Alessandro Rancati

Summary

Alessandro Rancati co-authored the European Commission Joint Research Centre field guide on managing complexity and chaos in crisis.

Implications for practice

The field guide is an institutional and collaborative translation of Cynefin into crisis practice, not simply another single-author exposition.

Key distinctions

• institutional co-production vs individual authorship
• field guidance vs universal prescription

Historical development

• European Commission Joint Research Centre
• crisis decision support

Ideas it depends on

• crisis
• sensing
• boundaries
• distributed engagement

Further developments

• Managing complexity and chaos in times of crisis

Connections to practice

• public policy
• crisis response
• resilience

Common confusions

• a field guide guarantees transfer across every crisis

Further checks

• add project cases and evaluation
• map JRC collaboration history

Recorded connections

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• Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis was co-authored by Alessandro Rancati

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  • Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis: a field guide for decision makers inspired by the Cynefin framework (checked)

Sources and passage locators

• Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis: a field guide for decision makers inspired by the Cynefin framework (checked)

Cite this entry

Taylor, B. P. (2026). Alessandro Rancati. The Necessary Tangle, release 0.35. https://transduction.systems/entries/person_alessandro_rancati/

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