Dave Snowden
David J. Snowden | |
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Dave Snowden, 2016 | |
Born |
David John Snowden 1954 |
Nationality | Welsh |
Education |
BA (philosophy), University of Lancaster, 1975 MBA, Middlesex Polytechnic, 1985 |
Occupation | Management consultant |
Employer | Cognitive Edge Pte Ltd, Singapore |
Known for | Cynefin framework |
David John Snowden (born 1954) is a Welsh management consultant and researcher in the field of knowledge management. Known for the development of the Cynefin framework,[1] Snowden is the founder and chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge, a Singapore-based management-consulting firm specializing in complexity and sensemaking.[2]
Education
Snowden graduated in 1975 with a BA (Hons) in philosophy from County College, University of Lancaster,[3] and obtained an MBA in 1985 from Middlesex Polytechnic.[4]
Career
Snowden worked for Data Sciences Ltd from 1984 until January 1997.[4] The company was acquired by IBM in 1996,[5] and the following year he joined IBM Global Services' Knowledge and Differentiation Programme.[6] In 2000 he became European director of the company's Institute for Knowledge Management.[4]
In 2002 Snowden founded the IBM Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity.[7] While at IBM, he led a team that developed the Cynefin framework, a decision-making tool.[8][9][10] He left IBM in 2004 and a year later founded Cognitive Edge Pte Ltd, a management-consulting firm based in Singapore.[11]
Snowden has been an adjunct professor or visiting scholar at several universities, including the University of Pretoria, University of Canberra and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.[2] In 2006 he was a director of funding allocation for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in the UK on the subject of emergence.[2] In 2015 he was awarded an honorary professorship in the School of Psychology at Bangor University.[12]
Works
Snowden is the author of several articles and book chapters on the Cynefin framework, the development of narrative as a research method, and the role of complexity in sensemaking.[2] In 2008 he and co-author Mary E. Boone won an "Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication in OB" award from the Academy of Management's Organizational Behavior division for a Harvard Business Review article on Cynefin.[13][14] In 2008–2009 he wrote a column on trends in technology, "Everything is fragmented", for KMWorld.[15] He is an editor-in-chief of the journal Emergence: Complexity and Organization.[2]
References
- ↑ Bob Williams, Richard Hummelbrunner, Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010, 163–164.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Biography of David Snowden" (PDF). cognitive-edge.com, courtesy of Athabasca University. 2008. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
- ↑ "Interview with Dave Snowden", Lancaster University Enterprise Centre, 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Dave Snowden", LinkedIn. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- ↑ "IBM to acquire Data Sciences", New Straits Times, 7 March 1996.
- ↑ "Knowledge Management workshop", Athens Laboratory of Business Administration, 2000, 5.
- ↑ "The Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity", IBM Global Services, archived 14 June 2002.
- ↑ David Snowden, "Complex Acts of Knowing: Paradox and Descriptive Self Awareness", Journal of Knowledge Management, 6(2), May 2002, 100–111. doi:10.1108/13673270210424639
- ↑ Cynthia F. Kurtz, David J. Snowden, "The new dynamics of strategy: Sense-making in a complex and complicated world", IBM Systems Journal, 42(3), 2003, 462–483. doi:10.1147/sj.423.0462
- ↑ Thomas Quiggin, "Interview with Mr. Dave Snowden of Cognitive Edge", Seeing the Invisible: National Security Intelligence in an Uncertain Age. World Scientific, 2007, 212.
- ↑ "Cognitive Edge Pte Ltd", Bloomberg. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- ↑ "Meet the team", Bangor University.
- ↑ "Outstanding Practitioner-Oriented Publication in OB", obweb.org.
- ↑ David J. Snowden, Mary E. Boone, "A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making of the circumstances they face", Harvard Business Review, November 2007.
- ↑ Dave Snowden (2009). "Everything is fragmented". KMWorld.
External links
- List of articles by Dave Snowden, archived 17 January 2012.