The Cognitome Iceberg

STABILITY ENGINEERING – Volume 9 www.manhattanproject20.com 1 117-122-D The Cognitome Iceberg: The Invisible Past That Stabilizes the Present Why Today's Enterprise Is Only the Visible Surface of Decades of Accumulated Learning 1. The Enterprise We See Is Only the Tip Systems Thinking has long used the Iceberg metaphor to explain why visible events represent only a small portion of what actually drives a system. Above the waterline we see: • events, • outcomes, • incidents, • behaviors.