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Agility is one of the great buzzwords of the day so I paused for thought when I saw this tweet from @flowchainsensei (aka Bob Marshall) ”What is *Business Agility*? It’s ability to respond to changes in your business environment: markets, competitors, regulators, tech, etc.” Picture credit: chris5aw Well that doesn’t sound like agility to me. Bob’s definition Much effort has been put into getting machines to pass the so-called Turing Test. But, conversely, how does a machine know it’s talking to a human? Picture credit: Loz Flowers Turing Test corollary: a human knowingly talking to a [telephone answering] machine often loses coherence and language skills, ergo machine knows Picture credit: annachock Cyberspace is a pretty strange environment for building communities but why do some online community builders make it so hard for themselves, and prospective community members, by making such a hash of publicity and access control? The web makes it very easy for prying eyes to happen upon supposedly private gatherings, while public attractions  Picture credit: Sarabbit Here are a couple of thought-provoking questions:
Reflecting on your answers might help to avoid falling into the traps of the three envelope gag (see below) which painfully describes the all too common difficulty of transmitting hard-won management wisdom and insight.
 picture credit: xiaming Many organizations suffer from undiagnosed premature evaluation. Decisions are made without adequate information, leading to unexpected costs and disappointment. We could mitigate the risk of premature evaluation by adding a new sign-off requirement to the business case for all new initiatives: a qualifying level of confidence in the quality of information supporting the proposal. |
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