A useful operating principle to sidestep the biggest misconception around becoming data driven in business.| Commoncog
What expertise in Capital looks like in the context of business.| 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
A comprehensive summary of W. Edwards Deming's ideas, whose System of Profound Knowledge is one of the most powerful things you'll find on the Operations side of the business expertise triad. Read this, so you don't have to read multiple books to apply his ideas.| 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
A series on the expertise of business.| Commoncog
A series about tacit knowledge, which is knowledge that cannot be captured through words alone. We explore what this means for expertise, and why it is important if you are serious at self improvement.| 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
Most companies skimp on process improvement. But the surprising thing is that they do so not because they're bad or lazy — but because there are system dynamics that prevent them from doing so. We take a look at what those are.| Commoncog
Every experimentation and iteration loop looks the same, but the vast majority of folk in business don't seem to have the discipline to execute till the end. Why this is, and why it's hard.| Commoncog