Ok. Maddie is a bit unusual in the world of CEOs but she still needs to be ready for the politics of her Board. They’re not going to agree with her just because she has a clever tech idea and good presentation. You have to be ready. You have to think.
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Ok. Maddie is a bit unusual in the world of CEOs but she still needs to be ready for the politics of her Board. They’re not going to agree with her just because she has a clever tech idea and good presentation. You have to be ready. You have to think.
Vinny the CTO: Geoffrey Grier
Penelope the Principal: Debbon Ayer
Maddie the Entrepreneur: Zoe Anastassiou
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We think about the future in terms of the past. Star Wars, after all, takes place a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. When we think about cyberdefense, we find that we are still think in terms of the static defense of physical infrastructure. We try to defend mobile data with references to earth and stone works from the 8th century.
Our Intern, Anna, attempts to explain the basic model of cyber
defense as a metaphor of castle defense. Her description, though completely accurate in argument, has a few errors of fact, errors which should make us rethink how we use metaphor to describe cyberspace.
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We think about the future in terms of the past. Star Wars, after all, takes place a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. When we think about cyberdefense, we find that we are still think in terms of the static defense of physical infrastructure. We try to defend mobile data with references to earth and stone works from the 8th century.
Our Intern, Anna, attempts to explain the basic model of cyber
defense as a metaphor of castle defense. Her description, though completely accurate in argument, has a few errors of fact, errors which should make us rethink how we use metaphor to describe cyberspace.
Anna The Intern: Sarah Corbyn Woolf
Evelyn the Business Manager: Margaux Amie
Sullivan from Policy: Josh LaForce
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Big Data. It gives you facts. It tells you what is really happening. It has Volume, Varity, Velocity, Veracity and, of course, Vexation of Spirit. Vexation can come with the data, no matter how much you have of it, tells you more about the structure that gathered it than the truth of any matter. When you have that, you have a problem called Simpson’s Paradox – the bane of Big Data.
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Big Data. It gives you facts. It tells you what is really happening. It has Volume, Varity, Velocity, Veracity and, of course, Vexation of Spirit. Vexation can come with the data, no matter how much you have of it, tells you more about the structure that gathered it than the truth of any matter. When you have that, you have a problem called Simpson’s Paradox – the bane of Big Data.
Evelyn the Business Manager: Margaux Amie
Rohit from IT: Noah Masur
Anna The Intern: Sarah Corbyn Woolf
Chuck of Acme Products: Ron Bianchi
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Three questions. What is Enterprise Architecture? Does it have anything to do with the Starship Enterprise? And why should we care? Rohit from IT joins the podcast in this episode to explore this idea on one of our “We Read It So You Don’t Have To” episodes.
Three questions. What is Enterprise Architecture? Does it have anything to do with the Starship Enterprise? And why should we care? Rohit from IT joins the podcast in this episode to explore this idea on one of our “We Read It So You Don’t Have To” episodes.
Rohit from IT: Noah Masur
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This episode looks as look at an Indian book on Innovation and asks “How is it really different from an American book?” Jameela, our Bangalore Office Manager, as always, has ideas. Lots of ideas.
This episode looks as look at an Indian book on Innovation and asks “How is it really different from an American book?” Jameela, our Bangalore Office Manager, as always, has ideas. Lots of ideas.
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Agility begins at home. Or more to the point, it begins with the board. Too often, companies are organized conventionally and then the CEO tries to make the Agile by applying various tricks and procedures. As Vinny argues in today’s episode, you really need to start at the top, think of the company as a whole, and start by understanding the claims and obligations of all parties.
It is a little crazy, we do admit, to build a company for an 8-year-old Entrepreneur. But it is not crazy to ask how your CEO will grow into the leadership demands of the organization.
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Agility begins at home. Or more to the point, it begins with the board. Too often, companies are organized conventionally and then the CEO tries to make the Agile by applying various tricks and procedures. As Vinny argues in today’s episode, you really need to start at the top, think of the company as a whole, and start by understanding the claims and obligations of all parties.
It is a little crazy, we do admit, to build a company for an 8-year-old Entrepreneur. But it is not crazy to ask how your CEO will grow into the leadership demands of the organization.
Evelyn-the-Business-Manager: Margaux Amie
Sully-from-Poliy & PR: Josh LaForce
Vinny-the-CTO: Geoffrey Grier
Penelope-the-Principal: Debbon Ayer
Maddie-the-8-year-old-Entrepreneur: Zoe Anastassiou
Delores Payne-Perkins: Margaux Amie
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Do you see all the talent that you have in your organization?
The movie Hidden Figures brings some welcome attention to the forgotten human computers who did the calculations for the manned space program. However, as much as we might like to think that the story of Katherine Goble Johnson and NASA’s West Area Computers was an isolated anomaly, we quickly discover that it is not.
All organizations have hidden, unappreciated workers, as the book When Computers Were Human shows.
Do you see all the talent that you have in your organization?
The movie Hidden Figures brings some welcome attention to the forgotten human computers who did the calculations for the manned space program. However, as much as we might like to think that the story of Katherine Goble Johnson and NASA’s West Area Computers was an isolated anomaly, we quickly discover that it is not.
All organizations have hidden, unappreciated workers, as the book When Computers Were Human shows.
David Alan Grier
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Not up on the current literature of technology and organization?
Don’t worry.
We read it so you don’t have to.
Well, maybe we don’t.
But we always have plenty to say.
This week, we look at David Weil’s Fissured Workplace, a book about what is happening to the workplace in the age of Uber, Taskrabbit and Mechanical Turk.
Not up on the current literature of technology and organization?
Don’t worry.
We read it so you don’t have to.
Well, maybe we don’t.
But we always have plenty to say.
This week, we look at David Weil’s Fissured Workplace, a book about what is happening to the workplace in the age of Uber, Taskrabbit and Mechanical Turk.
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What kinds of qualities do you want on your team? We start discussing skills and the qualities of our personnel with guest George Dyson while our intern and our IT guy go in search of John Von Neumann’s early computer. Dyson identifies some useful lessons from Julian Bigelow, who served as the engineer on von Neumann’s computer.
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This episode deals with personnel lessons learned from an important early computer, the one built by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study. Unlike some of its antecedents, this machine followed a basic pattern that has been replicated in modern processors. That pattern is called the “von Neumann architecture.”
The von Neumann architecture was first described, in an incomplete way, in a paper called “The Draft Report on the EDVAC.” Most scholars accept that this paper was conceived and organized by von Neumann, though it was probably drafted by von Neumann’s assistant and contains contributions, perhaps substantial contributions, from others. Beyond dispute is the claim, as Anna notes, that it was written in Courier Font.
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What kinds of qualities do you want on your team? We start discussing skills and the qualities of our personnel with guest George Dyson while our intern and our IT guy go in search of John Von Neumann’s early computer. Dyson identifies some useful lessons from Julian Bigelow, who served as the engineer on von Neumann’s computer.
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This episode deals with personnel lessons learned from an important early computer, the one built by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study. Unlike some of its antecedents, this machine followed a basic pattern that has been replicated in modern processors. That pattern is called the “von Neumann architecture.”
The von Neumann architecture was first described, in an incomplete way, in a paper called “The Draft Report on the EDVAC.” Most scholars accept that this paper was conceived and organized by von Neumann, though it was probably drafted by von Neumann’s assistant and contains contributions, perhaps substantial contributions, from others. Beyond dispute is the claim, as Anna notes, that it was written in Courier Font.
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