“Complicated”
You don’t talk. It’s “complicated.”
You don’t act. It’s “complicated.”
You don’t know what to do. It’s…
You can see the pattern.
Our consulting at BKL Coffee Logistics has been strained. This owner had this grad idea to start the job and then vanish to a retreat in the Swiss Alps. He wanted to keep out of the way, he said. He wanted to let things take their course.
He may have had a plan.
He may have been improvising.
He may have been frightened.
But today, a brave niece tries to get an honest conversation started. A niece who has a career that is only vaguely related to coffee.
Ninth episode in a series on the ins and outs of tech consulting.
“Complicated”
You don’t talk. It’s “complicated.”
You don’t act. It’s “complicated.”
You don’t know what to do. It’s…
You can see the pattern.
Our consulting at BKL Coffee Logistics has been strained. This owner had this grad idea to start the job and then vanish to a retreat in the Swiss Alps. He wanted to keep out of the way, he said. He wanted to let things take their course.
He may have had a plan.
He may have been improvising.
He may have been frightened.
But today, a brave niece tries to get an honest conversation started. A niece who has a career that is only vaguely related to coffee.
Ninth episode in a series on the ins and outs of tech consulting.
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If they wanted the same thing, then the decision would be easy.
But they don’t.
So it isn’t.
Our drama probes the decision making process in this episode. It uncovers two, maybe three, sharp disagreements. A split in the family. An employee with her own agenda. A consultant trying to do his best and to control the noise of the discussion.
Eighth episode in a series on the ins and outs of tech consulting.
If they wanted the same thing, then the decision would be easy.
But they don’t.
So it isn’t.
Our drama probes the decision making process in this episode. It uncovers two, maybe three, sharp disagreements. A split in the family. An employee with her own agenda. A consultant trying to do his best and to control the noise of the discussion.
Eighth episode in a series on the ins and outs of tech consulting.
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When do they make the mistake?
When do they make a decision that limits – radically limits – options?
Our consulting team is working on a project that is only stumbling forward in the best of light. So what has happened, we ask. Has someone made a mistake?
Has our team done something wrong? Has the client chosen the wrong strategy? Have the managers failed to support the work? Any one of these might constitute the “Fatal Mistake.”
Seventh episode in a series on the ins and outs of tech consulting.
When do they make the mistake?
When do they make a decision that limits – radically limits – options?
Our consulting team is working on a project that is only stumbling forward in the best of light. So what has happened, we ask. Has someone made a mistake?
Has our team done something wrong? Has the client chosen the wrong strategy? Have the managers failed to support the work? Any one of these might constitute the “Fatal Mistake.”
Seventh episode in a series on the ins and outs of tech consulting.
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A young entrepreneur.
A new technology.
All the temptations to make bad decisions.
In the series of on the startup SidePocket, we explored the challenges posed by organizational governance, the authority wielded by investors. Our central character, Vinny, walks away from a company that was unable to make a decision and forms a new company, SidePocket, that will be under his leadership. He guides it to success but in the process has to face choices that have no obvious or unequivocally good answers. He builds a profitable firm but in the process, alienates his closest friend, reluctantly accepts guidance he would prefer to ignore and decides to sell the firm against the wishes of his board.
A series that makes you feel the problems of organization governance and appreciate the issues at stake.
A young entrepreneur.
A new technology.
All the temptations to make bad decisions.
In the series of on the startup SidePocket, we explored the challenges posed by organizational governance, the authority wielded by investors. Our central character, Vinny, walks away from a company that was unable to make a decision and forms a new company, SidePocket, that will be under his leadership. He guides it to success but in the process has to face choices that have no obvious or unequivocally good answers. He builds a profitable firm but in the process, alienates his closest friend, reluctantly accepts guidance he would prefer to ignore and decides to sell the firm against the wishes of his board.
A series that makes you feel the problems of organization governance and appreciate the issues at stake.
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A business owner.
A group of good friends. And an underlying controversy that simply won’t go away.
Florian Bohne, the owner of Bohne Coffee Logistics is holding a party in the Swiss Alps while his friends believe that he should be back with his company.
So we have a fight, a disagreement among friends. Yet it is a disagreement that seems to be about one thing – how Florian is dealing with consultants – while it is really about something deeper, more profound.
Sixth episode in a series on the ins and outs of tech consulting.
A business owner.
A group of good friends. And an underlying controversy that simply won’t go away.
Florian Bohne, the owner of Bohne Coffee Logistics is holding a party in the Swiss Alps while his friends believe that he should be back with his company.
So we have a fight, a disagreement among friends. Yet it is a disagreement that seems to be about one thing – how Florian is dealing with consultants – while it is really about something deeper, more profound.
Sixth episode in a series on the ins and outs of tech consulting.
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Consulting. You’re just giving your opinion. That’s it. Nothing more.
Now, in theory, that opinion is worth something on the open market. It’s worth something for two reasons. First, you have some special training or knowledge. Second, you have data. Data about what is happening.
