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- Consolidates the thought leadership on sensemaking for security
- Provides valuable lessons learned and developed approaches to harness sensemaking to support security planning and design
- Supports development of leadership competencies in security and government domain
Part of the book series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications (ASTSA)
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This book presents sensemaking strategies to support security planning and design. Threats to security are becoming complex and multifaceted and increasingly challenging traditional notions of security. The security landscape is characterized as ‘messes’ and ‘wicked problems’ that proliferate in this age of complexity. Designing security solutions in the face of interconnectedness, volatility and uncertainty, we run the risk of providing the right answer to the wrong problem thereby resulting in unintended consequences.
Sensemaking is the activity that enables us to turn the ongoing complexity of the world into a “situation that is comprehended explicitly in words and that serves as a springboard into action” (Weick, Sutcliffe, Obstfeld, 2005). It is about creating an emerging picture of our world through data collection, analysis, action, and reflection. The importance of sensemaking to security is that it enables us to plan, design and act when the world aswe knew it seems to have shifted.
Leveraging the relevant theoretical grounding and thought leadership in sensemaking, key examples are provided, thereby illustrating how sensemaking strategies can support security planning and design. This is a critical analytical and leadership requirement in this age of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity that characterizes the security landscape.
This book is useful for academics, graduate students in global security, and government and security planning practitioners.
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sensemaking for Security
Editors: Anthony J. Masys
Series Title: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71998-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71997-5Published: 01 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72000-1Published: 02 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71998-2Published: 31 May 2021
Series ISSN: 1613-5113
Series E-ISSN: 2363-9466
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 285
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
Topics: Principles and Models of Security, Complex Systems, Security Science and Technology