Cynthia F. Kurtz

Summary

Cynthia F. Kurtz is a researcher and writer on participatory narrative inquiry and sense-making, and co-author of the early Cynefin paper The New Dynamics of Strategy.

Implications for practice

Cynefin's early scholarly development was collaborative. Representing Kurtz separately prevents a shared paper and narrative research contribution from becoming a one-person genealogy.

Key distinctions

• co-authorship vs later ownership
• participatory narrative inquiry vs story collection alone

Historical development

• organisational narrative
• participatory inquiry
• knowledge management

Ideas it depends on

• narrative
• interpretation
• context

Further developments

• The New Dynamics of Strategy
• participatory narrative inquiry

Connections to practice

• organisational research
• community inquiry
• narrative methods

Common confusions

• early Cynefin writing had a sole author
• narrative work is anecdote without method

Further checks

• add Kurtz's later primary work
• map the wider narrative-practice lineage

Recorded connections

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• Cynthia F. Kurtz co-authored with Dave Snowden

  Status: accepted · Relation: coauthored with

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  Locator: Release 0.14 public primary, official, institutional and publisher sources

  • The New Dynamics of Strategy: Sense-making in a Complex and Complicated World (checked)

• The New Dynamics of Strategy was co-authored by Cynthia F. Kurtz

  Status: accepted · Relation: authored by

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  • The New Dynamics of Strategy: Sense-making in a Complex and Complicated World (checked)

Sources and passage locators

• The New Dynamics of Strategy: Sense-making in a Complex and Complicated World (checked)

Cite this entry

Taylor, B. P. (2026). Cynthia F. Kurtz. The Necessary Tangle, release 0.35. https://transduction.systems/entries/person_cynthia_f_kurtz/

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