I've done a good deal of reading lately around my usual themes of knowledge management, project management, and network analysis. I've also been reading a good deal about chaos, complexity, and systems, which are other areas of interest. In synthesising all of these disciplines I've come to realise just how useful Dave Snowden's Cynefin Framework actually is, and I have decided to incorporate it into my doctoral thesis. I just wish Dave would publish his long promised and overdue book. So I can gain a greater understanding of his framework I've decided to enrol in his next course in Australia , but I digress.

In an earlier blog I mentioned of Remington and Pollack's book "Tools for Complex Projects ". They classify projects as being structurally complex, technically complex, directionally complex, and/or temporarily complex. Now it seems to me their classification and the Cynefin Framework fit together very nicely, as shown in the illustration.