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Strategy and
Complexity

The ‘Innovation Dialogue on Being Strategic in the Face of Complexity’, organized by Wageningen University and Research Centre, aims to explore what it means to ‘be strategic in complex times’. The event, on November 30 and December 1 2009, brings…
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Conference cartoons

06 December 2025

By Mark de Koning

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Video interviews from ‘Innovation Dialogue: Strategy and Complexity’

Louise Stoddard | 06 December 2025

Irene Guijt (Learning by Design) summarizes the worskhop she facilitated on ‘Strategic considerations for theories of change’ and highlights the importance of revising the notion of theories of change to recognize complexity. Rick Davies (…

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More video interviews from ‘Innovation Dialogue: Strategy and Complexity’

Louise Stoddard | 06 December 2025

Jeroen Warner and Annelies Heijmans (Wageningen UR Disasters Studies Group) facilitated a round table on ‘Complexity in disaster and conflict situations’. Jeroen: ‘In disaster situations, interactions can be complex or complicated. Complex situati…

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Conference cartoon: Safe-fail experimenting?

01 December 2025

By Mark de Koning.

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Reflections on day one

Lena Mueller | 01 December 2025

Complexity theory is the hottest new thing in town. For the longest time, development organizations have triggered the public to donate money for good causes by posting simplistic stories on large billboards all over town: ‘With one Euro a month,…

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Some reflections on how outcome mapping relates to complexity

Jan van Ongevalle | 30 November 2025

As I went through the first day, I was trying to relate the various ideas that were shared about being strategic in the face of complexity with the outcome mapping methodology. A good number of these ideas seem to be well accommodated by outcome m…

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Strategic competencies

Seerp Wigboldus | 30 November 2025

Being strategic may mean something different to acting strategically. The latter relates more to what we do and the first relates more to what we are capable of. In terms of ‘what we are capable of’, a view on ‘strategic competencies’ becomes an i…

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Video interview with Dave Snowden

Louise Stoddard | 30 November 2025

Dave Snowden from Cognitive Edge reflects on his keynote presentation and workshop on the Cynefin at the Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation, who organiyed an innovation dialogue on navigating complexity from 30 November-1 December 200…

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Get practical

Pepijn Jansen | 30 November 2025

As the second – and last – day of this conference is coming to an end, people are discussing in small groups how to practically deal with complexity. What will they take home? What will they be doing with all the ideas that emerged, the recommenda…

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Conference cartoons

30 November 2025

A short overview of some of the conference cartoons by Mark de Koning.

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