Complexity, Collaboration and Unconferencing. The Collusion of Mediocrity | Jack Martin Leith. Jack Martin Leith Creative activist based in Bristol, UK Whoops! Whatever you are looking for cannot be found. Stay in the loop. Subscribe to Creative Action News. Recent Posts Minimalist Intervention: precipitating breakthrough change with an almost imperceptible nudge Four kinds of innovation, with corresponding creative practices There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action At UXBristol 2012, five great people co-created a conference session during the breaks Edward Matchett: Creative Genius Recent Comments Adam Beizsley-Pycroft on Four kinds of innovation, with corresponding creative practices Website creator: Jack Martin Leith WordPress theme: Graph Paper Press Featured photo: Simon Skies “All action…” quote: David Bernstein Creative Commons licence: Attribution-NoDerivs View licence. Panarchy. Panarchy is a conceptual term first coined by the Belgian philosopher, economist, and botanist Paul Emile de Puydt in 1860, referring to a specific form of governance (-archy) that would encompass (pan-) all others.[1] The Oxford English Dictionary lists the noun as "chiefly poetic" with the meaning "a universal realm," citing an 1848 attestation by Philip James Bailey, "the starry panarchy of space".
The adjective panarchic "all-ruling" has earlier attestations.[2] In the twentieth century the term was re-coined separately by scholars in international relations to describe the notion of global governance and then by systems theorists to describe non-hierarchical organizing theories. Freely choosing government[edit] In his 1860 article "Panarchy" de Puydt, who also expressed support for laissez-faire economics, applied the concept to the individual's right to choose any form of government without being forced to move from their current locale. Le Grand E. Global Society[edit] James P. Understanding complexity ibm. For most of us, complexity is an "I know it when I see it" (IKITWISI) kind of thing. In software development and delivery, we use often use the term "complexity" without any agreed, technical definition. This is understandable, since complexity is hard to define. The wide range of technical definitions or measures from different fields,1 including software design,2 show there is no easy, single definition.
As I discuss in this article, complexity is both unavoidable and costly. In fact, for a variety of reasons discussed below, complexity is increasing in our personal and technical lives. It is fair to say that complexity, in its various manifestations, is one of the key technical and business concerns of our time. Yet, there are general ways to diminish the impact of complexity. Thinking about complexity Generally speaking, something that is complex has many interconnected, interacting parts. Predictive. However, another century-old lesson is that simplicity is desirable. Context. 6 M. Cynefin. The various domains of the Cynefin model. Cynefin /ˈkʌnɨvɪn/ is a Welsh word, which is commonly translated into English as 'habitat' or 'place', although this fails to convey its full meaning. The term was chosen by the Welsh scholar Dave Snowden to describe a perspective on the evolutionary nature of complex systems, including their inherent uncertainty ("The Cynefin framework").
The name serves as a reminder that all human interactions are strongly influenced and frequently determined by our experiences, both through the direct influence of personal experience, as well as through collective experience, such as stories or music. The framework provides a typology of contexts that guides what sort of explanations or solutions might apply.
It draws on research into complex adaptive systems theory, cognitive science, anthropology, and narrative patterns, as well as evolutionary psychology, to describe problems, situations, and systems. Meaning of the word[edit] History[edit] See also[edit] Cognitive Edge.