First Slide Deck
A collection of notes turned into this first version of a slide deck in late 2020 to carry the conversations forward. As you can see with the headlines, the intent here is to get better at asking the questions in search of more answers. I aspire to have the climate knowledge to create a deck worthy of a Minto MECE audience one day.
Say it with Harvey Balls
What is not to like about round ideograms used for visual communication of qualitative information placed in a table to compare the degree to which a particular item meets a particular criterion. This is my initial draft on a complicated and evolving landscape given a first wave intake of information. Updates are forthcoming.
Balancing Operations
Energy and climate change is a system problem. Professor Bill Lovejoy at the University of Michigan Business School left so many impressions with me on how to think about solving systems problems with operations strategy. One in particular is to keep in mind how variability of information impacts the capacity and inventory that needs to be provided in the system. I have used this framework to troubleshoot and validate hypotheses from supply chain management to application of AI-trained decision agents. Meeting global energy demand while maximizing clean energy capacity and inventory is the challenge that many talented and dedicated people are tackling. Balance is the tricky bit.
Interconnected Ecosystem
Applications people use on the Device of their choice on the Networks upon which they run while collecting the Data needed for growth are interconnected. The question is where do you see yourself in this triangle. Many battle scars and lessons learned being a part of this triangle play in the transformation of communications and enterprise cloud computing.
Building a Software Platform
Climate change is an atoms problem. Technology bits seem to be part of the overall solution. The intersection of atoms and bits will likely involve a software platform that is able to deliver compelling use cases (i.e. the top in the above diagram) while aggregating and making sense of disparate inputs (i.e. the bottom).