The Serviceberry Mindset: How Nature’s Gift Economy Can Reshape Data Governance
For years, we’ve heard that breaking down data silos is the holy grail of business transformation. We’ve been told that better pipelines, integrated analytics, and AI-driven decision-making will finally unlock the full potential of enterprise data. But here’s the question no one seems to ask: What if we’re still thinking too small?
The real challenge isn’t just technological—it’s conceptual. We don’t just need better data governance or cleaner metadata. We need a way of thinking that moves beyond technical optimization and into deeper creative problem-solving. That’s where multidisciplinary thinking comes in.
Who is Richard (Dick) Hamming? Wisdom on the Art of Learning from One of the World’s Most Impactful Engineers
Richard (Dick) Hamming is one of the great minds of the 20th century. Below is an attempt to capture that wisdom in one shareable place. Here you will find a short introduction to Dick Hamming, featured work, three exercises/lessons from him (and ways to apply them), as well as a selection of quotes.
Who was Russ Ackoff? Quality ought to be directed at effectiveness.
Russell “Russ” Ackoff was one of the great minds of the 20th century. He was a longtime resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on Systems Thinking. For more than 20 years he was a professor of Systems Science at the Wharton School of business, and he was a lifelong friend of both Peter Drucker and W. E. Deming. His leadership theory defined a nascent branch of industrial engineering. He went on to write 30 other books, becoming one of the most influential management thinkers of our time.
