AI governance and AI assurance are sometimes conflated in conversations but they are not the same thing. In simple terms, In more details, the AI Governance Framework for an organisation is the strategic blueprint that defines the organisation’s overarching approach to developing, deploying, and managing AI systems. Its purpose is to define the roles, responsibilities, … More AI Governance vs AI Assurance
I read a couple of really good books on China’s economic system this year that I can recommend for those who want to know the country better (from a distance). The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin taught me about mayor economies, and how China’s centrally planned economy is actually executed … More Book Recommendations on China’s Economic System
Modern competitive analysis started in the 1930’s with the introduction of the Structural-Conduct-Performance (SCP) paradigm (shown in Figure 1 below) that was used to analyse the causal dynamics of Industrial Organisation, the field of study concerned to a large extent with how public policy can limit monopoly power. The SCP paradigm has since evolved into … More Competitive Strategies: Structures and Power
I realised recently that I don’t have a good working definition of what Data Products are or should be. Sure, a quick googling will surface many generic definitions of Data Products from respected sources like Forbes and McKinsey. They are all usually variations of DJ Patil’s definition: “A data product is a product that facilitates … More What Are Data Products?
I was recently asked to speak about my leadership brand, a topic I hadn’t seriously thought about ever, until now. So what is my brand. Here are a few things that I know: So I think my leadership brand is the rational leader who tries to understand how things work, and who seeks to inspire … More My Leadership Brand
A friend sent me Safi Bahcall’s book “Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that Win Wars, Cure Disease, and Transform Industries” a couple of months ago. It’s a fascinating book with many interesting ideas and stories, the most important of which is (arguably) the Innovation Equation, a model that seeks to explain, in a … More Safi Bahcall’s Innovation Equation
Effective decision-making is one of those skills that separates good leaders from the more ordinary leaders. In this post, I summarise a few lessons I learned from good leaders I have had the privilege to work for in the past. These decision-making principles have served me well in the last couple of years as I … More Some Decision-Making Principles
I was recently asked a question on what are the weaknesses of Agile as a framework, and what do we have to do to work around those weaknesses. This is a real if somewhat unusual question, and I can imagine many people who grew up with traditional waterfall project-management methodologies asking that question from time … More Agile, Waterfall, Wagile, and All That
The Networks scientist Albert-Laszlo Barabasi’s latest book The Formula: The Science Behind Why People Succeed or Fail is a cracker. His six laws of success summarise more than a decade of research into the science of success, in particular how the social network in which we live and operate, with its many kinds of relationships … More The Success Formula
Outside Agile, Strategy is probably the most (ab)used word in the modern corporation. I used to have a very basic definition of what a strategy encapsulates, which has four components: an analysis of the current state and how we got to where we are; a statement of the end goal we want to achieve; a … More Strategy: The Art of Creating Power
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