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Wardley Mapping contains the concept of “practice” and the climatic pattern of “co-evolution of practice”. But for forecasting purposes I always see it better with the concept of attractor created by Richard Rumelt. I have drawn an example, that I hope it’s clear. The microwave existed since the 40s, but they became popular in the … Read more
In the book “A New Way to Think” Roger L. Martin does a distinction between the classic model of strategic thinking and an alternative for 14 different aspects of the companies. I have summarized it in a table, so I can review from time to time. Classic model Alternative model Competition Holds that corporations compete, … Read more
This is the presentation done by Matthias Patzak in AWS Re:Invent. The pdf file of the presentation is here. I loved the vision about how leaders should invest their time and money:
OKRs and Wardley maps can be combined and enable you to have benefits from both sides. Where can specifically this combination help? Using both together you can provide a comprehensive approach to strategic planning and execution, combining goal setting and progress tracking with a deep understanding of the business environment. Wardley Maps does not gives … Read more
The news is in the title, the interesting part is the reflection on these tweets: The only moats are execution, distribution, and top-of-mindedness (your brand being ingrained in a customer’s habit loop). Nothing else really matters. This is just one of the thousand of examples of the appliance of Innovation, leverage, commoditize gameplay on LLMs … Read more
Everybody loves to be disruptive, but to be disruptive is complex, difficult and only in the hands on some few companies. When dealing with workshops sometimes I face the situation where something is drawn with high value/visibility for the consumer/user and tagged as something new, in its genesis. Some people agree with the fact that … Read more
Nice review of some of the concepts described by John Boyd in the context of business. Agility The essence of agility and applying Boyd’s ideas to any form of competition is to keep one’s orientation well matched to the real world during times of ambiguity, confusion, and rapid change, when the natural tendency is to … Read more
User acquisition is the process of increasing the number of users for a mobile app using marketing techniques to raise awareness of a mobile app and connect it with people who need this app. User Acquisition is one of the KPIs of a mobile app marketing plan and implies defining marketing channels, developing text and … Read more
This is an overview of the strategic pattern named Falcon, proposed by Patrick Hoverstadt and Lucy Loh on their book Patterns of Strategy. Warning: I’m experimenting here. Any constructive feedback is welcome. I will be using the OpenAI Vs Google for this exercise. This topic is already being commented here: Microsoft, Google, Chat GPT, Bard … Read more
Below some notes about this book written by Patrick Hoverstadt and Lucy Loh. Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions Henry Mintzberg There are 3 dimensions in patterns of strategy: During the strategic thinking process, to become aware of the forces at work in your organization is one of the primary duties. Dimensions … Read more