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Better Questions
Categories Innovation Mastery

Get The Right Answer
Without Being Specific:
How to formulate better choices and more valuable unknowns
through Key Decisions and Knowledge Gaps

  • Katherine Radeka
  • August 31, 2021
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When COVID hit, we had to figure out a way to train people how to use the Rapid Learning Cycles framework virtually, when up to this point, I had only delivered face-to-face workshops and strongly recommended that teams only do…

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Categories Innovation Mastery

To Accelerate Net-Zero, Commit Early but Decide Late

  • Katherine Radeka
  • June 28, 2021
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A growing number of major companies are following the lead of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to set aggressive targets for achieving net zero carbon emissions in their businesses. To hit those commitments, companies need to make important decisions about where…

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Categories Innovation Mastery

3 Reasons Why Good Decisions
Can’t Be Scored:
Why numbers lead teams astray in their most important decisions —
and what to do instead.

  • Katherine Radeka
  • June 7, 2021
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When my partner and I were driving through the Luxembourg countryside, we enjoyed the beautiful sights: scenic mountains with hilltop castles and lush forests. As night began to fall, the fog descended. At first, it was beautiful. Then visibility became…

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Find Your Nuds
Categories Innovation Mastery

How Teams Can Find Focus, Even When They’re Overwhelmed:
Find your NUDs — those things that are New, Unique or Difficult — to find your focus

  • Katherine Radeka
  • June 2, 2021
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Recently, my thinking about Key Decisions has changed. I used to think that teams needed to address all their high impact/high unknown Key Decisions and that teams could be trusted to come up with the right ones within a few cycles…

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Categories Innovation Mastery

How to Prioritize Your Team’s
Highest Impact Decisions:
Why purpose statements bring Key Decisions
and Knowledge Gaps into focus.

  • Katherine Radeka
  • May 12, 2021
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In 2018, a paying passenger was dragged off of a United flight by law enforcement officers because United needed the seat to reposition crew members so that they’d be in place to start the next day. The passenger was injured…

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Categories Innovation Mastery

How Scientists and Engineers Can Design Their Experiments the Right Way:
Why the Build-Test-Fix mode is the most intuitive, but wrong.

  • Katherine Radeka
  • April 20, 2021
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When we’re in the midst of development, especially if we are hot on the trail of a new idea, we can easily lose sight of the rhythm of the entire program in the search for solutions to individual development challenges.…

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Categories Innovation Mastery

Why Sharply Focusing on One Idea Strengthens Your Key Decisions and Knowledge Gaps

  • Katherine Radeka
  • April 14, 2021
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When it comes to organizing things, my partner Gene is a “lumper” and I am a “splitter.” You can tell by the organization of our computer files. I have organized my files into nested folders so that I can find…

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Categories Innovation Mastery

You Don’t Have to Learn Everything the Hard Way 
How to Encourage Your Teams to Leverage the Knowledge You Already Have

  • Katherine Radeka
  • March 23, 2021
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We had such a great response to the Spot Check case study from David Stokes that we've embarked on a campaign to identify more members of our community willing to contribute one. These stories help those considering Rapid Learning Cycles…

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Categories Innovation Mastery

You Don’t Have to Learn Everything the Hard Way 
How to Encourage Your Teams to Leverage the Knowledge You Already Have

  • Katherine Radeka
  • March 23, 2021
  • 0

We had such a great response to the Spot Check case study from David Stokes that we've embarked on a campaign to identify more members of our community willing to contribute one. These stories help those considering Rapid Learning Cycles…

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Why Events Don't Move
Categories Innovation Mastery

Rapid Learning Cycle Events Don’t Move:
Three Ways the Rapid Learning Cycles Framework
Reinforces Project Timelines

  • Katherine Radeka
  • June 8, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted every team that I work with, in some way. My own staff left the office one Friday afternoon with laptops in mid-March, and I haven’t seen them in person since that day. The temptation in…

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