SCAN for sensemaking and decision-making
SCAN for sensemaking and decision-making
Making sense in real-world uncertainty
About the Book
This anthology from the Tetradian weblog covers the SCAN model-type and its related uses and modelling methods. SCAN is used to guide sensemaking and decision-making in contexts with varying levels of complexity, uncertainty and uniqueness.
This is the first of a two-part series, showing the initial SCAN developments and usages up to 2014. The second part in the series, Updates on SCAN sensemaking: New developments for the SCAN model, describes further developments and usages from 2014 onwards.
This book includes about 35 posts and 55 images from the weblog. These posts are split into four groups:
- SCAN: Core and Origins - describes the underlying concepts, structures and methods for the core SCAN framework.
- SCAN: Sensemaking - explores how to use the SCAN frame to support sensemaking.
- SCAN: Decision-making - illustrates how to use the SCAN frame to support real-world and real-time decision-making.
- SCAN: Theory and Practice - presents the theory that underpins the SCAN framework, and practical examples of SCAN in use.
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Table of Contents
- SCAN: INTRODUCTION
- SCAN: CORE AND ORIGINS
- “Let’s do a quick SCAN on this”
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Comparing SCAN and Cynefin
- Business roles
- Framework roots
- Practical problems with Cynefin
- A bit more detail on SCAN
- Different trade-offs, different roles
- SCAN – an Ambiguous correction
- Ensuring that the Simple stays simple
- SCAN left, SCAN right…
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Domains and dimensions in SCAN
- The dimensions of SCAN
- Dimension of modality
- Dimension of available-time
- Dimension of repeatability (variety)
- A possibly-simpler summary
- More keywords for SCAN
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A simpler SCAN
- Between sameness and uniqueness
- From plan to action
- Summary
- SCAN - some recent notes
- Problem-space, solution-space and SCAN
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Knowable and discoverable
- Practical implications
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SCANning the toaster
- Practical application
- On metaframeworks in enterprise-architecture
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Metaframeworks in practice, Part 4: Context-space mapping and SCAN
- Context-space mapping and SCAN
- SCAN and Causal Layered Analysis
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On SCAN, PDCA, OODA and the acronym-soup
- The structure of SCAN
- SCAN and the sense-making / decision-making loop
- SCAN: SENSEMAKING
- Real-time sensemaking with SCAN
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Belief and faith at the point of action
- Enterprise-architecture implications
- Using recursion in sensemaking
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Sensemaking and the swamp-metaphor
- The swamp-metaphor
- SCANning the swamp
- Idea, hypothesis, theory, law
- Layers and recursion
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Sensemaking – modes and disciplines
- Four modes and seven sins
- Emphasis and tactics within each mode
- SCAN: DECISION-MAKING
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Decision-making – belief, fact, theory and practice
- It gets complicated…
- Implications for enterprise-architecture
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Decision-making – linking intent and action (1)
- Two parallel paths
- Implications for enterprise-architecture
- Decision-making – linking intent and action (2)
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Decision-making – linking intent and action (3)
- Implications for enterprise-architecture
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Decision-making – linking intent and action (4)
- Decision-physics
- Dysfunctional diagonals
- Rules, principles, belief and faith
- SCAN as ‘decision-dartboard’
- SCAN: THEORY AND PRACTICE
- Order, unorder and effectiveness
- Control, complexity and chaos
- Control, complex, chaotic
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Using SCAN: some quick examples
- Requirements definition
- EA reference-framework
- Co-inspiring in the Chaotic domain
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