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The CDO should be the Switzerland between Business and IT

The CDO should be the Switzerland between Business and IT

Martin Treder – The Chief Data Officer Manaegment Handbook

A solid run through the basic that manages to touch on a surprisingly high number of recognizable concrete examples.

AI will not take our jobs, but creep into our workflows and contribute as intern, coach, and idiot savant

AI will not take our jobs, but creep into our workflows and contribute as intern, coach, and idiot savant

Ethan Mollick – Cointelligence

Not wrong, but misses true depth and is overly-reliant on the author’s conversations with Chat-GPT.

Classical strategy consulting ploys translate seamlessly to the language of IT architecture

Classical strategy consulting ploys translate seamlessly to the language of IT architecture

Eben Hewitt – Technology Strategy Patterns

The ‘cookbook’ approach does a lot to demystify Strategy and Architecture, while the digressions into philosophy make the relatively basic content also palatable for the advanced reader.

If the talent density in your organization is high enough and your corporate culture strong enough, you could give extreme freedom to your people to increase te level of innovation

If the talent density in your organization is high enough and your corporate culture strong enough, you could give extreme freedom to your people to increase te level of innovation

Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer – No Rules Rules

Pretty strong boundary conditions need to be fulfilled in order for this scheme to work; including broad acceptance of a high level of interpersonal ruthlessness.

Silicon valley types and tech icons all recommend using OKRs for business steering, but each means something slightly different

Silicon valley types and tech icons all recommend using OKRs for business steering, but each means something slightly different

John Doerr – Measure what matters

If you look past the author’s boundless Andy Grove adoration, there are some useful lessons to be learnt.

Statistical thinking leads to better decisions, but unfortunately most people are bad at that

Statistical thinking leads to better decisions, but unfortunately most people are bad at that

Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass Sunstein – Noise

Overly simplified presentation of basic statistics that cuts some corners, as superbly pointed out by Andrew Gelman.

For more impact: write your own rules, commit to redistributing power, and fight for fairness

For more impact: write your own rules, commit to redistributing power, and fight for fairness

Sam Conniff Allende – Be more Pirate

Entertaining and motivating.

Ben Horowitz – The hard thing about hard things

Ben Horowitz – The hard thing about hard things

In the end no-one but the founder-CEO really cares how difficult it is to do the right thing for your start-up.

Comfortingly desillusional perspective on entrepreneurship, with reassuring insights like: “No one cares.”

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