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Time to Market
What is the Time to Market for a startup venture? Time to Market (TTM) is the time it takes to go from an idea to a finished product. Sometimes you will come across the term Speed to Market (STM). In the context of startups, TTM is a...
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Theory E and Theory O
What is Theory E? What is Theory O? Theory E is change based on economic value. Theory O is change based on organizational capability. Both are valid models; each theory of change achieves some of management's goals, either explicitly or...
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Survivorship Bias
What is Survivorship Bias? Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not. This can lead to incorrect conclusions because of...
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Stakeholder Management
What is Stakeholder Management? Stakeholder management is a critical component in the successful delivery of any project, programme or activity. A stakeholder is any individual, group or organization that can affect, be affected by, or...
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Stacey Matrix
What is the Stacey Matrix? It is designed to help understand the factors that contribute to complexity and choose the best management actions to address different degrees of complexity.
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Six Hats Approach
What is the Six Hats Appraoch? "Six Thinking Hats" is a way of investigating an issue from a variety of perspectives, but in a clear, conflict-free way. It can be used by individuals or groups to move outside habitual ways of thinking,...
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Quality Management
What is Quality Management? Quality management ensures that an organization, product or service consistently functions well. It has four main components: quality planning, quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement....
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Satisficing
What is Satisficing? Satisficing is a decision-making strategy or cognitive heuristic that entails searching through the available alternatives until an acceptability threshold is met.
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Ratselvermehrung
What is Ratselvermehrung? Rätselvermehrung is an alternative creativity tool based on combining problems of different sorts to find solutions in an indirect way.
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Quality Circles - Process Management
What are Quality Circles in Process Management? A quality circle is a group of employees who work in the same position or department and meet to discuss, analyze and find solutions for problems related to improving work performance.
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Process Management - Explained
What is Process Management? Business process management is the discipline in which people use various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize, and automate business processes. Any combination of methods used to...
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Path Dependence
What is Path Dependence? Path dependency is a phenomenon whereby history matters; what has occurred in the past persists because of resistance to change.
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Market Orientation
What is Market Orientation? Market orientation perspectives include the decision-making perspective, market intelligence perspective, culturally based behavioural perspective, strategic perspective and customer orientation perspective.
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Management Decision Making Models
What are common Management Decision Making Models? The Rational Model, The Intuitive Model,The Recognition Primed Model, Vroom-Yetton Decision-Making Model, and. Bounded rationality model.
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Leader Decision Making
What is Leader Decision Making? How does leader decision making fit into behavioral leadership study?
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Laissez Faire - Management Theory
What is Laissez Faire approach to management? The term Laissez-faire is of French origin and translates to “letting people do as they choose.” This leadership style is the complete opposite of micromanaging. Laissez-faire leaders allow...
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What Can You Write Before an Diminished 7th Chord - Music Composition
Which are the most common approach chords? Learn how to form a diminished 7th chord, how to key reference a diminished 7th, and how to locate inversions of diminished 7ths. This music composition lesson then explores the most commonly...
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Making Better Decisions
Political scientist Josiah Ober describes how we might concretely improve our ability to make political decisions within a democratic framework, highlighting so-called deliberative and epistemic approaches to decision-making.
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Bernardinelli–Bernstein Comet | Oort Cloud Comet
Learn about Bernardinelli–Bernstein Comet with the Bernardinelli–Bernstein Comet Planet Song by the KLT
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This Brain-Inspired AI Can Teach A Car To Drive With 19 Neurons | C. elegans + Neural Control Policy
Turns out we might have a lot to learn from worm brains when it comes to autonomous driving. Who knew?
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These Language Models Talk to Each Other! | Socratic Models
These Language Models Talk to Each Other! | Socratic Models
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Machine Learning using Raspberry Pi: AlphaGo Edition
Need something to do while staying at home? Today, we're running a machine learning model on a Raspberry Pi 4 to show that you don't need huge computational resources to do machine learning projects.
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OpenAI's AI Learned to Play Minecraft from YouTube Videos
OpenAI's AI Learned to Play Minecraft from YouTube Videos
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Non-barking Dogs
University of Oxford historian John Elliott describes how one intriguing avenue of historical scholarship lies in trying to develop an understanding for why some historical events didn’t happen.