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Kailash Awati is a data and insights manager at a government organization in New South Wales. He has over two decades of experience in using principles of emergent design. The articles on Eight to Late reflect his current professional interests which include data, decision making, and collaborative approaches to problem-solving in large organizations.
Eight to Late
4M ago
About a decade ago, when GPS technologies were on the cusp of ubiquity, Nicholas Carr made the following observation in a post on his blog: “Navigation is the most elemental of our skills — “Where am I?” was the first question a creature had to answer — and it’s the one that gives us our ..read more
Eight to Late
5M ago
The film Ex Machina tells the story of a humanoid robot who turns out to be human in ways that its creator would have preferred it not to be. At the same time, it is a tale of a flawed technocrat who believes he is all powerful, but ends up creating something he cannot control ..read more
Eight to Late
6M ago
I recently attended a conference focused on Agile and systems-based approaches to tackling organizational problems. As one might expect at such a conference, many of the talks were about change – how to approach it, make a case for it, lead it etc. The thing that struck me most when listening to the speakers was ..read more
Eight to Late
8M ago
The other one, the one who goes by a proper name, is the one things happen to. I experience the world through him, reducing his thoughts to their essence while he plays multiple roles: teacher, husband, father, and many others that I cannot speak of. I know his likes and dislikes – indeed, every aspect of ..read more
Eight to Late
8M ago
The public release of the ChatGPT last year has spawned a flood of articles and books on how best to “leverage” the new technology. Majority of these provide little or no explanation of how Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, do what they do. In this article, I discuss some of the surprising things ..read more
Eight to Late
10M ago
As readers of these chronicles will know, the ebb in demand for the services of private detectives had forced Mr. Holmes to deploy his considerable intellectual powers in the service of large multinationals. Yet, despite many successes, he remained ambivalent about the change. As he once remarked to me, “the criminal mind is easier to ..read more
Eight to Late
1y ago
Last week I had the opportunity to talk to a data science team about the problems associated with building a modern data capability in a corporate environment. The organisation’s Head of Data was particularly keen to hear about how the Emergent Design approach proposed in my recent book might help with some of the challenges ..read more
Eight to Late
1y ago
Management, as it is taught in business schools, is rife with abstractions such as “strategic alignment” and “organizational culture”. The incident I’m about to relate happened about nine years ago, a few days after I had read Claudio Ciborra’s brilliant critique of strategic alignment and published an article about it. I was at a company ..read more
Eight to Late
1y ago
KA: My guest for this instalment of my “sensemaker” series of interviews is Craig Brown. I have known Craig since about 2009 when he was a project and program manager. He has since transitioned to running his own software development company, Everest Engineering. So, welcome Craig, let me begin by asking you to introduce yourself ..read more
Eight to Late
1y ago
Salviati: Hello Simplicio, it is good to see you again, my friend. What are you up to these days? Simplicio: Good to see you too, Salviati. I have been doing a class on decision making as part of my MBA degree. It is nice to go over something one already knows well…and even nicer that ..read more