Cognitive Edge Accreditations at Justice
Posted by webmaster 22 June 2007
June 18-20 saw six staff from the Dept of Justice undergo accreditation in the Cognitive Edge method, tools and techniques.
Cognitive Edge (CE) draws on diverse disciplines including complexity science, cognitive psychology and anthropology. At the heart of complexity science is the detection of weak signals, which allows early, low cost interventions to be applied to troublesome, and potentially troublesome situations and issues.
The tools and processes are also designed to enable groups of people to make sense of their complex issues before determining the most appropriate interventions. CE provides a perspective or sense-making approach, supporting people involved in the issues to make more effective decisions about those issues. The focus is on making sense of systems, with meaning constructed by those in the system, rather than external experts.
Dave Snowden who is well known to CIN members, conducted the programme with the assistance of Viv Read of the Society for Organisational Learning Australia. This Melbourne session has now brings the numbers of practitioners within the VPS to 11. The workshop provided learning to:
- Use narrative techniques to capture multiple and diverse perspectives.
- Enable groups to make sense of complex and intractable issues
- Apply complexity principles and Cognitive Edge methods to applications including strategy development, knowledge capture, capturing learning & innovation.
Justice staff who attended the session (LtoR) Jake Hawley, Gill Crimmins, Kathryn Beggs, Cecily Vial, Luke Naismith, and Michael Bourne (not pictured.) These six add the the current representation in Justice, Primary Industries, Treasury & Finance, Environment Protection Authority and SSA.
The VPS practitioners will adopt and collaborative approach over the coming months and support each other in the design and deployment of sessions using the methods.
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