Continuous Improvement sounds simple, even obvious. And yet there's a profound secret at its heart that doesn't seem to get talked about.| Commoncog
'Knowledge' here is defined as 'theories or models that help you predict better'. How an idea from W. Edwards Deming may well be a working philosophy of business.| Commoncog
The answer, like most things from Statistical Process Control, is more surprising and more obvious than you might think.| Commoncog
What it's like being data driven in the restaurant business ... and what it tells us about becoming data driven in business more broadly.| Commoncog
The birth of Sony, and the possibility that private corporations and private individuals can change broader business ecosystems.| Commoncog
People often say things like "become data driven" without explaining what that means or how to do it. This is everything you need to know to actually become data driven, from scratch, using the same first principles that Amazon, Koch, and Toyota used back in their day.| Commoncog
Everything that we covered in 2023, and what to expect now that Commoncog has a new direction.| Commoncog
Cedric talks to Colin Bryar, early Amazon executive and former shadow to Jeff Bezos, on one of Amazon's secret operational weapons: the Weekly Business Review.| Commoncog
What does it mean to be data driven in business? Most people think being data driven means looking at charts on a daily basis. Or they attempt to use data in their orgs, and then fall into one of the many traps that come with the territory. How do you| Commoncog
Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it. We look at how organisations actually prevent Goodhart's Law, and illustrate this with Amazon's Weekly Business Review as an example.| Commoncog