Cynefin

Cynefin, pronounced ku-*nev*-in, is a Welsh word that, according to Dave Snowden, signifies the multiple factors in our environment and our experience that influence us in ways we can never understand. Roughly meaning the place of our belonging. Snowden uses the term to designate a framework for identifying 3 different types of ontologies: Order, Complex, and Chaos – and the Phase Shift between them.

Cynefin Framework. pdf – Using this tool can prevent many failures in problem solving.

Dave Snowden invented and developed "Sense Maker" methods and software. Perhaps we should learn from him about how self generated and self classified narrative fragments can help make sense.