Sunday, April 25, 2021

Fifth conference participants, 1927. Institute International de Physique Solvay in Leopold Park.


A. Piccard, E. Henriot, P. Ehrenfest, E. Herzen, Th. de Donder, E. Schrödinger, J. E. Verschaffelt, W. Pauli, W. Heisenberg, R. H. Fowler, L. Brillouin;
P. Debye, M. Knudsen, W.L. Bragg, H. A. Kramers, P. A. M. Dirac, A. H. Compton, L. de Broglie, M. Born, N. Bohr;
I. Langmuir, M. Planck, M. Curie, H.A . Lorentz, A. Einstein, P. Langevin, Ch.-E. Guye, C. T. R. Wilson, O. W. Richardson


 

Sunday, April 11, 2021

How all the patterns fit and flow together

 


Snippet of a Sankey showing principles, practices, and tools

 


Core/Innovation Wave

 


Your Futures Funnel looks just like this before you add your descriptions

 


Kinds of relations, on a spectrum of interestingness

 


Hierarchy of data, insights, and hypotheses

 


The triumvirate dominating forces of strategy, culture, and execution

 


Any business aims to do one or many of these things

  • Grow shareholder value
  • Grow earnings per share
  • Increase revenue
  • Manage costs
  • Diversify or create new revenue streams
  • Cross-sell more products
  • Increase market share
  • Increase share of wallet
  • Increase yield
  • Improve customer retention
  • Reduce product error/defect rates
  • Improve safety
  • Improve time to market/speed of operations
  • Grow through acquisition