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Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones

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Argues that strategy succeeds by building situational awareness with visual maps that anchor on user needs and show a value chain plus an evolution axis, not by buzzwords. Uses Wardley Maps to spot climatic patterns, doctrine and where to attack; cites startling duplication like 103 workflow systems and a bank with 1,000 risk systems. Describes building the Simky JavaScript front/back serverless platform that grew fast but was shut down when a utility player arrived, and later driving Ubuntu to ~70% cloud share.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 0:24A dreaded word
  3. 1:32Fake CEO
  4. 2:16Strategy documents
  5. 2:40Blah blah blah
  6. 3:19Our strategy
  7. 4:00Strategy as a service
  8. 4:39Sun Tzu
  9. 5:09The Cycle
  10. 5:37Why
  11. 6:17Situational Awareness
  12. 6:34Maps
  13. 7:06Quick Question
  14. 7:17Chess World
  15. 7:49Big Data
  16. 8:51Themistocles
  17. 10:10Chess and Alchemy
  18. 10:48Map vs Environment
  19. 11:11Network topology
  20. 11:32User needs
  21. 12:16climactic patterns
  22. 12:49common economic paths
  23. 13:17universally applicable principles
  24. 13:41duplication
  25. 14:36discovering
  26. 15:05town planners
  27. 15:23leadership
  28. 15:34context
  29. 17:45SimKey
  30. 17:59Amazon
  31. 18:29Buntune
  32. 18:48The Future
  33. 19:19Summary
  34. 19:39Crossing the River
  35. 19:56Mapping Camp
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