Lisa Fu
@lisaishere
Lisa Fu
If the opposite of your strategy is a bad strategy, then your strategy is not a good strategy. Arguably, you’re just avoiding stupidity.
In the almost five years that I’ve been leading CPI ANZ, we’ve never had a “strategic plan.”
Each year, at the beginning of the year, I write a “CPI ANZ vision” which I share with the board. But I’ve been resistant to developing the more traditional 2-5 year strategic plan. And I’ve been thinking about why.
The reason is because most strategic plans
... See moreIf validate is a permanent fixture for you or your team consider balancing the possible priming by pairing it with invalidate as in… let’s test the design to validate or invalidate it. Even better just say evaluate. It feels too good to be proven right.
Just enough research - Erika hall
Strategist and designer overlap ..
Jake’s version
Forecasting is often vibes. But so is expertise
Often experts apply their knowledge in unfamiliar or uncertain situations. “How much will this policy decrease child poverty” “Will Biden leave in the next 3 days” “Will I feel better after taking painkillers?” “How much will sea levels rise?”
docs.google.com
Just because you’ve got numbers attached to something doesn’t mean it means something or isn’t “made up”
These bedazzled methods fall under the category that Futurist Ilkka Tuomi labels as Epistemic Uncertainty , and the argument goes something like this:
However, as Tuomi astutely... See more
“I’m unsure about the answer to this problem, but I can solve it by gathering more data. Once I gather more data related to the problem, I will be able to devise a solution.”
However, as Tuomi astutely... See more
The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
Quant vs qual metrics
The Chinese symbol for crisis 危机 is composed of two elements: one signifies danger and the other opportunity.
