Two very good friends of mine are a bit special. Despite their intelligence and normally being trustworthy and of excellent judgement, for some inexplicable reason they absolutely love Eurovision. I …
Urgency, duration and CD3 prioritisation
Interesting question from the resident DJ Rough: Urgent Optimism and how it can drive behaviour: gamification.co/2013/02/14/how… So, is Cost Of Delay entering into gamification? /cc @joshuajames — Dan Rough (@danrough) …
Value: a framework for thinking
How might we think about the potential value of the products and services we could develop? Is there some way of structuring our thoughts so as to more quickly surface …
Lessons on speed: Samsung and Apple
The Cost of Delay for organisations that are not market leaders is very high. Whilst companies employing a “Fast Follower” strategy don’t have to invest as much time to discover …
Can you use a Waterfall process and still “be agile”?
A couple of days ago I tweeted a seemingly random thought: “Waterfall is not the opposite of Agile. An organisation may use a waterfall process and still be agile.” Now, …
What’s required: Vision or Passion
My last post about whether genius required the internet for “closed” to beat “open” ended by suggesting that it was actually the passing of time – which none of us …
Apple needed time, not the internet.
There’s been an interesting discussion brewing over the last few days. It all started with Tim Wu presenting his argument that “Open” beats “Closed”. He surmises that Apple only managed …
A History of VFQ: Value, Flow, Quality
Simon Schama’s “A history of Britain” is deliberately titled “A history” rather than “The history” for the simple reason that there are many versions of Britain’s history. In the same …
Delivering in increments: learning from Murdoch’s expensive failure
Rupert Murdoch’s bold experiment, “The Daily”, is dead. The online subscription publication will close its doors on December 15th, after operating for only 21 months. The Daily’s demise provides a great lesson about …
How to make billions of dollars from spare bits
< div>Happy 20th Birthday, SMS. Wow, haven’t you grown?! Sure, you’re still only 160 characters long, but none of us would have guessed 20 years ago how much a part of …
Emergent design and the benefit of hindsight
To keep or not to keep? Imagine, if you will, that it is the late 1800s and your team are designing the city of Paris, France. Your brief is
Planning for success
During the first World War Winston Churchill famously lost his job as First Lord of the Admiralty as a result of the failed
Real Options: Embracing Uncertainty
Delaying a decision as long as possible is often a good idea! Sounds counterintuitive doesn’t it, particularly for those of us with a well developed “sense of urgency” (like me!). …
Systems Thinking and I.T.
Everywhere we look in the system for delivering value with software there are opportunities to make improvements that might work well for one part, but have a negative effect on …