Experimental Mind: Shiva Manjunath, Historians, Failure Museum...
Your overview of interesting reads, events and jobs for the experimental mind: #197
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Something I have been pondering on lately:
📜 Every organisation should have a historian
Having someone or some system that fulfills the role of a historian can offer several benefits. Here are 5 reasons why.
1. Institutional Memory: A historian helps preserve and document the institutional memory of the organisation. This includes its founding principles, key milestones, successes, failures, and the lessons learned from experiments. This knowledge is crucial for maintaining continuity and avoiding the repetition of mistakes.
2. Learning from the Past: History provides valuable insights into what has worked and what hasn't in the past. By understanding the organisation's history, leaders and decision-makers can make more informed choices and avoid repeating errors. This can contribute to better strategic planning and decision-making.
3. Cultural Continuity: A historian can play a role in preserving and promoting the organisational culture. Understanding the evolution of the organisation's values, traditions, and practices helps employees connect with the company's identity and fosters a sense of belonging.
4. Inspiration and Motivation: A well-preserved history can inspire employees by highlighting the organisation's achievements and the challenges it has overcome. This sense of history can instill pride and motivation among the workforce.
5. Documentation for Success and Failure Analysis: A historian can provide documentation for success and failure analysis. Analyzing both successful and unsuccessful endeavors can lead to a deeper understanding of the factors that contribute to success and the pitfalls to avoid.
Who knows an organisation that already has a historian?
[Published on the Experimental Mind blog]
💬 Shiva Manjunath: My Experimentation Career Journey
Today’s interview is with Shiva Manjunath. You might know Shiva as the “The Experimentation Memelord”. He has been been in experimentation for 10+ years or so now and is the host of the experimentation podcast From A to B!
Don’t think your experimentation program sucks … All programs start somewhere – keep on grinding to build the absolute best program you can! — Shiva Manjunath
Read the full interview with Shiva
🔎 Interesting things you might have missed
Benchmarking on experimentation tooling
How Adevinta decided to continue building their experimentation platform (versus opt for a third-party solution). READFailure.museum
An online collection by Sean Jacobsohn with artifacts from failed companies and products. Plus what we can learn from each of these failures. READMoitreyee Dasgupta and Leihua Ye describe how they implemented this variance reduction technique. READ
Opportunity Solution Trees FAQs
OSTs are a simple way of visually representing the paths you might take to reach a desired outcome. Teresa Torres explains the benefits of using one and how to create one. READ
Reflections from MIT CODE ‘23
Sven Schmit shares some of his personal takeaways and highlights from the CODE conference. READSame from Netflix
Overview of Netflix’s contributions. READReflections Conversion Hotel 2023 conference
In case you missed it last time. READ
🚀 Job opportunities
Looking for a new challenge in experimentation? Find 100+ experimentation related jobs on ExperimentationJobs.com. These jobs are from all over the world, on-site, fully remote or hybrid. Take a look and start pivoting your career.
This week’s featured roles:
Growth Lead at Cleo (London, United Kingdom)
Principal Product Designer, Growth and Experimentation at Yahoo (USA)
Digital Experimentation Data Specialist at Lego (London, United Kingdom)
Senior, Data Scientist – Experimentation at Walmart (San Bruno, USA)
Growth Strategist at CRO Metrics (USA)
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📅 Upcoming events
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😃 This made me smile
Promotion Driven Product Development by Workchronicles.
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