Strategy Exercise: Basic Competitive analysis

Purpose Comparing the relative position of your company with respect other two competitors. Tips You have the template below. Drawing & thinking Steps Set-up Draw the basis Competitor Mapping Loop Think about three companies: your company and two competitors. Note: the template is prepared for 3 companies, but if the reader considers that adding more … Read more

Estuarine mapping

Background Estuarine Mapping was created by 2017, and the first publication done by Dave Snowden about it is from October 7th 2022. At the moment of the publication of this post, we all are learning about the basis and how to use it. There are two basic concepts that the reader should consider: Steps to … Read more

The Twelve-Factor App

When working in application development space, is important to know some of the best practices that exist in the market. One of them is the Twelve-Factor App, which is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps. It can be used in many ways, in my case it helps me to ask better questions when I’m doing … Read more

Olympic games

Background This is a series of Wardley Maps trying to explore outside the competitive landscape. Using the Olympic Game as example. Starting in 1988 (it’s what I remember). Purpose: Show my view about how a country pride event turned into a commercial event. I don’t like to do maps alone, so feedback is welcomed. Seoul … Read more

The limits of Wardley Maps doctrines

Wardley Map doctrines are very useful and to work on them. It’s a good basis to work on the right environment. Saying it, in my opinion, the doctrines have some aspects that the person using it needs to take into consideration: To be completed

Human-Centered Approach

The identification of user needs is a complex process and during the las 25 years there have been a lot of investigation around this in the software space. In fact there is an ISO that covers the Human Centered approach, ISO 9241-110. Some notes for my memory: Principles of the Human-Centered Approach Activities There are … Read more

Making investment decisions on a map

In what parts of the organization should I invest? This is something that comes from common sense (the less common of the senses). And it is that the understanding of the business priorities, the purpose of the company, the context where you are in a given moment, etc. all that is going to be part … Read more

Bike A-Thon next June 11th

Third time I’m supporting the American Cancer Society. I acquired my dorsal to participate during this bike route from Philadelphia to Atlantic City (66.5 miles). If you want to donate, you can do it here. Many thanks