And there’s the rub. In the modern day and age, we collect ever bit of data we can and call it good. Yet. Yet. Yet. Data can mislead. It can make you believe you know something when you don’t It can confuse when it should inform. Therefore, we need to know something about gathering data scientifically
Fifth episode in a series on the ins and outs of tech consulting.
Consulting. You’re just giving your opinion. That’s it. Nothing more.
Now, in theory, that opinion is worth something on the open market. It’s worth something for two reasons. First, you have some special training or knowledge. Second, you have data. Data about what is happening.
And there’s the rub. In the modern day and age, we collect ever bit of data we can and call it good. Yet. Yet. Yet. Data can mislead. It can make you believe you know something when you don’t It can confuse when it should inform. Therefore, we need to know something about gathering data scientifically
Fifth episode in a series on the ins and outs of tech consulting.
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You think that buying Bitcoin is a grownup thing to do?
Really?
Meet Maddie, the 8 year old entrepreneur who will tell you otherwise.
Maddie is played by Zoe Anastassiou, one of the most flexible members of the cast. Zoe has played executives, teachers, moms. But Zoe Anastassiou is most commonly identified as an eight year old girl who believes – knows – that is the rising light of the next generation of tech business leaders. In this episode, she talks about that character, Maddie-the-Entrepreneur, and what it means to bring her to life.
Cast:
We live in an age that confuses the act of being daring with the act of being impolite.
Furthermore, it excuses threatening behavior by claiming that it was merely impoliteness.
Merely impolite. Another leader, this time from the technology world, has succumbed to these moral confusions to respond to this news, we asked our 8 year old CEO to prepare a commentary.
You think that buying Bitcoin is a grownup thing to do?
Really?
Meet Maddie, the 8 year old entrepreneur who will tell you otherwise.
Maddie is played by Zoe Anastassiou, one of the most flexible members of the cast. Zoe has played executives, teachers, moms. But Zoe Anastassiou is most commonly identified as an eight year old girl who believes – knows – that is the rising light of the next generation of tech business leaders. In this episode, she talks about that character, Maddie-the-Entrepreneur, and what it means to bring her to life.
Cast:
We live in an age that confuses the act of being daring with the act of being impolite.
Furthermore, it excuses threatening behavior by claiming that it was merely impoliteness.
Merely impolite. Another leader, this time from the technology world, has succumbed to these moral confusions to respond to this news, we asked our 8 year old CEO to prepare a commentary.
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It’s a holiday for gratitude in the United States but a holiday for data in the rest of the world.
Ok. They now call it the “Consumer Technology Show” but it’s the same old event. New technology. Lots of talks. Entrepreneurs desperately trying to move their ideas from intellectual conception to money making product.
So what are the bit themes this year? Similar to last year. Machine Learning. Data. Environmentally friendly. (Which may mean the start of the long goodbye to Bitcoin). Autonomous control. Security. Privacy. Security. Privacy. And for one last time, Security and Privacy.
Our podcast team is preparing our new technology for the 2019 show. Our prior entries have generated more heat than light, but that true of most exhibits at the show.
Before we release it to the public, you might want to review one of our earlier products “Rohit’s Autonomous Drone Late Delivery System.” It actually got some interest from investors, though they were investors who did not quite Rohit’s accomplishment in draining Lake Mead and filling it with high quality coffee.
It’s a holiday for gratitude in the United States but a holiday for data in the rest of the world.
Ok. They now call it the “Consumer Technology Show” but it’s the same old event. New technology. Lots of talks. Entrepreneurs desperately trying to move their ideas from intellectual conception to money making product.
So what are the bit themes this year? Similar to last year. Machine Learning. Data. Environmentally friendly. (Which may mean the start of the long goodbye to Bitcoin). Autonomous control. Security. Privacy. Security. Privacy. And for one last time, Security and Privacy.
Our podcast team is preparing our new technology for the 2019 show. Our prior entries have generated more heat than light, but that true of most exhibits at the show.
Before we release it to the public, you might want to review one of our earlier products “Rohit’s Autonomous Drone Late Delivery System.” It actually got some interest from investors, though they were investors who did not quite Rohit’s accomplishment in draining Lake Mead and filling it with high quality coffee.
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It’s a holiday for gratitude in the United States but a holiday for data in the rest of the world.
A Holiday for Data?
Three different groups have organized holidays for data and statistics: one for India, one for the continent of Africa and one for the world at large. You may think that they’re celebrating numbers but if you look closely at any one of them, you find that they are actually celebrating something a little more profound.
Take a break with our cast to celebrate the importance of data.
It’s a holiday for gratitude in the United States but a holiday for data in the rest of the world.
A Holiday for Data?
Three different groups have organized holidays for data and statistics: one for India, one for the continent of Africa and one for the world at large. You may think that they’re celebrating numbers but if you look closely at any one of them, you find that they are actually celebrating something a little more profound.
Take a break with our cast to celebrate the importance of data.
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