic cynicism and extensive use of stories to communicate what would otherwise be difficult concepts. Tom Stewart, the new editor of Harvard Business Review in his latest book states in the context of tacit knowledge "Dave Snowden, the best thinker I've found on the subject ..." although by way of counter he also comments "he is Welsh and a bit mad".

Dave Snowden has an MBA from Middlesex University and a BA in Philosophy from Lancaster University. He is adjunct Professor of Knowledge Management at the University of Canberra, an honorary fellow in knowledge management at the University of Warwick, Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and MiNE Fellow at the Universita Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore in Italy. He teaches on various university programmes throughout the world. He regularly consults at the board level with some of the world's largest companies as well as to Government and NGOs and was recently appointed as an advisor on sense making to the Singaporean Ministry of Defence. In addition he sits on a number of advisory and other bodies including the British Standards Institute committee on standards for Knowledge Management.

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Book
  Cognitive Edge (Jul 2007 ) by Dave Snowden
Making Sense of Complexity

  Knowledge Horizons (2000 ) by Charles Despres , Daniele Chauvel 
The Present and the Promise of Knowledge Management

Category
  Organizational Complexity [14 items]

Download
  Making Knowledge Work Conference Materials, May 2005
Making Knowledge Work, May 2005

  Dave Snowden Materials
Various presentations & whitepapers from Dave Snowden

Link
  Cognitive Edge
Dave Snowden's Cognitive-Edge Organization (formerly the Cynefin Centre)

Media File
  Video: Dave Snowden on fluffy bunnies & techno-fetishists

Past Event
  Mobilising Knowledge for Business Performance
Practical Solutions for the Real World
08 May 2003, The Association for Information Management (ASLIB)
The Business Design Centre, London, United Kingdom

  Knowledge Summit 2003
Knowledge 2003: sharing best practices for implementing successful knowledge management initiatives
01 - 03 Jun 2003, Marcus Evans
Kurhaus Hotel, The Hague, Netherlands

  LKN Launch
Formal Launch of the London Knowledge Network
15 Dec 2003, London Knowledge Network
RS Hispaniola/Cutty Sark, London, United Kingdom

  ICKM2004: People, Knowledge and Technology
What have we learnt so far?
13 - 15 Dec 2004, Information & Knowledge Management Society
Mandarin Meritus, Singapore City, Singapore

  Measuring & Managing What Matters
Presented by Dave Snowden and Verna Allee
07 - 08 Apr 2005, Society for Organisational Learning (Australia) Ltd 
Brisbane, Australia

  KC UK 2006
04 - 06 Jul 2006, Ark Group
Ibis London Earls Court , London, United Kingdom

  KMAP 2006: The 3rd Asia-Pacific International Conference on Knowledge Management
The Knowledge Powerhouse for the Future
11 - 13 Dec 2006, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University , City Univeristy of Hong Kong 
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University , Hong Kong, China

  KM Russia-2007
05 - 06 Apr 2007, Global Forum
Moscow, Russia

  Setting Up An Effective Knowledge Management System
Going ‘Back To Basics’ to Improve the Success Rate of Your Knowledge Management Initiatives
26 - 27 Sep 2007, Ark Group Australia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  
KM India 2007
The Knowledge Summit
14 - 16 Nov 2007, Confederation of Indian Industry 
Le Meridien Hotel, New Delhi, India


  KM Brazil 2007
29 - 30 Nov 2007, Sociedade Brasileira de Gestão do Conhecimento
Hotel Century Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil

  Innovation in Managing Knowledge for the Competitive Edge
Workshops on Knowledge Capture and Transfer
30 Jun - 02 Jul 2008, Paradigm Systems 
Kuala Lumpur Convention Center , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Person
  Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge

  Ralph Stacey Professor of Management & Director of the Complexity & Management Centre at the Business School of the University of Hertfordshire, UK

  Ron Donaldson Senior Knowledge Ecologist, English Nature

Quotation
  On eureka innovation by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge

  On KM and certification by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge

  On knowing more than we can say by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge

  On knowing what we know by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge

  On volunteering knowledge by Dave Snowden Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge

Report
  

Story
  On a deeper understanding by Dave Snowden
A story on understanding

Weblog Entry
  Dave Snowden is blogging!
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 17 August 2006

  KM Australia and Gurteen Knowledge Cafe
Gurteen Mail Log, David Gurteen, 29 May 2007

  How Do We Make People Do Things?
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 12 November 2007

  A Leader's Framework for Decision Making
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 14 November 2007

  A summary of Dave Snowden's recent work
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 28 November 2007

  Satisfaction Surveys (Are you satisfied?)
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 18 February 2008

  Setting targets for knowledge sharing
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 7 June 2008

  Is KM Dead? Larry Prusak, Dave Snowden, Patrick Lambe
Gurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 6 July 2008



Quotations from Dave Snowden:

 True Eureka innovation is not going to happen by an internal training programme but from engagement in the real world.

Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge



 I have a passion for KM as one of the first disciplines that used properly puts people first and is itself a learning environment which should encourage diversity. That passion means that I will fight attempts to standardise or "certify" the discipline.

Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge



 We always know more than we can say, and we can always say more than we can write down.

Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge



 We only know what we know when we need to know it.

Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge



 Knowledge can only be volunteered; it can never be conscripted.

Dave Snowden, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer - Cognitive Edge




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