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Business Value and ROI
This is Ash Shisr. A fortress built on the most profitable trade route of the ancient world. It didn’t fall to war. It fell because its architects ignored the sediment. They built a massive weight on a hollowed-out foundation. Sounds familiar?
Read in the post about:
The 1914 Circuit Diagram: How Donaldson Brown at DuPont originally built ROI as a diagnostic decomposition to understand why returns differed—a tool we have since lobotomized into a simple, binary checkbox.
The Protection Spell: Why the boardroom’s favorite “mathematical truth” is actually a defense mechanism used to avoid the messy work of diagnosis.
The Seven Layers of Sediment: An archaeological dig through 111 years of methodology bullshit, from 1972 SAP coding shortcuts to the accounting philosophies that enabled the 2008 crash.
The AI Sinkhole: Why applying this hollowed-out, century-old formula to “AI Transformation” is like measuring blood pressure while the ground is opening up beneath your feet.
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Ausblick auf 2026: Von hier an blind?
Der Titel beschreibt sehr poetisch die Haltung, sich mit positiver Erwartung auf eine unbekannte Zukunft einzulassen. Es ist einer meiner wichtigsten Grundwerte, der mich durch ein spannendes Leben geführt und mir ermöglicht hat, in vielerlei Hinsicht zu wachsen.
Aber: Damit ist nicht gemeint, sich ohne Risikoabwägung, ohne Planung und Vorbereitung ins Wagnis zu stürzen. Das ist nicht heldenhaft, das ist grob fahrlässig.
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Monastery of San Millán
This isn’t just a book storage. It’s a 1,000-year lesson in sustainable knowledge preservation. The monks who designed this understood something modern knowledge management completely…
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Essential Reading List 2025: After the AI Awakening
📸 credit: read 👉 here Post-ChatGPT Reality – an update to the 2023 Essential Reading List I love good old wine 🍷 and hung meat…
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Jemma el-Fnaa, the fist picture we start to explain
On the lookout for a visual for the Interactive BUSINESS Simulations in our Alchemy Lab we were of course – again – tempted to make…
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Mr. Waterfallon & Mr. Agilero – Episode Four: The Pyrrhic Victory
All Mr. Waterfallon & Mr Agilero Episodes… The Phyrric Victory (this one) Inside the Corporate Machine The Dark Side of Agile Theater The Eternal Dance…
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The Agile Delusion: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Corporate Absurdity
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. Shortly after this…
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Essential Reading List
I love good old wine 🍷and hung meat 🥩. One side dish to those pinnacles of hedonic well-being is an enlightening, intense, controversial discussion on…
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Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
As a die-hard futuristic Busines Value Artist*) and Digitization Evangelist*) (the more boring down-to-earth-term for this is Enterprise Transformation Implementer), I strive for opportunities to…
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Back from Hell
After the most recent Fuck Up Story at Kyndryl (read below the separator), I am back in town as what I love to be and…
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Extended Business Model Canvas (OOP2021)
Organize around value is since 5.0 the new and probably most fundamental SAFe principle to thrive in the digital age.To do so, you must talk…
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Library
Back in 2006, I listed in a blog post the application I perceive as true killer applications. I am somehow proud that the list items…
Ceterum censeo, SBaaS™ — Scaling Business as a Service is the way forward to Accelerate Growth!