Abstract
The increasing number of disruptive events triggers requirements for creating different ways of proceeding with organisational practices. The processes of making sense of the organisational environment may need structural changes so that disruptive events are not that surprising. Scholars have pointed to sensemaking originating from uncertainty, yet organisations need constantly make sense of their environment for signs of disruptions. Further, an increasing number of disruptive events provide a need to develop sensemaking practices to reduce different types of uncertainties. In this developmental paper, we investigate the process of making sense of disruptive events as part of the organisational environment. The existing theory is explored, and the insights are discussed with empirical examples. In future, a new way to approach sensemaking will be suggested.