Sensemaking Recipe

Organizational Sensemaking

People in organizations actively construct the environment that they attend to.

Sensemaking Recipe

. Inputs Processes Outputs

Enactment

Raw data from the environment

Bracket raw data

Create new features of the environment to focus sensemaking

Equivocal data as raw data for sensemaking

Selection

Equivocal data from enactment process

Enacted interpretations that worked before

Select and impose meanings or interpretations on equivocal data

Enacted or meaningful environment

Retention

Enacted environment from selection process

Storage of enacted environment as product of successful sensemaking

Enacted interpretations for use in future ESR sequences

.	Inputs	Processes	Outputs
Enactment	Raw data from the environment	Bracket raw data Create new features of the environment to focus sensemaking	Equivocal data as raw data for sensemaking
Selection	Equivocal data from enactment process Enacted interpretations that worked before	Select and impose meanings or interpretations on equivocal data	Enacted or meaningful environment
Retention	Enacted environment from selection process	Storage of enacted environment as product of successful sensemaking	Enacted interpretations for use in future ESR sequences