David Snowden

In 2002 at the ASIS&T Annual, I attended a fantastic plenary session featuring David Snowden. At the time he was at IBM’s Cynefin Centre. His presentation introduced me to some fascinating ideas that are part of complex adative systems as applied to knowledge management. I was rather disappointed when the Cynefin Centre disapeared from IBM’s site and my googling failed to turn up any information about it. Fortunately it looks like the Centre hasn’t disappeared but is now independent and moved to a new home.

• The Organic Approach to the Organization A conversation with KM practitioner David Snowden by Steve Barth (September 11, 2000)
• Complex Acts of Knowing: Paradox and Descriptive Self-awareness David Snowden (May? 2002) [PDF]