What is a Product Thinking Mindset?

    This post is the first in a series on Product Thinking:

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    Money Flows Part III: You’re Only As Agile As Your Budget

    Previously, we’ve written about how money flows across your business ultimately determines your operating culture, with posts on how transforming IT starts with finance, and how agility is related to ...

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    Are Your Cloud Native Transformation Timelines Realistic?

    Under the heading ‘The Future of Cloud’, Gartner ran a symposium for CIOs and IT executives in 2022 including much discussion about strategies relating to Cloud and Cloud Native trends. At least two o...

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    What Can AI Safety Teach Us about Strategic Planning? Part 4: Building the House

    Through parts 1, 2 and 3 we have established an understanding of the foundational thinking that supports the idea of CEV as an effective way of thinking about strategic planning in business.

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    What Can AI Safety Teach Us about Strategic Planning? Part 3: The Business as an Entity

    In Part 2 with dived into Eliezer Yudkowski’s theory of Coherent Extrapolated Volition and examined the component parts of the idea that, “our coherent extrapolated volition is our wish if we knew mor...

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    What Can AI Safety Teach Us about Strategic Planning? Part 2: Coherent Extrapolated Volition

    In Part 1 we reviewed two key foundational theories of AI safety and how they relate to strategic planning in business. Instrumental convergence tells us that there will be potentially unforeseen and ...

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    What Can AI Safety Teach Us about Strategic Planning? Part 1: Foundations

    We publish this series of blogs as Microsoft has just launched its combination of ChatGPT and Bing, generating considerable excitement in almost every industry. Dall-E and ChatGPT (and, most recently,...

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    What We Do @CS: The Yin and Yang of Technical and Organisational Change

    At Container Solutions, we often work with customers who approach us saying they need a Cloud Native Transformation because they are not able to deliver fast enough. Typically, a leader will tell us t...

    WTFinar (with transcript): When (If Ever) is Cloud Repatriation the Right Move?

    With a few notable exceptions, the traffic of workload movement over the past decade has moved firmly one way: from the data centre to the cloud.