Cynefin Framework
You are facing a new problem and do not know whether to analyze it, standardize it, or explore it through experiments.
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Competitive Advantage
Diagnosis, alternatives, scenarios, and systems thinking. Where can we find a stronger solution?
Where to start
Core set
If this topic is new to you, start with these tools.
Scenarios & uncertainty
Stacey Matrix
The team is debating whether it needs a detailed plan or a series of experiments.
Open card →Sensitivity Analysis
You need to diagnose the situation, expand alternatives, or find a stronger solution.
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Dunning–Kruger Effect
You need to diagnose the situation, expand alternatives, or find a stronger solution.
Open card →Brainstorming
You need to diagnose the situation, expand alternatives, or find a stronger solution.
Open card →Pareto Principle
You need to diagnose the situation, expand alternatives, or find a stronger solution.
Open card →NGT
You need to diagnose the situation, expand alternatives, or find a stronger solution.
Open card →Overton Window
The team needs a stronger solution or point of differentiation but is stuck in obvious approaches.
Open card →Competitor Radar
The team needs a stronger solution or point of differentiation but is stuck in obvious approaches.
Open card →Alternatives & decisions
Alternatives Analysis
You need to diagnose the situation, expand alternatives, or find a stronger solution.
Open card →Decision Tree Analysis
You need to diagnose the situation, expand alternatives, or find a stronger solution.
Open card →Influence Diagram
The team needs a stronger solution or point of differentiation but is stuck in obvious approaches.
Open card →Optimization Model
The team needs a stronger solution or point of differentiation but is stuck in obvious approaches.
Open card →Decision Table
You need to understand the problem more deeply or find a stronger solution.
Open card →Decision Model and Notation
You need to understand the problem more deeply or find a stronger solution.
Open card →Observe · Orient · Decide · Act
You need to understand the problem more deeply or find a stronger solution.
Open card →Synthesis & facilitation
Affinity Diagram
You need to diagnose the situation, expand alternatives, or find a stronger solution.
Open card →Modeling
The team needs a stronger solution or point of differentiation but is stuck in obvious approaches.
Open card →KJ Technique
The team needs a stronger solution or point of differentiation but is stuck in obvious approaches.
Open card →Venn Diagram
The team needs a stronger solution or point of differentiation but is stuck in obvious approaches.
Open card →Similarity Grouping
You need to understand the problem more deeply or find a stronger solution.
Open card →Liberating Structures: 1-2-4-All
Group discussions are dominated by a few voices while quieter participants contribute less.
Open card →Brainwriting 6-3-5
Brainstorming is constrained by group pressure, hierarchy, or the first ideas voiced aloud.
Open card →Problem diagnosis
Fact Maps
You need to understand the problem more deeply or find a stronger solution.
Open card →Affinity Diagram Artifact
You need to understand the problem more deeply or find a stronger solution.
Open card →Systems thinking
Mental Sets & Diversity
You need to understand the problem more deeply or find a stronger solution.
Open card →Causal Loop Diagram
Local fixes keep producing unexpected consequences because feedback relationships are not visible.
Open card →Systems Thinking Iceberg Model
The team reacts to events but does not see the patterns, structures, and mental models underneath them.
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