Below is an excerpt from a detailed case study titled Innovation at Watercare Services, co-authored by Apra Boyle-Gotla, Head of Innovation at Watercare and AGLX Managing Director, Steve McCrone. ...
Within the OODA loop, Orientation is what makes You You. What Makes You You. Cognition, consciousness, and perception of reality are emergent properties of Cultural Traditions, Genetic Heritage,...
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Overcoming the Barriers to Exploration
We had completed a series of workshops and meetings with a client to set up a playbook to enable innovation. It was time to bring this new process into the business. The team started to encounter...
AGLX’s MD Steven McCrone was recently interviewed on The Salience Podcast, a podcast which takes a “dive into the frontiers of advanced human performance.” Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gKDe52bT...
Steve is co-writing a book on complexity thinking with JP Castlin, due for release next year….watch this space. He was interviewed by Shann Biglione and Rachel Mercer for the Overthinkers Podcast ...
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The Importance of Experimentation
Our Managing Director, Steve McCrone was interviewed for the podcast and YouTube channel Being Human in May 2021. Being Human is a podcast aimed at “bringing deeper perspectives to the business...
There are big shifts going on in the energy and utilities sectors, with changes in the social licence to operate and the rapidly shifting economic model. There’s an awareness of climate change and...
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Case Study – Craigmore Sustainables
Craigmore Sustainables (Craigmore) is a private Kiwi company specialising in the investment and management of over 40 farm and forest properties across New Zealand; with over 250 permanent staff....
While Social Distancing is used as a constraint to slow the flow of the novel coronavirus, the flow of (dis)information through our distributed social networks is susceptible to a new kind of...
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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Loathed Lean?
Chances are you have never picked up and read his Aerial Attack Study—an Air Force official document that codified aerial maneuvers for pilots interested in dominating their opponents in air-to-air...
John Boyd’s Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) loop is often associated with fighter aviation where a human straps on a machine (fighter aircraft) and competes against another human-machine system in...
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Planning Sessions and Daily Scrums, TOPGUN Style
Back in 2014, when the July 2013 Scrum Guide was current and before the book, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time was published, a group of former TOPGUNs sat in an Atlanta-area...