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Apply Weick's sensemaking theory to analyze how individuals and organizations construct meaning from ambiguous situations.
Passed 21 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 13 of 22 without it.
and 7 more in the full report
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One of 9 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
Can you conduct an organizational sensemaking analysis on how our engineering team handled last month's cascading system outage? The incident started with vague monitoring alerts and escalated rapidly as engineers tried different quick fixes. Please format the report starting with the triggering incident details and timeframe. Follow that with a table evaluating the key properties of sensemaking, including evidence and how each impacted their interpretation. Then, detail where sensemaking broke down, and end with a numbered list of downstream consequences on team actions.
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| Explains that the engineers' actions (quick fixes) preceded and created their framing of the problem rather than assuming diagnosis occurred before action. | Passed | Passed |
| Identifies how a plausible working story was adopted over full diagnostic accuracy to allow immediate troubleshooting. | Passed | Passed |
| Includes the exact sub-heading `### Triggering Event`. | Missed | Passed |
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Sensemaking theory, developed by Karl Weick, explains how people structure the unknown by placing stimuli into frameworks that enable comprehension and action. It is fundamentally retrospective, social, and ongoing — people discover what they think by looking at what they have done.
IRON LAW: Sensemaking is retrospective — people make sense of situations
AFTER they act, not before. Any analysis that assumes actors first
understood the situation and then decided what to do reverses the
causal order of sensemaking.
Key assumptions:
Select the ambiguous or disruptive event that triggered sensemaking. Define the temporal boundaries.
test cases passed, vs 13 / 22 without
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