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Introduction – Why You Should Invest in Good Strategy
If you want to run a high performing business, there is perhaps nothing more important than (a) developing a winning strategy and (b) executing that strategy effectively.
Ray Bamford
Supercharging Your Strategic Objectives and Key Results
As a leader, your primary task is to define the priorities and objectives of your organization and lead your team to achieving them. In this executive brief, we define strategic results management, describe the top challenges we’ve seen organizations struggle with in this area, and outline best practices that have allowed organizations to supercharge their performance.
Ray Bamford
Strategic Decision Making Under Extreme Uncertainty
Leaders need to make strategic decisions in a world full of randomness and sometimes extreme uncertainty. The objective of this post is to help you improve strategic decision making by (A) understanding the characteristics and implications of extreme uncertainty, and (B) providing techniques to improve decisions and outcomes under these conditions.
Ray Bamford
Cancer Diagnosis - True or False Alarm?
Your friend has tested positive for a very rare and deadly cancer. Considering the accuracy of the test and the prevalence of the disease, what is the probability that your friend actually has this cancer?
Ray Bamford
The Likelihood of Encountering Someone Infected with COVID-19
When you encounter groups of people in public, what’s the probability that at least one of those people has COVID-19?
Ray Bamford
5 Decision Making Styles and When to Use Each One
Are you aware of your dominant decision making style? If we think purposefully about the situation we’re in, and apply the right decision making style for that context, we can significantly improve the quality of our decisions and the performance of our teams.
Ray Bamford
Improving COVID Readiness and Responsiveness with Local Patient Data and Machine Learning
In this white paper, we outline an approach to forecasting COVID-19 hospitalizations, and similar resource needs, based on local, patient-level demographic data. We combine local patient data with classical and modern machine learning methods that are uniquely well suited to this challenge. Our objective is to enable leaders at all levels to anticipate demand, maximize readiness, and improve patient outcomes – ultimately saving lives and accelerating the recovery of our economy.
Ray Bamford
Introduction – Why You Should Invest in Good Strategy
If you want to run a high performing business, there is perhaps nothing more important than (a) developing a winning strategy and (b) executing that strategy effectively.
Ray Bamford
Supercharging Your Strategic Objectives and Key Results
As a leader, your primary task is to define the priorities and objectives of your organization and lead your team to achieving them. In this executive brief, we define strategic results management, describe the top challenges we’ve seen organizations struggle with in this area, and outline best practices that have allowed organizations to supercharge their performance.
Ray Bamford
Strategic Decision Making Under Extreme Uncertainty
Leaders need to make strategic decisions in a world full of randomness and sometimes extreme uncertainty. The objective of this post is to help you improve strategic decision making by (A) understanding the characteristics and implications of extreme uncertainty, and (B) providing techniques to improve decisions and outcomes under these conditions.
Ray Bamford
Cancer Diagnosis - True or False Alarm?
Your friend has tested positive for a very rare and deadly cancer. Considering the accuracy of the test and the prevalence of the disease, what is the probability that your friend actually has this cancer?
Ray Bamford
The Likelihood of Encountering Someone Infected with COVID-19
When you encounter groups of people in public, what’s the probability that at least one of those people has COVID-19?
Ray Bamford
5 Decision Making Styles and When to Use Each One
Are you aware of your dominant decision making style? If we think purposefully about the situation we’re in, and apply the right decision making style for that context, we can significantly improve the quality of our decisions and the performance of our teams.
Ray Bamford
Improving COVID Readiness and Responsiveness with Local Patient Data and Machine Learning
In this white paper, we outline an approach to forecasting COVID-19 hospitalizations, and similar resource needs, based on local, patient-level demographic data. We combine local patient data with classical and modern machine learning methods that are uniquely well suited to this challenge. Our objective is to enable leaders at all levels to anticipate demand, maximize readiness, and improve patient outcomes – ultimately saving lives and accelerating the recovery of our economy.
Ray Bamford
Executive Brief
If you want to run a high performing business, there is perhaps nothing more important than (a) developing a winning strategy and (b) executing that strategy effectively.
Ray Bamford
Executive Brief
As a leader, your primary task is to define the priorities and objectives of your organization and lead your team to achieving them. In this executive brief, we define strategic results management, describe the top challenges we’ve seen organizations struggle with in this area, and outline best practices that have allowed organizations to supercharge their performance.
Ray Bamford
White Paper
In this white paper, we outline an approach to forecasting COVID-19 hospitalizations, and similar resource needs, based on local, patient-level demographic data. We combine local patient data with classical and modern machine learning methods that are uniquely well suited to this challenge. Our objective is to enable leaders at all levels to anticipate demand, maximize readiness, and improve patient outcomes – ultimately saving lives and accelerating the recovery of our economy.
Ray Bamford
Fun With Math
When you encounter groups of people in public, what’s the probability that at least one of those people has COVID-19?
Ray Bamford
Fun With Math
Your friend has tested positive for a very rare and deadly cancer. Considering the accuracy of the test and the prevalence of the disease, what is the probability that your friend actually has this cancer?
Ray Bamford
Executive Brief
Are you aware of your dominant decision making style? If we think purposefully about the situation we’re in, and apply the right decision making style for that context, we can significantly improve the quality of our decisions and the performance of our teams.
Ray Bamford
White Paper
Leaders need to make strategic decisions in a world full of randomness and sometimes extreme uncertainty. The objective of this post is to help you improve strategic decision making by (A) understanding the characteristics and implications of extreme uncertainty, and (B) providing techniques to improve decisions and outcomes under these conditions.
Ray Bamford
Blog
A core principal of new venture creation is that no opportunity should be scaled before it is validated. The three essential elements of opportunity validation are demonstrating (1) custom desirability, (2) technical feasibility, and (3) business model viability.
Ray Bamford
Blog
Artificial intelligence is a potentially transformational technology. With this post, we will separate substance from hype and explore why AI is most likely both over-hyped AND under-hyped.
Ray Bamford
Blog
Seven essential practices to cultivate innovation.
Ray Bamford
Blog
The top five causes of human misjudgment and how to overcome them to make consistently high quality decisions.
Ray Bamford
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