Seeing clearly through the fog of complexity

Seeing clearly through the fog of complexity

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Seeing clearly through the fog of complexity

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Seeing Clearly Through 
the Fog of Complexity
Thomas Vander Wal 
20 February 2024 
for: Complex…
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Thomas Vander Wal 
27 February 2024 
Presented to: Complexity Lounge
Seeing Clearly Through the …
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Intro to Complexity Lenses
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Who are the Complexity Lenses for?
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Complexity Lenses are for:
Organizations 
who are scaling
Mid-sized organizations 
through ente…
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80+ Complexity Lenses
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Complexity Lenses Started With…
March 2002, this results in a Model of Attraction, 
as we don’t g…
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The Model of Attraction lead to, the Come to Me Web / Come 
to Me Intranet, where feeds, agents…
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Complexity Lenses Started With…
In 2008 a friend stated, in Twitter, that 3D modeling 
of data wa…
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Many of the lenses come out of 
applying various social sciences and 
related research to tec…
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Today I have teased more than 80 Complexity Lenses 
out of my work from the late 1990s to late…
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The Map is not the Territory
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The Model is Not Reality
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Lenses Work to Move Unknowns to Knowns
Issue / Problem
Solution
Known
Known
Unknown
Unknown
…
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Facilitation 80+ Lenses at a High Level
User / Use Work Focus
Use 
Environment
Social / 
Netwo…
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Lens > Elements > Components
Complexity Lenses Dimensions
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Through greater understanding 
you have greater ability to make 
successful decisions
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Social Lenses
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Social Progression 
of Fire
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Camp Bon Spark Torchfifirere
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Differing Social 
Perspectives
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Differing Perspectives
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Personal
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Collective
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Cooperative 
Team / Group / Community / Network
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Team
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Group
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Community
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Network
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Collaborative
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Collective Cooperative 
Team / Group / Community / Network
Collaborative
Communication Layer
So…
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Awareness of Quiet Perspectives
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Newbie
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Service Owner
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External Developer
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Depth Perspective
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Depth of Use Perspective
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Non-user
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Non-contributing Collective User
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Non-contributing Selective User
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Light Contributing User
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Heavy Contributing User
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Perspective Matrix
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Matrix of Perspectives
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Depth of User Perspective
Non-user
Non-contributing User Contributor
Collective Selective Light …
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Scaling and Roles
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Social Scaling
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Scaling and Functionality
People 
Participating
# of Objects in System
A
A - Personal Use
B
…
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Dave Snowden’s 
Cynefin Framework
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Right Fitting Digital Work Activities to Appropriate Scale
Network
Community
Group
Team / Small…
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Team, Their Networks & Network Effects
The team is the core activity environment where work gets d…
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Team Needs
Tasks
Team 
Fit
Process & 
Planning
Progress
Status
Calendar
Comms Shared 
Res…
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Roles
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Roles
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Traditional Roles
• Functional Role 
• Hierarchy Role (management) 
• Organizational Placement
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Social Roles
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Social Roles
• Beyond Admin & User... 
• Role name / type 
• Role’s tasks 
• Role’s needs
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• Sharer • Lurker • Writer / Creator • Editor • Curator • Connector • Synthesizer • Theorizer • Mit…
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Model of Attraction
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The Focus of the Web has 
Changed
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Was
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I Go Get
• We sought “their” information 
• Focus on content provider 
• One device 
• One use …
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Is
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Come To Me
• Our information we found or created 
• Focus on person using 
• Reuse 
• Attractin…
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Intellectual Perceptual
Physical Mechanical
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InfoClouds
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InfoClouds
Personal
InfoCloud
Local 
InfoCloud
Global InfoCloud
External InfoCloud
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Work
Organizations
Affiliations
Location Social 
Software
Near in 
Thought
Portals
Friends
…
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Folksonomy
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Folksonomy Definition
❖ Folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of pages 
and objects f…
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Folksonomy Triad
Object Identity
Metadata
Interest
Vocabulary
Definition
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Dual Folksonomy Triad
Object Identity
Metadata
Definition
Vocabulary
Terminology
Interest
Cu…
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Finding More Objects
Metadata
Object 1 Identity Object 2
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Folksonomy 
vs. 
Taxonomy
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Taxonomy Folksonomy
Business Customer
Product
Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy
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Taxonomy Folksonomy
Taxonomy & Folksonomy
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70% of Folksonomy tag terms 
not in Taxonomy 
J. Trant regarding Steve.museum
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Compensating
Taxonomy Folksonomy
+ Structure - Messy
+ Efficiency - Difficult Findability
+ Sol…
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Thank you!
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