Getting ready for CES. A frame from the CES B-roll. Used by permission. The Consumer Technology Association™ (CTA). CES 2019 starts tomorrow morning (Wednesday, January 8 2019). We missed the show last year, but will be back to wandering the expansive aisles of technology again this year. Every article you read about CES will reflect the biased slice the right wants … [Read more...] about CES 2019: Serious Insights Watch List
Scenario Planning
Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Changing the Rules of Magic
Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Changing the Rules of Magic The deepest level of scenario planning requires a release of certainty. Not only is "lock-in a myth" (see Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Myth of Lock-in) at the grand scale, but the best planners revoke the very idea of certainty. Any idea can be disrupted, any concept displaced, any … [Read more...] about Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Changing the Rules of Magic
Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Resurrection and Consequences
Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Resurrection and Consequences Like the character Buffy, the show proved resilient in the face of change. Following cancelation, Team Buffy announced that Buffy the Vampire Slayer would return to the air for at least one more season on the now-defunct UPN network. The network's advertising campaign clearly hinted at Sarah Michelle … [Read more...] about Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Resurrection and Consequences
Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Glorificus and Black Swans
Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Glorificus and Black Swans Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Black Swans: Season Five introduced a major existential threat to Sunnyvale in the form of the goddess Glorificus, better known as Glory. Glory might be better categorized a Black Swan than a predictable uncertainty. Although the team had encountered gods before, such as Olaf the … [Read more...] about Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Glorificus and Black Swans
Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Myth of Lock-in
Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Myth of Lock-in James Ogilvy, writing in Strategy + Business, states, “The old production economy was predictable because it operated in the realm of necessity; it produced goods and services people needed, and those were relatively stable. The new economy plays in the realm of freedom; it produces goods and services for a … [Read more...] about Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Myth of Lock-in