K-I-S-S. It’s a pneumonic device. Crude but effective, it helps us remember to keep things manageable. But, as we all know, many times the ease or difficulty of a situation is not up to us. Hence, the Cynefin model.
Cynefin is a model attributed to IBM that was designed to help managers deal with complexity in making decisions. Its development relied on research from a number of different applications and disciplines, including science, systems, network, psychology and learning theories, and is sometimes referred to as a “sense-making device.” The model breaks situations into five categories—simple, complicated, complex, chaotic, and disorder.