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"Institutionalizing Data-Driven Decision Making"
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Weick et al (2005) summarize the process:
Sensemaking involves the ongoing retrospective development of plausible images that rationalize what people are doing. Viewed as a significant process of organization, sensemaking unfolds as a sequence in which people concerned with identity in the social context of other actors engage ongoing circumstances from which they extract cues and make plausible sense retrospectively, while enacting more or less order into those circumstances. ( p.409)
In other words, people socially construct their world as they interact with others and their environment.
Sensemaking is essentially a theory about how human, cognitive and socially, process information and act upon their world. By nature, sensemaking is incremental, fluid, and recursive. The process always begins with “chaos” as a person or group attempt to organize the constant flood of information that surrounds them (Weick et al., 2005). The first step in organizing begins with attending to certain cues and then bracketing information from their experiences. This is then followed by a process of labeling and categorizing in an effort to construct meaning.
More specifically, Weick and colleagues (2005) stress the seven underlying dimensions of sensemaking. First, sensemaking is grounded in identity construction. Echoing the postmodern turn on identity (Castells, Moya), sensemaking is an iterative process in which images of oneself and others are constantly constructed and reconstructed. Second, sensemaking is always retrospective in that the process involves the reliance on pre-existing beliefs and experiences to make sense of a current situation. Third, sensemaking is a social activity because conversations and narratives are the main modes of the sensemaking process. Fourth, sensemaking is ongoing without a formal beginning or end. Fifth, sensemaking relies on enactment theory, the belief that people produce part of their environment. That is, people have agency because their interpretations shape a situation, which then influences the trajectory of the future. Sixth, people make meaning by selecting information (i.e., “extracting cue”). They pay attention to salient cues, linking them to pre-existing knowledge that helps clarify the meaning of the cue. Finally, sensemaking is driven by the notion of plausibility (i.e., what is credible or coherent) rather than accuracy. Thus, sensemaking is a process theory in which perceptions, interpretations, and actions build on each other (Weber & Glynn, 2006).
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