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Sparring Partner
Someone to challenge and refine ideas until we find a concise, elegant, and actionable formulation.
Speaker
Someone to inspire by bringing ideas from different domains together to uncover new insights.
Prototyper
Sometimes, you need an artifact, a first working example before you see how to move ahead with an idea.
If so, let's talk 
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Background
I have experienced opposite ends of several spectrums:- from CIO of a publicly traded company to one-man show
- from business application coder to management consultant
- from forklift driver to warehouse designer
- from academic to practioner
- from citizen to (local) politician
Skills
- Catalyze: reduce the energy needed to go from idea to action (by providing the right inspiration and tools)
- Code: express ideas in concise ways so that machines understand them
- Craft: forge and apply the right tools and messages to make something happen
- Ignite: don't wait for a burning platform to bring about change, set the fire; leap when you're 85% ready
- Macrophage ("big eater"): savor good ideas (and good food), clean up the environment to allow for effective future action
- Message: express ideas in concise ways so that humans understand them
- Pioneer: show that something new can be done, or something existing can be done in a new, more elegant way, pave the way, replant the garden
- Synthesize: take knowledge and ideas from different domains and combine them in novel and elegant ways
Talks and key notes
- Subtraction: the power of doing less
- Organizations need an immune system
- Casting out Legion - dealing with the demons of the digital age
- The nature of money
- Down with complexity!
- Why beauty matters in IT
- Bitcoin and Blockchain: from virtual money to the “world computer"
- Risk management in a world full of (not always pleasant) surprises
- Organizations of the future: beyond the top-down hierarchy
- ... and others tailored to your needs and context
Research and works in progress
- 📃 Exposing and Countering the Logic of Envy in preparation for Novitate Conference 2023
- Evolving decision strategies for dynamic environments: A genetic programming approach (22nd Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, WITS 2012; with P.E.Johnson, G.Adomavicius, P.J.O'Connor, J.A. Sperl-Hillen, W. Rush, M. Elidrisia, S. Bandyopadhyay)
- Understanding the Performance of Decision Strategies in Dynamic Environments (PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota)
- A Machine Learning Approach to Improving Dynamic Decision Making (Information Systems Research, with G. Adomavicius, P.E. Johnson, M. Elidrisi, W.A.Rush, J.A. Sperl-Hillen, P.J. O'Connor)
- Applying the UNIX philosophy to business (designing elegant, composable, and life-serving processes and systems)
- Biomimicry: applying concepts from nature (specifically immunology and biochemistry) to systems and organizations
Recent thoughts and conversations
- Newsbreak: On AI, Envy, and the Difference between Thriving and Struggling Businesses
- INSC Digital Magazine: On Unique Human Value, Custom Software, and Simplicity
- USA Wire: Why Strategy Often Fails — and How Companies Can Fix It
- Digital Journal: The Consultant Helping Business To Do Less — So They Can Achieve More
- "People, Patterns & Probabilities: Tech, Money & Meaning" on Emil Drud's Creative Odyssey podcast
- Discussing Alignment of People, Process, and Technology with Trusted Magazine
- Interview with Mr. Biz® Ken Wentworth
- Interview with Authority Magazine
- Interview with Ideamensch
- Feature in Interface Magazine
- Discussing Agile with Trusted Magazine
- Not Too Cool For School Podcast (Spotify | Apple | Amazon | Buzzsprout)
- Speaking at Business Agility Day
- Normconf Lightning Talk: A Case for Beauty in IT (and check out Normconf!)
