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I need to remind this post of Simon Wardley’s blog which contains a great explanation of how to define a strategy, how to assess it. “Situational awareness: the strategy always starts from WHERE, then you can clearly articulate WHY you are making a specific choice.” “Using visual representation (the board, the map) to articulate encounters … Read more
Wine box done during a rainy Saturday morning. The next “do it yourself” will be based on this fantastic project: www.opendesk.cc
This is the situation we are living during last couple of years: You go to Linkedin and you will find the traditional Marketing companies hiring a good bunch of UX specialists, developers, mobile architects, sdlc project managers… IT companies are acquiring marketing agencies, and adding new practice to their consulting portfolio. Big corporations are defining … Read more
I found this series of 3 videos in Strategy& (just 16 minutes) Part 1: Why strategy matters, Part 2: Take your strategy from paper to pavement, Part 3: Transform your company and your industry. This launched me to look for Capabilities-Driven Strategy: It’s June, I finished the book, I liked the examples and the differentiation … Read more
I continue making changes in the way I work, this time a change in the office for improve the ergonomic aspects of my day to day. Before start, to find the right size for a 192 cm person was not easy at all. The second hurdle was to blow-up with the right pressure so the … Read more
There are differences when looking for a job in USA and in EMEA. These are the ones I found by myself. Applying to a vacancy: Europe: no personal questions. USA: ask for gender, race, disabilities and if you are a veteran. Relationship, recommendations Europe: good, not mandatory. USA: it’s key you have a recommendation inside … Read more
This article is large, it takes more than 10 minutes to be read in detail but it gives a very good perspective about the software companies over 1B$, the perspective of VC, consumer and enterprise oriented companies, how they are formed and some other data that provides a good perspective of the market. http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/02/welcome-to-the-unicorn-club/ Who … Read more
It’s not 100% done but we almost finished the main work of the whole thing. This is the result:
I love this type of visual representations, that I can use for different purposes.
When change is required, and you are defining the actions you want to put in place, you have to define properly the actions and its sequence. In the same way the see builds the line of the coast with destructive and constructive waves, on a transformation program or change initiative you can have these two … Read more