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How A.I. can help you better lead projects and teams

Idea to Value

As I’ve just finished leading an 18-month project, I am reflecting on how project management and leading teams is changing as Artificial Intelligence becomes more common in the workplace. If you have a project or team needing leadership and management, book an appointment with me now and we can speak about how I could help you.

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Ambidextrous organisations: Where innovation should sit in an organisation

Idea to Value

As Steve Blank puts it in his foreword to O’Reilly and Tushman’s latest book on the subject: Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma: Exploitation pays your salary while exploration pays your pension. Option 2: Innovation teams within each company brand / product unit. Companies that survive do both.

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The basket of bad ideas scenario

Jeffrey Phillips

This is what you get when you scour the back catalogues of comic books, looking for ways to extend the franchise just a bit more. A good movie, The Big Short, noted that this same philosophy, mixing up a number of bad loans into a new package, is what caused the sub-prime lending disaster. But I'm sure there's more coming.

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Book Review: A.L.I.E.N. Thinking

Jeffrey Phillips

As you may know, as a noted (ahem) blogger and voracious reader, I am sometimes asked to review books on strategy and innovation. Even after choosing some books to review, I often find myself asking - did the book actually meet my criteria? All this in advance of a book I want to like, but struggle to review, entitled A.L.I.E.N.

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Innovate and Persuade with a Well-Judged Nudge

Destination Innovation

The concept was popularised in the influential book, Nudge, by economists, Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, published in 2008. In 2010 the British Government set up a Behaviourial Insights Team (BIT), which became known as the ‘Nudge Unit’ Its aim was to save at least ten times its running cost.

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Experts can often be Sceptics and Wrong

Destination Innovation

In 1931 a book was published entitled, Hundred Authors against Einstein. The prevailing belief was that diseases were caused by miasma or “bad air.” The theory of plate tectonics, developed in the 1960s, provided the mechanism that explained continental drift, leading to its acceptance.

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Amplifying Ambiguous Risks at Nvidia

Michael Roberto

Cohen draws from a new book by Tae Kim ( The Nvidia Way" ). Leaders and their teams discount warning signs that are unclear and fraught with incomplete information. As a result, organizations miss opportunities to recover from initial problems and develop solutions.