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You are what you resource
How do you allocate your resources?
Tradeoffs vs compromises
What compromises are you asking your customers to make?
Little Dish - Jobs To Be Done example
How does a legacy packaged food brand drive growth?
Pitfalls from user interviews
How do you ask the best questions in user interviews?
What is your value curve?
What is the shape of your value offering?
How scorecards power action
Do your team all agree on the best way forward?
What is functional fixedness?
What problems are hidden in plain sight?
What is a commodity?
What happens when your customers are satisfied?
Outcome driven roadmaps
What are the problems with just measuring new features?
What are paired metrics?
How can you ensure maximising one metric is not affecting others?
Andrews' Law
Is the tail wagging the dog?
What is OGSM?
How do you break down company objectives to smaller pieces?
Timeboxing vs Timeblocking
Which is best for productivity?
What is growth hacking?
Do you need to hire a growth hacker?
What is disruptive innovation?
Are you at risk of a low market entrant?
Painkiller vs vitamin
What need does your product / service respond to?
What is a performance surplus?
What happens if you over serve your customers?
What is the Andon cord?
How do you find and fix problems early?
The problems with an unspoken strategy
Everyone has a strategy, whether they have spoken it aloud or not.
What is VSEM?
How does CISCO create alignment and share strategy?
Contrarian view points
What are you thinking differently to?
What is the Time Sector System?
Can you plan tasks by just their date?
Pixar and Strategy
How do Pixar manage reliability and validity?
The problem with better
Will better strategies start to become effective again?
What is PARA?
How can you arrange your work to increase productivity?
Continuous vs discontinuous innovation
How does the type of innovation affect adoption?
Value alignment
Do customers buy what you think you are selling?
Planning is not strategy
What is the difference between planning and strategy?
Opportunity scanning
Where do you start looking for opportunity?
What is non consumption?
Are there markets hidden in plain sight?
What is Jobs To Be Done?
How can you model why people buy certain products / services?
AI and the future of knowledge work
Is AI forcing us to rediscover knowledge work management?
Conway's Law and the knowledge funnel
Have we learnt all the lessons from Conway's Law?
Negative optimisation
How do you avoid running out of levers to pull?
Testing the alignment of teams
How do you check if your teams are aligned?
What is validated learning?
How to you keep ahead of changing demands?
Optimisation and local maxima
When is it time to try something new?
AI and the Lean Startup
Is AI making is more or less lean?
What is the Technology Adoption Lifecycle?
Do you know your customers appetite for your product/service?
What is Enshittification?
Why do products get worse over time?
Why AI is bad at innovation
What should you not ask AI to do in product development?
What is a balanced scorecard?
How do you keep track of all your business activities?
The problem with software
When is it not a good idea to create software?
Combining the S-Curve with the Knowledge Funnel
Can Knowledge Funnels solve the S-Curve maturity problem?
What is the Knowledge Funnel?
How can you use the knowledge funnel to maintain growth in a business?
What is V2MOM?
How does Salesforce scale alignment?
How is AI affecting startups?
How is AI changing the foundation of startups?
How to write your strategy retrospectively
How do you extract a strategy that is currently working?
Your how-to-win document
How do you document your strategy effectively?
Removing the heroes
What is the problem with having staff members that know everything?
How to scale work with definition of done
How do you maximise your team leverage (with AI too)?
Strategy Communication
How do you know if your team gets your strategy?
What are your strategic opposites?
How to know if your choices are really choices
How to improve your UX
What do your users expect?
Network effects
How much value does one new user add?
What Jurassic Park teaches you about trusting your instincts
When do you know to trust your instincts?
Internal staff heroes
When is praising staff a bad idea?
Exploration vs exploitation
Do you set time aside to plan for tomorrow?
What is user side synergy?
How do your clients/customers remember you?
How to find your niche
One simple question that will help you find your niche
How to scale culture
How do you scale culture as you grow?
Whose problems are you solving?
Are you solving problems for your customers, or problems of your own?
The danger of listening to customers
When you should listen to your customers?
Customer Development: prototyping with words
How to save time removing bad ideas quickly and cheaply
The One Thing Book - Strategic Lens
A quick look at the book "The One Thing"
What is the peak-end rule?
How do your clients/customers remember you?
Save energy by thinking in Modes
How much energy can you save batching work?
Comfort zone trap
How are you prioritising work?
The 5 how's of strategy
How to get strategic clarity with the 5 hows
What is the s-curve?
Where are you on the curve?
Referrals and viral growth
How do you track growth marketing?
When is a business idea too late?
When is a business idea too late to market?
How AI affects integration forces
How is AI unlocking new innovation opportunities?
Integration vs specialist forces
Where can you add value in the users value chain?
How to deal with unfinished projects
How much attention are open loops taking in your day?
Product market drift
How to you keep current with changing needs?
What is attention residue?
How much of your attention is being drained by old work?
Time Boxing vs Time Blocking
What is the difference between Time Boxing ands Time Blocking?
One common mistake technical leaders make
Operational excellence is not strategy
What is Comprehension debt?
How do you keep track of what is not understood in your business?
A new generation of homers
Will reduced costs of digital creation cause a generation of Homers?
Judgement at scale
How do you make continuous decisions at scale?
Does your strategy pass the 5 why's?
Does your North Star and Most Important Goal pass the 5 why's?
Three types of logic
Have you used all three types of logic?
How to use AI to increase your innovation budget
How to set path to future success
Are you playing to win?
Are you planning to become the number one, or follow your competitors?
What is your cost of delay?
How do you determine the cost of in-action?
Are you effective or efficient?
How do you manage making effective and efficient decisions?
When should you act quickly?
When is it best to make a quick decision and when is it best to analyse more deeply?
How to unlock a secret hour each day
How can you find 60 hidden minutes per day?
How to make more impact with RICE
How do you prioritise tasks strategically?
How the Eisenhower Matrix is slowing you down
How using the Eisenhower Matrix is not helping you get work done.
1 simple step to unlock progress
How do you start to make progress on your ideas when you feel stuck?
3 steps to remove silos in your company
It is easy to underestimate how quickly silos appear in businesses of all sizes, but how do you prevent them?
How to use strategy to leverage your team
How can you use strategy to accelerate your team?
One thing no one is talking about with AI
How else can AI drive value other than just productivity?
2 things AI cannot do in product development
What can AI not help you with in product development?
Will ROWE culture rise with AI?
When we treat AI in a ROWE environment, will we roll that out to the whole organisation?
Saying no
A lot of business articles and books teach the importance of saying no - but what do you say no to?
Will AI commodity intelligence change business?
Will endless cheap intelligence change business?
Will AI force us to think more?
When AI replaces the easy low order work, will we end up thinking more?
Why copying strategy is a bad idea
A look at the hidden context behind strategy creation.
The AI efficiency trap
New tooling allows us to be much more efficient - but this is not strategy.
Why strategy is more important than ever
In a world where you can have everything at once - strategy is more important than ever.
Outcome driven engineering
New tools are changing the way we work, but the outcomes are still the same.
Using AI to leverage tasks
We all have the same number of hours in a week. Learn how to get more out with the same effort.
What is a $1 task?
A look at how to identify which tasks are eating up your time and not making any strategic progress.
Can AI be used for strategy?
A look at how the strengths and weaknesses of how AI can be used to help the research phase of strategic execution.