Learning #6 - From Predictable Experiments to Finding the Unobvious: A Journey in Complexity
Learning of the day: In the last weeks, I started evaluating my experiments; the problem was that for some reason we always came up with the same idea, the same problems and obviously the same solutions. Finally after reading about complexity (work from Dave Snowden) I realized that my missing concept was " detecting weak signals " or how I like to call it " things that are not obvious " before starting any experiment. Let me explain. Usually my experiments would include discovery sessions and workshops with many people to try to detect opportunities and experiments but the results were always the same old, same old. During these workshops we usually ask the same questions: What went wrong, what can we improve, etc. People will then write the first ideas that come to their mind , we might cluster topics and vote. All of this gave usually the same topics and same solutions. What I was missing was the knowledge that when something is in the complex domain there ...