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Phase: Stop Self Harm

Principle: Bias Towards Data

Bias Towards Data

Learning

Motivation

The purpose of mapping is not only to create a map and a shared understanding. It is also to learn climatic patterns, doctrine and context specific play. Maps provide a systematic way of doing this as long as you collate, review and learn from them. Have a bias towards such learning and the use of data.

Consider these first

Illustrative description

Use a systematic mechanism of learning.

Detailed description

Up to now, Spend Control provided challenge before new projects and actions. Now, add an After Action Review to learn what happened with those projects and actions. Use the same mechanism of communication: maps. This completes the feedback loop of learning. This feedback loop is a repeatable process:

  1. Produce a map.
  2. Challenge the map.
  3. Decide what to do.
  4. Act.
  5. Update the map based on the outcome.
  6. Conduct After Action Review to learn.
  7. Go to step 1.
The image illustrates a process improvement framework involving three stages: 'Before Action Challenge', 'Spend Control', and 'After Action Review'. The 'Before Action Challenge' and 'After Action Review' stages display similar strategic maps, likely depicting an analysis or comparison before and after a specific action or set of actions. These stages are linked by a large curved arrow labeled 'Spend Control', indicating the control or management of expenditure as a central focus of the process. At the bottom of the image, there's a text box labeled 'Doctrine' with the words 'Bias towards data', suggesting a principle or policy of prioritizing data-driven decision-making throughout the process.

The After Action Review improves future Before Action Challenges. Before Action Challenges provide the base from which we learn.

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Adapted from writings by Simon Wardley under CC BY-SA 4.0