Linear versus complexity: A new thinking paradigm for the development world
General
The KM4DEV in Rome group attended a lecture given by Dave Snowden on February 28 in IFAD on 'how complexity approaches can enhance insight, creativity and innovation among development leaders and practitioners'?
Dave is the founder of Cognitive Edge and a leading knowledge management practitioner, a thought leader who brings together academic and practitioner perspective into a single comprehensible purview, a well-known figure for his work on the role of narrative and sense-making and the father of Cynefin framework.
A simple explanation of the Cynefin Framework is available here.
Lecture
Dave gave an overview of his Cynefin framework and showed how it can help and be used by development workers so that we can make our interventions more efficient. He also talked about pros and cons of exclusively adopting a linear approach in a changing, unpredictable and complex world and shared with us his ideas on how to promote innovation and capture knowledge and learning from complex rural development interventions.
Webcasting & Social Media
Read the event description on IFAD's website, check out IFAD's Facebook page or visit IFAD's blog to watch the webcast.
The IFAD Social Reporting Team covered the event on Twitter using the following hashtags: #kmers and #globaldev.
To see the coverage and the off-site followers' contributions, see the slideshow.
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