Learn to build the model in this post here. In today’s digital-obsessed world, it’s easy to forget that we still rely heavily on many boring old asset-intensive industries – power, water and other utilities, of course, but also public infrastructure, transportation, and many manufacturing sectors. And it’s not hard to…

International Aid programs I recall work for a senior Aid-program leader at the UK’s Dept for International Development (now part of the Foreign Office), showing how dynamic models could radically improve the planning and delivery of development Aid programs. This ended with a mini-conference to review this and other ‘systems’…

I have often hinted – or more than ‘hinted’ – that spreadsheets are not fit-for-purpose for time-based planning, challenges or initiatives.  … so I tried a small exercise to see just how poor they actually are. (Catch a video explaining the issues here) I have previously talked about a model…

I’ve talked before about the rock-solid theory behind dynamic business models that enable them to be true digital twins – accurate replicas that both look like and behave like the real world. But how to illustrate the deep, deep principle that makes this so … ? Feathers and flapping Think…

I posted recently about how competition operates through 3 distinct mechanisms: I mentioned that these 3 mechanisms feature more or less strongly in different markets, vary in their influence over an industry’s life, and most often operate simultaneously, though with varying significance. This graphic shows how type-1 competition dominates the…

Now there is, of course, considerable use of mathematical analytics, in many guises, right across the business world. Very clever people doing awesomely sophisticated things with huge amounts of detailed data to improve efficiency and effectiveness in every part of an organisation. So how come, when it comes to figuring out…