Categoría: Business
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Innovation compounds
How do you get to effective innovation at an organization or company? Well, by innovating of course. Hidden in that cheeky answer is a real insight that’s easy to overlook: innovation isn’t a one-time event. It’s a practice. A habit. Something you should be doing regularly. Kind of like going…
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Exergy & Tarpit Ideas
Most have seen bright-eyed founders passionately pitching their latest idea—an idea that seems reasonable, gains some initial traction, and yet, somehow, never quite transforms into a sustainable business. The idea shows promise and a brilliant team worked hard on it, so why didn’t it work out? Sometimes this can be…
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Exception Handling in Organizations
While continuously refining roles and information flows in an organization, covering the regular and non-erroneous situations is usually a handful. Nonetheless, dynamic scenarios and anomalies are a regular thing for most companies and, as a consequence, they end up being handled ad-hoc. Or not handled at all. In programming, when…
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Anti-fragility and organizations
I’ve recently been digging through systems theory, and coincidentally came across the wonderful concept of anti-fragility. Originally proposed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb it refers to how certain systems not only withstand disruptions but actually thrive and grow stronger as a result of them. While mathematical in its foundation, it’s intuitive…
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Is AI the new offshoring in software?
A lot of people in the industry is quite nervous about the future prospects of these tools and their jobs opportunities. And while it is futile to predict the future, I think it is important to draw from history as possible to have additional information on what to face.
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Octobot has been acquired
I’m very happy to announce that Octobot has been acquired by Sparq, an Atlanta-based company. I’m certain that this is the right step to continue moving forward, and that we have found in Sparq the right company to do this.
Juan Saavedra 