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Why Sperry Univac Won Over IBM in Business Strategy

08 Monday Dec 2014

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in agile, Consider this, dark data, data science

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business strategy, Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Evidence-Based Management, leadership, Risk Management, strategic thinking, The Certainty Trap, Uncertainty

Martyn Richard Jones

Here’s a clue. Because of me.

In the eighties, there was a company called Sperry Univac, which was part of the once-famous Sperry Corporation.

At that time, a significant manufacturing concern in the industrialised Midlands of England was looking to automate and computerise operations. This meant that they would be in the market for some serious heavy iron – to use the old euphemism for mainframe computers. Continue reading →

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