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Digital Skills Provide a Development Path for Sub-Saharan Africa

Harvard Business Review

They can export digital skills to Western Europe, United States, and Asia through the unbounded and unconstrained opportunities the internet has provided through “digital jobs” from music to software development to prompt engineering.

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Overton Window: How extreme ideas become mainstream

Idea to Value

The Overton Window was developed by policy analyst Joseph Overton, to explain how ideas and policies would only be viable if they fell within a range of what society would accept. Popular: other ideas on an issue which people generally agree are positive.

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Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy

Idea to Value

Goodhart’s Law is named after economist Charles Goodhart, who in an 1975 essay about Monetary policy noticed that “ Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.

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Here comes the hypenated innovation offering

Jeffrey Phillips

This slight rant of mine was started when I saw a new software application talk about its ability to help its clients in agile lean innovation. Agile is a word adopted from software development, which is really just about stripping away a slow, steady development process replacing it with short "sprints" to complete a few features at a time.

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The Root Cause for Innovation Theater and How to Avoid It

Leanstack

If you simply incentivize software developers to write more lines of code, more lines of code get written, but performance and quality suffer. Thankfully, we have done away with many of these policies. However, in some cases, we have still only replaced old local KPIs with a new local KPI?

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Integrating ‘Agile’ Approaches into ‘Waterfall’ Cultures

InnovationTraining.org

Agile is a more recently developed process, first adopted as a term in the early 2000’s by software developers gathered in Snowbird, UT to represent a basket of flexible planning methodologies. It similarly looks first at the desired endpoint and then works backward to achieve that preferred destination. Core Elements of Agile.

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As our lives become more automated, these are the skills you’ll need

Faisal Hoque

It goes on to urge governments to take a harder look at their educational policies and how those policies can “rapidly raise education and skills levels of individuals of all ages, particularly with regard to both STEM and non-cognitive soft skills, enabling people to leverage their uniquely human capabilities.”.