Dave Snowden: Answering Tough Questions (Q&A)

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This event is a follow up to this event https://www.meetup.com/Large-Scale-Scrum-LeSS-in-NYC/events/269918029/ (already took place).

This event will be held in the form of Q&A. Questions submitted so far:

1. In the presentation on 04/20, you advised not to fall for SAFe and Spotify and brought up some valid reasons 'why'. You also warned about large consultancies and their ways of working and their impact on companies and their budgets. Do you see any relationship between large consultancies and the above mentioned frameworks? Do you feel there is a cumulative impact on companies? What is your forecast for the next few years?

2. Could you please share additional insight on what COVID-19 might be on the industry overall, companies-clients, large-consultancies and individuals?

3. One of your quotes (paraphrasing) from the last presentation was: "You dont scale a complex system, by aggregation or imitation but by decomposition and recombination". Could you please elaborate on this?

4. Due to COVID-19 impact, what fundamental shift (if any) do we expect in organizational design/size and communication structure of large corporations?

5. Related to your article "COVID-19 & Leadership", can you please answer your own question: "What will be the impact of this period on the form of civil society and trust in civil institutions?"

More questions can be submitted at the bottom of this page, as a post.
http://www.keystepstosuccess.com/2020/04/04-20-less-talks-dave-snowden-rewilding-agile/

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Dave Snowden divides his time between two roles: founder Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge and the founder and Director of the Centre for Applied Complexity at the University of Wales. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy, organisational decision making and decision making. He has pioneered a science based approach to organi-sations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience and complex adaptive systems theo-ry. He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on a range of subjects, and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style.

He holds positions extra-ordinary Professor at the Universities of Pretoria and Stel-lenbosch as well as visiting Professor at Bangor University in Wales. He has held similar positions at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Canberra University, the Uni-versity of Warwick and The University of Surrey. He held the position of senior fel-low at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at Nanyang University and the Civil Service College in Singapore during a sabbatical period in Nanyang.

His paper with Boone on Leadership was the cover article for the Harvard Business Review in November 2007 and also won the Academy of Management aware for the best practitioner paper in the same year. He has previously won a special award from the Academy for originality in his work on knowledge management. He is a edi-torial board member of several academic and practitioner journals in the field of knowledge management and is an Editor in Chief of E:CO. In 2006 he was Director of the EPSRC (UK) research programme on emergence and in 2007 was appointed to an NSF (US) review panel on complexity science research.
He previously worked for IBM where he was a Director of the Institution for Knowledge Management and founded the Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexi-ty; during that period he was selected by IBM as one of six on-demand thinkers for a world wide advertising campaign. Prior to that he worked in a range of strategic and management roles in the service sector.