Coach & Consultant on Thinking. Former Futurist. Personal Coaching @ http://indy.london ; Business Coaching and Human-AI consulting @ http://enoptron.com
Critical Systems Thinking uses various systems thinking approaches to generate multiple partial perspectives that may be useful in making strategic choices when faced with a problem or opportunity - choices that are likely to put value creation at risk or create added value.
It also uses a multi-disciplinary approach, to benefit from the generating... See more
I think of the strategy frameworks for more stable environments as castle-building (e.g., Michael Porter’s five forces framework) or chess (e.g., the resource-based view proposed by Jay Barney); that’s in contrast to strategy in dynamic environments, which is more like surfing, where you try to be... See more
BCG suggests there are five strategic approaches to consider, and each is “optimal in different situations” whilst "each requires entirely different capabilities, processes, and tools.” They are:
1. The Classical Approach which is appropriate when operating in “environments with low unpredictability and low malleability”
Different strategic approaches for different conditions
Creativity is the world’s greatest recycling program. I like how Nike designer Tinker Hatfield framed it, via @bpoppenheimer newsletter:
“When you sit down to create something...what you create is a culmination of everything you’ve seen and done previous to that point.” https://t.co/OOvK9fSPdZ
You're under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.
Because there is no one way to organize projects and workloads, no software can be everything for modern workers. You may find yourself really loving one of these programs—and that’s great! But the utility of software like Jira lies with actual programmers. Smaller, more job-specific software, like Clio for lawyers, is more likely to address the... See more