June 02, 2022

Optimising sociotechnical systems (Ship It! #55)

1 hour 8 minutes

Today we are talking how to optimise sociotechnical systems with Ben Ford, founder & CEO of Mission Control. The correct order is: people, process & technology. The tools are important, and we talk about specific ones in the second half of this episode, but there are rules and principles that govern how people interact, and we need to start there.

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Show Notes:

🎧 Ship It! #4 OODA for operational excellence

🎬 The Paradox of Control - NATO C2COE C2 Webinar 2021 - Ben Ford

Mission ctrl - Organisation engineering as a service

Strapi - Next.js Corporate Starter

Appsmith - Open source framework to build internal tools

Metabase - Business Intelligence

Cube.dev - Open Source Headless Business Intelligence

Causal.app - Business Planning Platform

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