Comments on: Strategic sensemaking and Enterprise 2.0 technologies http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2007/02/02/strategic-sensemaking-and-enterprise-20-technologies/ "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:14:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Zwei nebenberufliche Promotionsthemen: Gamification und Sensemaking « Open Source Research Group http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2007/02/02/strategic-sensemaking-and-enterprise-20-technologies/comment-page-1/#comment-107175 Zwei nebenberufliche Promotionsthemen: Gamification und Sensemaking « Open Source Research Group Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:49:49 +0000 http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2007/02/02/strategic-sensemaking-and-enterprise-20-technologies/#comment-107175 [...] Sensemaking von Nutzern von Geschäftssoftware. Fragestellung: Anonymisiertes Tracking, Analyse, und Aufbereitung des Nutzerverhaltens von Geschäftssoftware zwecks Verbesserung dieser Software; Ableitung von Trends aufgrund von Nutzerverhalten. (Stichwort Sensemaking.) [...] [...] Sensemaking von Nutzern von Geschäftssoftware. Fragestellung: Anonymisiertes Tracking, Analyse, und Aufbereitung des Nutzerverhaltens von Geschäftssoftware zwecks Verbesserung dieser Software; Ableitung von Trends aufgrund von Nutzerverhalten. (Stichwort Sensemaking.) [...]

]]> By: Jon Husband http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2007/02/02/strategic-sensemaking-and-enterprise-20-technologies/comment-page-1/#comment-17622 Jon Husband Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:47:34 +0000 http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2007/02/02/strategic-sensemaking-and-enterprise-20-technologies/#comment-17622 <i>Instead of counting on the insights of a mythological strategic genius, you distribute the problem to the wider organization. Many of the more interesting strategic planning processes (think scenario based planning and future search conferences, for example) are ultimately grounded in that notion</i> I have designed and run about half a dozen future search conferences in the past (even got trained and apprenticed with Marv Weisbord), and am now noodling on what I have decided to call " the wisdom of the organizational crowd". I think that the more and more hyperlinks come to pervade our daily working / business environment, the more and more "open" and loose-but-tightly structured the sensemaking processes will need to be, as opposed to formulaic solutions that people like (or know how) to buy, and that support and sustain (most) large-consulting-firm business models. Marv Weisbord wrote about this quite a while ago in Productive Workplaces, Part Three, Chapter 13 titled <b>"Third Wave" managing and Consulting: A New Practice Theory</b>. Open Space, Future Search and scenario planning are not dissimilar in concept and operation to game theory as explored in the book Emergence .. a few simple rules and turn it over to the participants .. they'll get to where they need to go, given the accuracy or appropriateness or criticality of the imposed contraints. Instead of counting on the insights of a mythological strategic genius, you distribute the problem to the wider organization. Many of the more interesting strategic planning processes (think scenario based planning and future search conferences, for example) are ultimately grounded in that notion

I have designed and run about half a dozen future search conferences in the past (even got trained and apprenticed with Marv Weisbord), and am now noodling on what I have decided to call ” the wisdom of the organizational crowd”.

I think that the more and more hyperlinks come to pervade our daily working / business environment, the more and more “open” and loose-but-tightly structured the sensemaking processes will need to be, as opposed to formulaic solutions that people like (or know how) to buy, and that support and sustain (most) large-consulting-firm business models. Marv Weisbord wrote about this quite a while ago in Productive Workplaces, Part Three, Chapter 13 titled “Third Wave” managing and Consulting: A New Practice Theory.

Open Space, Future Search and scenario planning are not dissimilar in concept and operation to game theory as explored in the book Emergence .. a few simple rules and turn it over to the participants .. they’ll get to where they need to go, given the accuracy or appropriateness or criticality of the imposed contraints.

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