Cognitive maps

[FAIEZ]

Hi all

Dear effectuators help please.

I ask if effectuation can be studied by cognitive maps method
(Cossette 2008).

Is their are any epistimological contradictions between effectuation
and cognitive maps?

What is the minimum number of cases studies (cognitive maps) in
effectuation context?

best regards
Thank's in advance

[Dennis Stauffer]

Faiez

I'm a non-academic member of the Effectuation Group. (I think the proper
term is interloper. ;-) I've joined because it relates so closely to the
work and research I do around innovation...and by extension
entrepreneurship.

As I've become familiar with this work, my personal opinion is that
cognitive maps (or mental models as I refer to them) are precisely what
Effectual Thinking is about...and it's a very powerful way of thinking about
entrepreneurial challenges because it's discretionary and therefore
developmental, for individuals and for organizations.

I'm still getting up to speed on all the impressive work that's going on
around Effectual Thinking and gradually integrating it into my own thinking
about both entrepreneurship and innovation. A colleague and I have developed
a psychometric assessment instrument to measure some specific mental models
that I believe are crucial to being innovative (which includes
entrepreneurs, who I would argue are the ultimate innovators). This
instrument was not informed by the Effectual research (I wasn't aware of it
yet), but I do think it gets at essentially the same issues. We are
attempting to undertake a study to see how predictive it may be of someone's
likely success as an entrepreneur. It's greatest value, as with Effectual
Thinking, is that what it measures can be learned. So anyone can develop the
necessary skills, which we believe we are measuring.

You (or anyone else reading this) can learn more about our research at our
website www.innovatormindset.com. We would welcome anyone's interest in
this, either as researchers or otherwise.

Let me know if you'd like to discuss any of this further.

Regards,
Dennis

Dennis Stauffer, Chief Innovator

Innovation Mindset

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