Category: Systems
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Why few organizations adopt systems thinking – by @SamiHonkonen
I like this article! I am very much a systems thinker, and visual thinker (I think those are intertwined). The specific reason resonates very strongly with me as I’ve seen this in many organizations, and in our business culture in general. Why few organizations adopt systems thinking – by @SamiHonkonen.
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Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts – IEEE Spectrum
Interesting interview with Michael Jordan (no, not that Michael Jordan) about the the challenges with Big Data. It reminds me of a conversation that I had with a good friend of mine just the other day. We discussed how Big Data is meaningless in the absence of context. Likewise, Michael Jordan’s point touches on the…
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Firms Boost Their Spending on Startups – WSJ
Good bit on how Firms are getting into the VC game themselves. Firms Boost Their Spending on Startups – WSJ.
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2014-06B: From Around The Web: 5 Next Steps For Data Visualization | Blog
Not sure this is new news (see article at bottom of this post), but good to see it being articulated. I would say the trends outlined below are already happening. There is, however still a gap between the three dimensions of data visualization production: The tools with many templates (Excel/Tableau) are not very creative, The…
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2014-05: Atomic Design
This is a throw back from a few years ago, but read a news clipping this morning that reminded me of, so I wanted to get it out there. When I was in my previous role, I used to use the concept of “products and by-products” for the work that we did. The product is…