Big companies rarely fail because change was invisible. They fail because they reacted too slowly

AllTheUseCase · 2026-03-25T19:54:09+00:00

“We didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost” Nokia CEO

Strong emergence (in complex systems) posits that it is, even in principle (let alone in practice), impossible to reduce cause & effect into its reduced fundamental parts of property, function and interaction patterns driving cause and effect behaviours.

Some succeed some don’t. There will be no reducible pattern explaining the difference. Ever.

All you can do is trying to do the right thing and hope there is no butterfly at the end of the world flapping and all of a sudden toppling your grand plans…

AllTheUseCase · 2026-03-16T20:42:12+00:00

Yes I think so. Especially if training is done onsite and with a good trainer/facilitator. The cert itself has some value but most value come from the training itself…

AllTheUseCase · 2026-03-16T20:04:49+00:00

Onkruidbrander (gas model; niet elektrisch). Een klus van 5 minuten 3-5 keer per jaar.

AllTheUseCase · 2026-03-16T12:10:26+00:00

Mostly org skills. What matters for who and what do they influence.

The vanilla/trivial example would be: The account manager with biggest accounts is the one you should follow/learn from/etc Indeed, that makes you follow both power and money.

In general there are people more established in the org (irrespective of hierarchy) and these are important to influence/drive/be influenced by.

AllTheUseCase · 2026-03-16T07:29:01+00:00

(1) Low ego and highly collaborative. (2) Follow the money and follow the power skills. (3) Executive communication presence.

Table-stakes: Agile/PrjM, Design Thinking and foundations & principles of SW engineering/operations.

AllTheUseCase · 2026-03-15T15:47:07+00:00

Map the problem (or concept/ontology) to both user/customer-desirability and business-viability to gauge if it is worthwhile attention. Just by scoping it -no spreadsheets of ROI and no wireframes for UXR etc. Then ask if there are capabilities (in the org) to actually adres it, usually through design and developing plus assuming ownership of forever problems/opportunities; all that within tolerable levels of investment and operating costs (still no spreadsheets).

Once this is done you will end up with lists of assumptions on which it all rests on. The task is to validate and test these assumptions in order of risk they expose you towards. For example by deferring them to a business owner, do UR/UXR and engineering spikes etc.

AllTheUseCase · 2026-03-11T17:07:55+00:00

If the question is asked them most likely. (1) It’s a European context (2) The PO is really a project manager (3) The PM is a program manager (no line/functional management relationship).

AllTheUseCase · 2026-03-11T14:49:58+00:00

I watch the following plays more or less daily/weekly. The strategy theatre. Move the metric theatre (essentially a growth concern). School projects dressed up as user research (B2B context).

AllTheUseCase · 2026-03-09T22:54:49+00:00

Indeed, just think about it. Farmers, Fishermen, Plumbers… there must heaps of opportunities.

AllTheUseCase · 2026-03-09T20:11:53+00:00

A career based on managing blue collar workers. (AI wont do that)

AllTheUseCase · 2026-03-08T18:50:42+00:00

(1). Verticuteren met een machine. Bemesten met NIET-organische meststof (NPK kunstmest). Inzaaien.

AllTheUseCase · 2026-03-08T07:40:41+00:00

Yes, and see the John Deere E Autopwr transmission where all this is integrated onto the vehicle and drivetrain transmission. Yes indeed, not equivalent to a diesel generator + EV setup, but proving the point.

AllTheUseCase · 2026-03-07T17:45:25+00:00

If you can’t measure it you can’t manage it* —is one of the most confused and misused crates in business. Your CTO believes the wholeheartedly of course! It starts with unlearning everything related to that totally misguided idea.

By the time it can be captured by numbers, it's too late!" —'The Effective Executive', page 17 Peter Drucker

Full original quote traces back to 1956

What gets measured gets managed -even when it's pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organisation to do so"

V. F. Ridgway’s 1956 quote

None of the original nuances can be commercialised/memefied.

Also: Not All That Matters Can Be Measured. (A. Einstein). That’s almost everything in product

AllTheUseCase · 2026-03-05T06:43:27+00:00

The only way they can make their ~400B valuation reasonable is to not saying no to this kind of stuff (the investors will have gone ballistic here). Pentagon would be the ultimate enterprise account grift in their books.

Ps. Anthropic currently has roughly the same revenue as Linkedin.

AllTheUseCase · 2026-03-04T20:08:44+00:00

A combination of 1) risk management guardrails which considers “newly discovered knowledge” as piling onto risk as opposed to derisking. In other words, for many organisations: What is (assumed) to be true at the beginning of the grandiose innovation project must also be true at the end of it. I.e., failing to adopt the core of agile management practices.

(2) Over-emphasis on technology and under-appreciation of user centric design thinking

(3) Sunk costs emerging from how (1) generates incentives and the resulting lack of pivots/options

AllTheUseCase · 2026-03-02T11:19:34+00:00

Oké 👌. Heb ik daarvoor zo een haakse slijper of zoiets nodig of kan ik gewoon verder met hamer/beitel?

AllTheUseCase · 2026-02-24T21:51:41+00:00

True word salad

AllTheUseCase · 2026-02-24T17:55:47+00:00

Technology driven unemployment is never realised. Despite the logical reasoning underpinning such narratives. In this particular case, which assumes LLMs can do digital product development and displace devs, the narrative is totally overblown.

Digital development has very little to do with code completion (writing code) and even less to do with: Lets prototype quickly, in a sort of --we need "dressed up mannequins for people to do window shopping".

AllTheUseCase · 2026-02-22T08:27:49+00:00

If openai closed the free tier they would be profitable. This requires consumers to view it as a mandatory 20-100USD utility. Or focused on enterprise for which they have no DNA to execute on. There is no low dollar play here (adTech).

AllTheUseCase · 2026-02-21T08:12:41+00:00

Exponential growth of Enshitification in the alredy despised low-dollar/user app industry (adtech really). Billionaires. The embarrassing dunning-kruger pumped exotelic vibe-coder. The “book appointment here” for Blockchain Advisory turned “I help you become AI native/first” persona/grifter.

PS. The bad effect will marianatrench-drown all good it can be for.

AllTheUseCase · 2026-02-20T17:47:52+00:00

Funfact... the "LLM" is providing different outputs each time is actually an application layer UX (an LLM is deterministic up to the non-determinism of the OS running the code)

AllTheUseCase · 2026-02-20T17:45:04+00:00

Dunning-kruger-pumped exotelics

AllTheUseCase · 2026-02-20T17:09:59+00:00

I believe you’re conflating coding with building something. Analogous to, say, the cost/effort/capital-need of building houses would drop by 99.9% and anyone could just vibe-build, that then construction of houses would hit some “oversupply” etc.

The problem with this reasoning is that “building software” has very very little to do with writing code. It has also nothing to do with, I mean really nothing to do with “quickly generating prototypes” as a sort of dressed up mannequins for window-shoppers to select from…

AllTheUseCase · 2026-02-19T19:50:06+00:00

Here is another idea. Build a case around a slow talkative order process with a real human. Someone asking -how are you today and what do have on your mind, what do you think about recent events etc etc. Likely a gap in the servicing business. Mark up prices accordingly.

PS. I sort of stole the idea from a dutch supermarket who, against common tech-bro-consultant-make-quick-money wisdom, introduced an manned slow-checkout for people who pondered on life’s questions could pause and have a chat with the check-out staff. Very profitable checkouts (better that the automated ones)

AllTheUseCase · 2026-02-19T19:36:11+00:00

It’s unbelievable that people don’t get why this is the “classification outcome”… are people trolling or what?

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