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3 days ago

Second Opinion on Elon Musk’s Twitter 2.0

Mission — In October 2022, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk made headlines when he acquired Twitter for $44 billion. Since then, speculation has been rampant about his intentions for the social media platform. In a recent tweet, Musk provided some insight, stating his aim to provide “Trust as a Service” (TaaS):⁠1 We’re going…

Twitter

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Second Opinion on Elon Musk’s Twitter 2.0
Second Opinion on Elon Musk’s Twitter 2.0
Twitter

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Oct 3, 2022

Hierarchy of Strategic Thinking

Business people bandy about words like strategy, innovation and culture all the time, but if you ask people to define what these words mean you’ll get very different answers. So when people repeat well-known phrases such as “culture eats strategy for breakfast” what they’re saying is that something (they can’t…

Strategy

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Hierarchy of Strategic Thinking
Hierarchy of Strategic Thinking
Strategy

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Sep 5, 2022

Chapter 10. Strategy for an Uncertain World

Uncertainty is central to both the Eastern and Western approaches to strategy. The Chinese philosophical tradition – from which Sun Tzu emerged – recognised that, as minor fluctuations in conditions can amplify into dramatic changes, no two situations are ever identical and therefore no universal recipes can exist. While Clausewitz…

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Chapter 10. Strategy for an Uncertain World
Chapter 10. Strategy for an Uncertain World

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Jun 29, 2022

Introduction: Why “Best Practices” Hold You Back

One day a clever hedgehog came to a wide river and was determined to cross it. Being a clever hedgehog he knew how to build bridges, so he set about building one over this river. Half-way done he stopped to admire his work. Looking back at the riverbank he saw…

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Introduction: Why “Best Practices” Hold You Back
Introduction: Why “Best Practices” Hold You Back

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Mar 20, 2022

Chapter 7. Honda-Yamaha War of Natural Selection

What lessons can we learn from the Eastern approach to strategy when dealing with, for example, the kind of competitive threat Honda posed to Britain’s champions in the US motorcycle industry? Perhaps fortunately we have a case showing exactly what Honda did, a decade later, when their leading position was…

Strategy

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Chapter 7. Honda-Yamaha War of Natural Selection
Chapter 7. Honda-Yamaha War of Natural Selection
Strategy

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Feb 7, 2022

Removing your organisation’s biggest source of waste

In any large organisation people are often building things that already exist somewhere else in the same organisation. They’re not doing this because they’re stupid. They’re re-building what you already have because they simply have no systematic way of knowing what other silos in the organisation are doing. …

Wardley Maps

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Removing your organisation’s biggest source of waste
Removing your organisation’s biggest source of waste
Wardley Maps

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Jan 31, 2022

How do you make your projects more successful?

It may seem counterintuitive but, to increase your project team’s chances of creating something of value may require reducing budgets, team size and deadline. …

Wardley Maps

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How do you make your projects more successful?
How do you make your projects more successful?
Wardley Maps

3 min read


Dec 2, 2021

Why AGILE is not THE answer

A few weeks ago I wrote about how companies using Wardley Maps (well) for strategy, execution and organisational improvement often seem to be operating a decade or more ahead of others in the game. I discussed how the ‘Pioneer-Settler-Town Planner’ model in the Wardley Maps method (organising around different attitudes…

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Why AGILE is not THE answer
Why AGILE is not THE answer

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Nov 29, 2021

Remove duplication & bias

In any large organisation there are people building things that already exist somewhere else in the organisation. They’re not doing this because they’re evil or stupid. They’re doing this because they simply have no systematic way of knowing what other silos in the organisation are doing. Left unchecked this situation…

Wardley Maps

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Remove duplication & bias
Remove duplication & bias
Wardley Maps

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Nov 10, 2021

How do you make your projects more successful?

It may seem counterintuitive but, to increase your project team’s chances of creating something of value, may require reducing budgets, team size and deadlines. …

Wardley Maps

3 min read

How do you make your projects more successful?
How do you make your projects more successful?
Wardley Maps

3 min read

Marcus Guest

Marcus Guest

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Making strategy simple to enable organisations to make smarter moves. marcus@powermaps.net PowerMaps.net

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