The New Dynamics of Strategy

Summary

The New Dynamics of Strategy is an early co-authored scholarly account of narrative, sense-making and movement among Cynefin contexts.

Implications for practice

It grounds both the collaborative development and the dynamic, rather than merely classificatory, character of early Cynefin practice.

Key distinctions

• complex vs complicated
• dynamics vs static taxonomy
• co-authored development vs sole authorship

Historical development

• IBM knowledge management
• narrative inquiry
• Cynefin

Ideas it depends on

• sense-making
• narrative
• context

Further developments

• Cynefin dynamics
• strategy practice

Connections to practice

• strategy
• organisational narrative
• decision support

Common confusions

• the diagram is the whole argument
• the domains are static sectors

Further checks

• summarise with exact page locators
• trace later revisions
• map reception and criticism

Recorded connections

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• The New Dynamics of Strategy develops the dynamics of Cynefin framework

  Status: accepted · Relation: develops

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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 Dave Snowden

  Status: accepted · Relation: authored by

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  • 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). The New Dynamics of Strategy. The Necessary Tangle, release 0.35. https://transduction.systems/entries/publication_new_dynamics_of_strategy/

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