Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cultural Network Analysis
The text seems |uninformative:''CNA is used to develop cultural models for groups and populations, typically depicted as a network representation of the culturally-shared concepts, causal beliefs, and values that influence key decisions. CNA can be usefully employed for a variety of applications, including developing cultural training programs, characterizing the thinking of audiences to support cross-cultural communications campaigns, and facilitating the development of hybrid team cultures in multinational collaborations.''You also have the familiar categorization of some vaguely defined process into vaguely defined steps that are given titles; you will note that it would have easily been possible to add more or fewer steps:''CNA is a method for building external cultural models that have been extracted from a group, organization, or society. CNA includes specific techniques to: relevant cognitive information from a sample of individuals within a population elements of mental models from the body of information the mental models in terms of their culturally-shared elements across individuals the cultural models in accessible format for a variety of usesCultural Network Analysis encompasses both qualitative, exploratory analysis, and quantitative, confirmatory analysis. The specific techniques used to achieve each step in the analysis depend on whether the cultural analyst is employing exploratory CNA or confirmatory CNA.''The article ''seems'' to have impressive references, but I question whether this is actually a meaningful scientific theory in genuine anthropology, or just someone's Executive Leadership and Team Building musings, of the sort easily assembled by a mind |"gifted with sufficient leisure and vocabulary".  Apart from the Rassmussen/Sieck/Smart papers, the other references seem to be general sources about the themes.  Leaning towards '''delete'''; open to persuasion otherwise.  Article probably wants thorough rewriting in |plain English if kept
— User:Ihcoyc, 16:44, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:NONSENSE||WP:CB||WP:UPE (Wikipedia:Patent nonsense)