Is the problem big enough to justify this solution?
Value of equation. If the seriousness of the outweighs the cost of solving it, there is a basis for a successful sale. Neil Rackham (1988)
Year 5, Q3 Just books
During year 5 – Q2 I have focused on Wardley Maps and reading books. Unfortunately to me, I have to deaccelerate the workload of activities. So it will be a soft learning quarter on the schedule. The plan So the V2MOM for this quarter will be: Vision: Read, read and read. Values: Read things related to strategy and other … Read more
Burja mapping
What is it? It’s a stakeholder analysis tool where power, vitality and alignment is being considered. It’s not a replacement of Wardley Maps, it’s a complement to Wardley Maps. All concepts around a Burja map happens thanks to the Empire Theory, and the consideration of power. So let’s start with it. Empire theory Empire Theory … Read more
The finite and infinite game
This is the title of a book written by James P. Carse. On that book you can find that there are different attitudes you can have on the game. These strategic attitudes define the approach. We can apply these attitudes depending on the context, but what is crucial is to detect what are the other … Read more
Teams of Teams
This book written by General Stanley McChrystal is part of the readings I’m doing as part of a book-club readings. I have discovered things as: Scientific management by Frederick Taylor, Reductionist approach, Revision of the beginning of the manufacturing industry. The rest of the book is full of anecdotes and other stories that are very common … Read more
How Apple protects its platform
Apple ecosystem is composed by many elements. This basic components could be drawn on a map like this: Notice that I have drawn the devices and the applications as pipelines, as there are many of them and there is evolution in each one of these major elements. For instance: Gameplays to protect their platform Let’s … Read more
Weak signals
When discussing about future scenarios, we figure out assumptions, boundaries and characteristics that could make such scenario to happen. Related to this, the appearance of these future scenarios depends on signals: strong and weak signals. A strong signal is a phenomenon or thing that causes evident changes on the scenario. For instance, COVID-19 or a … Read more
Identifying and breaking down inertia
Purpose of this article I am going to theorize about a phenomenon, inertia. When theorizing I am going to leave many things behind, but this simplification often allows the listener to differentiate what is important from what is superfluous. The context Things rarely happened as planned, in a world where information is asymmetric and many … Read more
Never split the difference
This book written by Chris Voss is a classic recommended by a friend. I started reading without so much expectations, but there have been sections that are really interesting and that give concrete advice about how to negotiate. Negotiation is an art that needs to be practiced and understand how to do it better is … Read more
CRISP-DM methodology
The cross-industry standard process for data mining or CRISP-DM is an open standard process framework model for data mining project planning, created in 1996. The process of CRISP-DM is into 6 phases or components: Business understanding – What does the business need? Data understanding – What data do we have / need? Is it clean? Data preparation – How do we organize … Read more