Impact of Increasing Complexity on Product Development Strategy
Just before the global announcement of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, I funded a master’s thesis in Product Development thanks to a grant from the Finnish Foundation for Economic Education, known colloquially as LSR. Here’s a screencap that shows the first outcome from our analysis of founder interviews of Finnish startups entering African markets. […]
Can Africa’s Informal Trade Ecosystems Provide Lessons for Navigating Uncertainty and Volatility in the post Pandemic World?
It is virtually impossible today to consider emerging markets without taking into consideration the vastly different operating environment of the majority of the countries in the global South. As the map, based on GSMA data, above shows clearly in bright red and blue, the clearest indication of this difference is in the way mobile telephony […]
The Magic of Sensemaking
Really, there’s no other way to say this but Weick (Weick, 2011) here is clearly struggling to express in words his song of magic that he’s perceived in the decades spent in sensemaking and its power. After all, if indeed the Kalevala highlights the core aspect of Finnish magic from the time before writing, when […]
