Strategy as a structural act (not a slide deck). Posts on how organizations decide what to do and what to refuse.
I was familiar with “Weniger aber besser”. But until I started diving into Linux vs. Unix (as a result of my week in Vegas) I’d never heard of “Worse is Better.” It’s a concept in software engineering that indicates an inverse relationship between quality and functionality (more functionality
Super Bowl spending; Robots; Defining Strategy; Loyalty Cards r Bad; Disruption & Airbnb; How to win championships.
Build discoverable complexity (otherwise known as interestingness) into your business and brand.
These are all really two tips: focus on service and execution; if it’s not working, get out.
Remember Commander’s Intent? Basically: a nugget of communicable strategy that helps a team make effective decisions in the face of changing conditions. It’s primarily a military thing, but since we use words like “campaign” a lot (whatup, Cannes?) I think we’re allowed to continue our appropriation of
Numerical weather modeling splits up the globe into a series of three-dimensional pixels. It applies a ton of math to the data representing each of those pixels to make predictions about the movement, intensity and impact of weather systems. These predictions are generated by specific models developed by groups of
Guess the source of this slide; Empathy; Seinfeld on Jokecraft; Flight Manual for the U2; Interestingness defined.
I give you another military process that can be applied to business strategy and organization design. It’s called "Commander’s Intent" (CI) and it’s designed to create durability through simplicity and openness to interpretation: "Plans are useful, in the sense that they are proof that
Examining the ways in which structure changes what gets published, and why
Last week, my lovely and talented colleague Vlad wrote about three steps to eliminate/mitigate risks in strategy – understand, assess, neutralize – and offered a chart that caught my eye. Vlad adapted a piece of HBR chartery that was fundamentally similar to a Boris Cube, something used by aerospace engineers to
If you’re reading this, you know that digital technology has changed things. You know that in a single year, humans create more information than they have in all of history up to that point. You know that your customers are inundated with more information than their brains can handle.
High-quality strategies in ecosystems offer four things: loud feedback; flexibility in acceptable outcomes; shared indicators for failure and success; recognized connection points.
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