page_title: Cynefin framework
hierarchical_section_title: Cynefin framework
caption_attribution_description: English: Modification of Simple domain to 'Obvious', additional descriptive material for each domain
context_page_description: The Cynefin framework is a conceptual framework used to aid decision-making. Created in 1999 by Dave Snowden when he worked for IBM Global Services, it has been described as a "sense-making device". Cynefin is a Welsh word for habitat.
  Cynefin offers five decision-making contexts or "domains"—obvious, complicated, complex, chaotic, and disorder—that help managers to identify how they perceive situations and make sense of their own and other people's behaviour. The framework draws on research into systems theory, complexity theory, network theory and learning theories.
context_section_description: The Cynefin framework (/kəˈnɛvɪn/ kuh-NEV-in) is a conceptual framework used to aid decision-making. Created in 1999 by Dave Snowden when he worked for IBM Global Services, it has been described as a "sense-making device". Cynefin is a Welsh word for habitat.
  Cynefin offers five decision-making contexts or "domains"—obvious (known until 2014 as simple, more recently renamed to clear by Snowden), complicated, complex, chaotic, and disorder—that help managers to identify how they perceive situations and make sense of their own and other people's behaviour. The framework draws on research into systems theory, complexity theory, network theory and learning theories.
caption: Domains of the Cynefin framework; the dark domain in the centre is disorder.
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