The Importance of Understanding the Problem in Strategy:

The book, ‘What’s Your Problem’ shares a startling statistic, “85 percent of companies often struggle to solve the right problems” — this figure raises a common issue which most firms face. The process of unpacking a problem can at times be rushed, resulting in; “wasted deployment of resources, failure to capitalise on opportunities, negative impacts to a company’s culture and a misalignment of corporate strategy”. As mentioned by Peter Drucker, “nothing is more dangerous in business than the right answer to the wrong question”.

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Are Strategic Frameworks Useful?

At its core, a Strategic Framework is structured with the intention to be utilised as a guideline, provide understanding, remove uncertainties and provide information in a logical process to form a comprehensive perspective when analysing a situation.

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The Startup Blueprint

How to move from Ideation to Commercialisation when taking an idea and wanting to create a new venture — the 4 step framework

The Man Who Lied To His Laptop

The Man Who Lied To His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships by Clifford Nass:  Themes:Human RelationshipCommunicationPsychologyManagementEmotional Intelligence Story and Narrative: Is it possible to understand the elements of human interaction with the aid of computers?  We spend many hours in front of these thoughtless devices, and Clifford Nass uses computer interaction as the…

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Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Speaking to the Machine.

An outsider’s view looking in. Brief overview: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ML and AI) has recently become the talk of the town – AI could even be classed as ‘THE’ hype word of the technology sector in 2016. As explained by Shivon Zillis, the conversation has moved from academics and founders in 2015 to…

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2017 and beyond!

Today I post the first (Of many I hope…) book reviews from a recent reading I have finished. I have set myself some key goals for the year and writing a book review at least once a month is one of those goals. In quick summary, here are my Three Goals for 2017: 1) I plan…

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