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complex-complicated world Cynthia F Kurtz and David J Snowden Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity IBM Global Services www.ibm.com/services/cynefin ckurtz@us.ibm.com snowded@uk.ibm.com (corresponding author) We challenge the universality of three basic assumptions prevalent (in our view) in organizational decision support and strategy: assumptions of order, of rational choice, and of intentional capability. We describe the Cynefin framework, a sense-making device we have…

THE SIX SIGMA WAY This page intentionally left blank. THE SIX SIGMA WAY How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies Are Honing Their Performance PETER S. PANDE ROBERT P. NEUMAN ROLAND R. CAVANAGH McGraw-Hill New York San Francisco Washington, D.C. Auckland Bogotá Caracas Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan Montreal New Delhi San Juan Singapore Sydney Tokyo Toronto Copyright © 2000 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States…

of Natural Observations 107 7. Low-Cost Experimentation Experimental Design • Types of Experiments • Conclusion 119 8. Low-Cost Survey Designs Survey Design • Low-Cost Sampling • Other Alternatives for Asking Questions 142 Part Three: Making Low-Cost Research Good Research 9. Producing Valid Data Nonquestion Sources of Error • Asking Questions • Questionnaire Design 181 10. All the Statistics You Need to Know (Initially) Fear of Statistics • Input Data •…

The Game Is Not the Experience .......................................................................................10 Is This Unique to Games? .....................................................................................................11 Three Practical Approaches to Chasing Rainbows .....................................................12 Introspection: Powers, Perils, and Practice .....................................................................14 Dissect Your Feelings…

clubs, magazines, books, etc. In a number of Star Trek episodes, a three dimensional chess variant is played. The rules were reconstructed by a fan of the series, Andrew Bartmess, and given below in a description by James Dixon, reworded by Hans Bodlaender. See also: * Building Your Own Star Trek Tridimensional Chess Board. * The Federation Standard version of Tri-D Chess may be found at Andrew Bartmess' page. Three dimensional Chess, from Star Trek Muitos fans da serie de…

operations ought to respond to political crises in at least two important respects. First, as with the Canadian and British initiatives, Brahimi’s panel failed to interrogate the roles peace operations play in wider processes of global politics. All three approaches assume a consensus exists on what constitutes a crisis, the elements of the solution, and the most appropriate strategies to achieve it. They therefore represent a managerialist or ‘problem solving’ approach to improving…

sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. Alternatives To Spoken Error CorrectionOther ways to improve accuracy for the many times when simple correction of oral errors isn’t the best way.Written by Alex Case for EnglishClub.comCorrection of spoken errors usually starts with a teacher picking out examples of students pronouncing things in ways that might be difficult to understand, getting the grammar wrong, or using an incorrect word or expression.…

personal motives in cases of ethnographic dispute, although we know scholarly works are always suffused with their authors’ personal histories and perspectives. "There are my former husbands, all anthropologists and all as deeply involved as I am in the ways in which their lives and their work are interrelated." —Margaret Mead, 1972 Anthropologists have come to take it for granted that works of ethnography cannot be fully understood without reference to the human circumstances in…

make the HIV exam, mainly if we have a active sexual life with different partners because “The time to infection to clinical diagnosis varies from several years to more than a decade. The time from infection to evidence of antibody formation is about three months. In rare cases, person known to have been infected with the virus and to have developed the disease have not produced antibodies.” (Statistical Handbook on Infectious Diseases, 2003). At the same time, AIDS has the later…

and a list of Reminder Questions, which serve as a self-study guide. When Patanjali codified, or compiled the Yoga Sutras, it was not that a new system was created, but rather, the ancient practices were summarized in an extremely organized and terse way. While the Yoga Sutras are thought to be as old as 400 BCE, archaeological evidence and other texts suggest that the methods described in the Yoga Sutras were being practiced as early as 3000 BCE. Oral tradition states that the period…