Serious Legislative Innumeracy
As I’ve already mentioned, in Serious Play, Michael Schrage, of the MIT Media Lab, examines how organizations use models, simulations, and prototypes to stimulate innovation. Sometimes even a valid...
View ArticleSerious Legislative Innumeracy
As I’ve already mentioned, in Serious Play, Michael Schrage, of the MIT Media Lab, examines how organizations use models, simulations, and prototypes to stimulate innovation. Sometimes even a valid...
View ArticleSerious Politics
It’s been a while since I last mentioned Michael Schrage’s Serious Play, which examines how organizations use models, simulations, and prototypes to stimulate innovation. One of his key points is that...
View ArticleLook, But Don’t Touch
I’ve been discussing Michael Schrage’s Serious Play, which examines how organizations use models, simulations, and prototypes to stimulate innovation: Can Detroit’s lagging competitiveness in the 1980s...
View ArticleZucchiniware
It has been a while since I mentioned Michael Schrage’s Serious Play, but I thought I’d share the story of Zucchiniware: One of the dullest low-level tasks in creating software at Microsoft is managing...
View ArticleSerious Accidents and Teamwork
In Serious Play, Michael Schrage describes how a life-or-death management issue was uncovered by accident, when regulators went to test the safety of pilots working longer shifts in the newly...
View ArticleSeriously Unwelcome Surprises
Michael Schrage notes that the real value of a model or simulation stems from its power to generate useful surprise: Louis Pasteur once remarked that “chance favors the prepared mind.” It holds equally...
View ArticleSTRIPS and Black Boxes
Michael Schrage warns of the dangers of black boxes: In 1991, Kidder hired Joseph Jett to arbitrage treasury bonds and STRIPS (separate trading of registered interest and principal of securities, i.e.,...
View ArticleSerious Power Trips
Serious games and simulations can lead to serious power trips: Policy and custom expressly forbid the president of the United States from active participation in decision making during...
View ArticleEverybody’s Second Choice
Michael Schrage cites former Chrysler vice chairman Robert Lutz on prototyping to avoid being everybody’s second choice: When we showed the early prototype for the new “big-rig-inspired” dodge Ram...
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