Twitter bots
Yesterday I posted a tweet with 5 comments. Around 10 min later, 5 likes, 1 per comment. All comments done by different “Cora” (with 5 to 20 followers each one) Is is common for you guys?
Crossing a mountain pass
To move an organization from its Genesis to Custom build is like to take a small expedition from one valley to other. You have to prepare all, wait till the window of opportunity is opened (weather or climatic patterns), knowing that uncertainties can happen. In the “genesis” valley you leave some assets that you cannot … Read more
Year 6, Q4 The flow system, Estuarine mapping, test workshop formats
This quarter I want to diversify in the things I learn, knowing that it will not be a lot of deep learning, but investigation about what to do in deep. The flow system seem to be a good tool for solving problems in organizations, and this is something that I want to dig in. Estuarine … Read more
Atlassian acquired Loom
Congratulations to the sellers. First action perceived by regular users: “No more download video“ I guess this was part of the deal and let’s see what is the direction they take. Questions that come to mind
Does the fourth industrial revolution have a new path?
I write this for my poor memory, it’s an article product from the research work done during 2022 with other 16 people and organized by DXC Leading Forum Edge. This research work was organized by Simon Wardley and I enjoyed a lot the format and the experience of learning from others in the manufacturing space. … Read more
Are you disruptive? Are you honest?
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
Evolution research results
Simon Wardley performs different data analysis and research studies on the evolution of certain areas of the organizations and companies. First study, 2011 The first study of this nature was done in 2011, and it showed emergence of a cell based, ecosystem driven organization using DevOps practices (chaos engines, distributed capability aka scale out, continuous … Read more
Books delivered in different days
I purchased 8 copies of a book I wrote for a training course I organized. It’s not the first time I do this, but this time something fun happens. Seven have been delivered (“entregado”), one is delayed (“demorado”). In a tweeted I sent I added “#Amazon” as hashtag asking: “I would love to understand the … Read more
Platform user, you just have the usufruct
Everything you use on a platform is not yours (name, alias, configuration…) you only have the usufruct. I have seen people claiming that a platform stole his/her nickname. Other people claiming that some of the changes done in the user data policy is not “fair”. Every day, I read comments about some related to it. … Read more
From Certain to Win by Chet Richards
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