Alexander Bockelmann

„Managers must clearly distinguish operational effectiveness from strategy. Both are essential, but the two agendas are different.“ And too often the important strategy work falls behind.

Full Moon captured by Commander Jeff WIlliams of NASA during Expedition 48 from ISS.

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Klimawandel…ein trauriger und beängstigender Trend, der immer schneller wird. @gri_mm zeigt dies mit ein paar deutlichen Data Charts.

Sometimes it is scary how quickly new AI capabilities evolve.

The Bank of Japan just raised interest rates for the first time in 17 years. Here are the implications for global markets. 1/

Somehow it all shows up in the Simpsons at some point.

A "cognitive bias" is a systematic error in thinking that ruins decision-making. The 12 most powerful cognitive biases I've found:

Interesting thought. However, I would not see GenAI as a platform. For me it is more a capability on top of data and other systems, either as a new UI and/or as an add-on with ist own capabilities.

[VIDEO] The Humane AI pin just launched for $699. Is this pin going to be the new Apple iPhone? Idk, but here are 3 big takeaways from the launch: 1. OpenAI/Microsoft will eventually become infra for all tech Hard to beat them at this rate, they will become AWS for AI 2. AI is gonna make apps (as we know them) a lot less important Screenless interfaces powered by AI will be connected to apps on the back end and bundled into a subscription service My Humane subscription will come with Tidal and I will rarely/never need to interface with tidal again Many consumer products will go from B2C -> B2B 3. Product design is going to look a lot different in 5-10 years Maybe unrecognizable. The bottom line is how we are interacting with these devices are changing. This week we had the GPT store. Agents are the new apps. Now we have AI pins. The palm of your hand is your new screen. Wild times. -- Follow me @gregisenberg for more takes on where the world is going. Link in bio for more insights. Email going out today on how to find proven startup ideas.

🔵 Profitability (over growth) is also the new priority for insurers. → carriermanagement.com/news/2023/10/1… "Nearly half of 400 insurance executives responding to a recent survey said their current priorities center on improving profitability rather than growing their businesses".

Data Warehouse vs. Data Lake / Lakehouse vs. Data Mesh Source for #infographic: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Danke an die Mobility Pioneers und Prof. Andreas Herrmann für einen spannenden Austausch zur Mobilität der Zukunft und warum die neue #Mobilität eine strategische Bedeutung für die #Baloise hat. @baloise_ch buzzsprout.com/1665217/136202…

The way that Jensen Huang runs Nvidia is wild: 40 direct reports, no 1:1s - Believes that the flattest org is the most empowering one, and that starts with the top layer - Does not conduct 1:1s - everything happens in a group setting - Does not give career advice - "None of my management team is coming to me for career advice - they already made it, they're doing great" No status reports, instead he "stochastically samples the system" - Doesn't use status updates because he believes they are too refined by the time they get to him. They are not ground truth anymore. - Instead, anyone in the company can email him their "top five things" with whatever is top of mind, and he will read it - Estimates he reads 100 of these everyone morning Everyone has all the context, all the time - No meetings with just VPs or just Directors - anyone can join and contribute - "If you have a strategic direction, why tell just one person?" - "If there is something I don't like, I just say it publicly" - "I do a lot of reasoning out loud" No formal planning cycles - No 5 year plan, no 1 year plan - Always re-evaluating based on changing business and market conditions (helpful when AI is developing at the pace that it is) This org is optimized for (1) attracting amazing people, (2) keeping the team as small as it can be, and (3) allowing information to travel as quickly as possible

Did you spot that insurance-related feature announced at the Apple Event earlier today? It's a Roadside Assistance via satellite, in partnership with AAA.

"Insurance is all about data", they say. While Open Insurance is at the corner, the customers' willingness to share data with their carrier has long been a question. 🔵 This Sollers' survey shares a glimpse on that topic and explores different geographies and data sources. Overall it appears customers are rather eager to share their data: around 1/3 in average. But the survey takes a bold assumption - according to me - highlighting a potential premium discount in exchange for these data. It could have been interesting to run the survey again without that compensation and explore other benefits of such data sharing (I think about personalization for instance). Nevertheless, that rather high level of readiness to share is very exciting for the insurance industry and an opportunity to leverage for InsurTech startups.

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Scary to the the ongoing trend in CO2 and avg. temperature continue to rise like that. The unfortunately is no planet B around. #ClimateChange

Cybersecurity is always top of the agenda. Sometimes also with an early morning briefing session. Thank you to Prof. Bettina Schneider for the interesting morning briefing.