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      "archived_url": "",
      "content_hash": "",
      "review_status": "checked",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-11",
      "public_link_status": "public_link"
    },
    {
      "id": "src_cynefin_company_home_2026",
      "title": "The Cynefin Company",
      "source_type": "official_organisation_site",
      "quality_tier": "A",
      "access": "public",
      "url": "https://thecynefin.co/",
      "date": "current; checked 2026-08-11",
      "notes": "Canonical first-party source for the organisation's current identity, offers and public library. Use independent sources for evaluative claims about impact or standing.",
      "creators": [
        "The Cynefin Company"
      ],
      "doi": "",
      "isbn": "",
      "publisher": "The Cynefin Company",
      "licence": "site_terms",
      "archived_url": "",
      "content_hash": "",
      "review_status": "checked",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-11",
      "public_link_status": "public_link"
    },
    {
      "id": "src_cynefin_io_naturalising_2026",
      "title": "Naturalising sense-making — Cynefin.io",
      "source_type": "official_collaborative_wiki_page",
      "quality_tier": "B",
      "access": "public",
      "url": "https://cynefin.io/index.php/Naturalising_sense-making",
      "date": "current page; checked 2026-08-11",
      "notes": "First-party maintained definition of naturalising sense-making, including its use of natural science as a constraint and its links to Cynefin, SenseMaker and anthro-complexity.",
      "creators": [
        "Cynefin.io contributors"
      ],
      "doi": "",
      "isbn": "",
      "publisher": "Cynefin.io",
      "licence": "CC BY-SA unless otherwise indicated",
      "archived_url": "",
      "content_hash": "",
      "review_status": "checked",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-11",
      "public_link_status": "public_link"
    },
    {
      "id": "src_cynefin_sensemaker_official_2026",
      "title": "SenseMaker — The Cynefin Company",
      "source_type": "official_product_and_method_page",
      "quality_tier": "A",
      "access": "public",
      "url": "https://thecynefin.co/sensemaker/",
      "date": "current; checked 2026-08-11",
      "notes": "Canonical first-party description of SenseMaker and its use of self-interpreted micro-narratives. Use project reports and independent evaluations for claims about results in particular settings.",
      "creators": [
        "The Cynefin Company"
      ],
      "doi": "",
      "isbn": "",
      "publisher": "The Cynefin Company",
      "licence": "site_terms",
      "archived_url": "",
      "content_hash": "",
      "review_status": "checked",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-11",
      "public_link_status": "public_link"
    },
    {
      "id": "src_cynefin_estuarine_mapping_2022",
      "title": "Estuarine Mapping — The Cynefin Company",
      "source_type": "primary_author_method_page",
      "quality_tier": "A",
      "access": "public",
      "url": "https://thecynefin.co/estuarine-mapping/",
      "date": "2022",
      "notes": "Primary public introduction to Estuarine Mapping and its treatment of constraints and change. Later method material may supersede details; date and version should remain visible.",
      "creators": [
        "Dave Snowden"
      ],
      "doi": "",
      "isbn": "",
      "publisher": "The Cynefin Company",
      "licence": "site_terms",
      "archived_url": "",
      "content_hash": "",
      "review_status": "checked",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-11",
      "public_link_status": "public_link"
    },
    {
      "id": "src_jrc_complexity_crisis_2021",
      "title": "Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis: a field guide for decision makers inspired by the Cynefin framework",
      "source_type": "official_publication_record",
      "quality_tier": "A",
      "access": "public",
      "url": "https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC123629",
      "date": "2021-02-12",
      "notes": "European Commission Joint Research Centre record and public field guide by Dave Snowden and Alessandro Rancati. It supports the guide's authorship, four-stage crisis approach and explicit attention to boundaries, sensing networks, distributed engagement and options.",
      "creators": [
        "Dave Snowden",
        "Alessandro Rancati"
      ],
      "doi": "10.2760/353",
      "isbn": "978-92-76-28844-2",
      "publisher": "Publications Office of the European Union",
      "licence": "public EU document",
      "archived_url": "",
      "content_hash": "",
      "review_status": "checked",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-11",
      "public_link_status": "public_link"
    },
    {
      "id": "src_hbr_leaders_framework_2007",
      "title": "A Leader's Framework for Decision Making",
      "source_type": "publisher_article_record",
      "quality_tier": "A",
      "access": "public_metadata",
      "url": "https://hbr.org/2007/11/a-leaders-framework-for-decision-making",
      "date": "2007-11",
      "notes": "Harvard Business Review record for the article by David J. Snowden and Mary E. Boone. It is a widely circulated practice-facing account of Cynefin; use it alongside earlier and later framework sources rather than as the entire theory.",
      "creators": [
        "David J. Snowden",
        "Mary E. Boone"
      ],
      "doi": "",
      "isbn": "",
      "publisher": "Harvard Business Review",
      "licence": "publisher_terms",
      "archived_url": "",
      "content_hash": "",
      "review_status": "checked",
      "last_checked": "2026-08-11",
      "public_link_status": "public_link"
    }
  ],
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  "reuse_note": "Preserve source attribution, scope, and review status. Source documents and evidence excerpts are excluded."
}