This chapter of Marc Buelens and Geert Devos relates the effectiveness of change strategies to the fit between the playing field and change. Change strategies are seen as a pattern in a stream of decisions and activities, reflecting consistency of behavior over time. Internal and external environments of organizations can be so different that a […]
Playing field
1. Dynamic business environments
In this article David Snowden and Mary Boone describe the Cynefin framework, a sense-making device developed to help people make sense of the complexities made visible by the relaxation of these assumptions. The framework is explained and its use in group sense-making and discourse is described. The Cynefin framework helps leaders determine the prevailing operative […]