Patterns
Quiz: Why Teams Still Trust Spreadsheets After New Systems Go Live
A quick workplace quiz about why official systems, dashboards and ERPs go live while the spreadsheet and other offline artefacts are still trusted.
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Guides
Guide: How Many Times Is The Same Data Re-entered?
Small guide to check if your AI draft waits longer than the old manual draft. How much approval time is required for AI generated outputs?
Patterns
Quiz: Multiple SaaS integrations Exist, Why Is Manual Data Copy Also Live?
Take the quiz: Transformation is complete, systems connected, dashboards are live. Someone still spends half of their morning moving the same data between the various tools manually.
Guides
Guide: Human-In-The Loop but Where Is the Work Waiting?
Small guide to check if your AI draft waits longer than the old manual draft. How much approval time is required for AI generated outputs?
Field Notes
The Blue Blob and the Finished Transformation
Discoveries: A completed transformation surrounded by interesting activities in multiple areas around the room. The activities contain multiple Patterns to be uncovered in one scene.
Patterns
Quiz: AI Writes in 30 Secs, Why is Approval still Days?
Take the quiz: Human-in-the-loop or something else? This Pattern appears when the work output appears to be completed but the decision to release the work takes much longer. AI and Automation now makes the contrast more obvious.
the-chaos
Chaos: The Blue Blob and the Giant Bubble
The Blue blob stumbles across a Bubble debate but there also appears to be a lot of stuff inside the bubble not getting attention.
Signals
Signal: The Bubble Is Rarely The Whole Technology
The Bubble Is Rarely The Whole Technology: The lazy question is whether AI is a bubble. The better question is which layer is inflated, which layer is useful, and who is left cleaning up the difference.
Guides
Guide: Bubble Layer Checker
Bubble Layer Checker: A practical way to avoid lazy “bubble or not” debates by checking which layer is real, which layer is inflated and which layer creates work later.
the-chaos
Chaos: The Blue Blob and the New Floor
There doesn't appear to be a difference in usage between the newest floor and the oldest ones.
Guides
Guide: Vendor Layer Memory Guide
Vendor Layer Memory Guide: A practical guide for checking what old systems, old data and old workarounds a shiny new AI or vendor layer is about to inherit.
Signals
Signal: New Layers Inherit Old Mess
New Layers Inherit Old Mess: A new AI layer does not float above the business. It lands on everything the business already built, ignored, customised or forgot.