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OpenTeams and Organization 2.0: SIDEARM Presentation to the Business Complexity Conference

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OpenTeams and Organization 2.0. Web-hosted collaborative software pioneering a better way to work in the 21st century. Wednesday, October 20, 2010. SIDEARM Presentation to the Business Complexity Conference. I partnered up with Howard Park. To submit a paper to the Business Complexity and The Global Leader Conference. Held this week at Suffolk University in Boston. The paper is titled SIDEARM (Self-organizing for Innovation, Decisions, Engagement, Action, and Risk Mitigation). The Bossless Organization w...

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Business Complexity and the Global Leader | Business Analytics for a Complex World

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Business Analytics for a Complex World. Tools, methods, anecdotes, and observations from clients, mentors, books and other sources. Business Complexity and the Global Leader. Why do companies fail? We have smart people, lots of data, lots of resources, and sometimes even a successful track record. Can we learn something from how cities have grown, Rome prospered and fell, Sahara villages sustain (or decline), flocks of birds migrate? If you are interested, you can download some of the presentations here.

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You give complex diagrams… a bad name | Business Analytics for a Complex World

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Business Analytics for a Complex World. Tools, methods, anecdotes, and observations from clients, mentors, books and other sources. You give complex diagrams… a bad name. It’s not often that a Powerpoint page makes it to the front page of a national newspaper. Perhaps you’ve seen this page. It’s become its own meme. It was ridiculed by many, including Jon Stewart. And probably many of your Facebook. There’s a certain fluency required in understanding a complex causal loop diagram. What does this mean?

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How Much Oil is Leaking in the Gulf? | Business Analytics for a Complex World

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Business Analytics for a Complex World. Tools, methods, anecdotes, and observations from clients, mentors, books and other sources. How Much Oil is Leaking in the Gulf? The oil continues to leak, and we are now starting see the oil hit the shores. We have live images from the leak 5,000 feet below the water surface. But how much oil is actually leaking from the wellhead? Is now at 35,000 – 60,000 barrels/day. When the late May estimates came out, there was an interesting quote from Ira Leifer. Based on m...

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Bubble Charts — What does the size mean? | Business Analytics for a Complex World

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Business Analytics for a Complex World. Tools, methods, anecdotes, and observations from clients, mentors, books and other sources. Bubble Charts — What does the size mean? A few weeks back, there was a short article in the WSJ. 8216;s recent acquisitions. A very prominent bubble chart accompanied the article (in both print and on-line). For the article in question, using a bubble chart makes sense. The punchline is something like, “wow, look at the size of the acquisitions! Reading through the article (...

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Now I See It! (The link between visualization and creativity) | Business Analytics for a Complex World

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Business Analytics for a Complex World. Tools, methods, anecdotes, and observations from clients, mentors, books and other sources. Now I See It! The link between visualization and creativity). We are visual people. We recall past events by the mental picture we see (or create). Words are powerful and can be precise, of course, but visual images can often leave very strong and lasting impressions in our minds. Instead, I am talking about the mental work of visualizing something. In a recent TechCrunch.

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Guessing how many jelly beans in a jar | Business Analytics for a Complex World

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Business Analytics for a Complex World. Tools, methods, anecdotes, and observations from clients, mentors, books and other sources. Guessing how many jelly beans in a jar. How many jelly beans in a jar? Or odd shaped Lego pieces of differing size? What if the container is oddly-shaped? Or we have multiple jars? I always enjoy a good estimation challenge and find it difficult to pass up a chance to “make a guess and win it all! 8221; So what are some good strategies? 8221; Then they give up. 3a Having sai...

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Are you good at estimating? | Business Analytics for a Complex World

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Business Analytics for a Complex World. Tools, methods, anecdotes, and observations from clients, mentors, books and other sources. Are you good at estimating? But how good are we at estimating? Here is a little exercise. On a sheet of paper, write down 1 through 10 on the left side of the page. Next to each number, draw two blanks, so that you can provide two answers for each number. Like this:. And so on to “10”. What was the production cost of “Gone with the Wind”? But don’t scroll down or click...