CogNexus Group

Like cartoons?

Here’s a modern fairy tale that explains how shared display creates shared understanding.

“It is stunning how the maps make it possible to think through things.”

“Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.”

“CogNexus is a small, efficient and low cost provider of dynamic knowledge management services.”

Coming up with good ideas, harvesting the wisdom of the rank and file, running better meetings, overhauling the compensation system, etc. All of those are worthy goals, and a few are probably necessary, but none of them is sufficient for reinventing management.

The Holy Grail of collective intelligence is shared understanding, and, more broadly, the capacity to create shared understanding among the stakeholders of complex projects.

… from endemic poverty to global warming, but the track record of our urban species makes me optimistic.

I just watched your YouTube video on Issue-mapping. I think your work on the subject is marvelous. I’ve spent more than a decade thinking about and articulating a logic of dialogue and I’m convinced that questions play a key and underappreciated role in thinking, and that clarity requires, among other things, that one understand the role that various conversational contributions play in issue space.

Your issue-mapping techniques are as powerful a way of accomplishing this as I’ve come across, and I want you to know how much I appreciate what you’re doing.

“What is needed is a framework that augments our collective intelligence, giving us the capacity to include the full range of stakeholders and perspectives, and to embrace the complexity of disagreement and controversy, rather than simplifying it away.”

“I see Issue Mapping as giving me a competitive edge over other consultants in my field and a way to build a great client relationship from the project outset. I recommend this work to almost everyone I talk to when it comes to dealing with issues, particularly in the corporate environment I operate within.”