Experimental Mind: Uncertain Times
Globally awarding your growth in experimentation culture. Sharing inspirational stories by the nominees of 2022 during the live virtual broadcast: July 7th, 6pm UTC.
🔎 What I've been reading
The importance of experimentation in times of uncertainty:
Most existing strategy frameworks, developed during a more stable era, don’t work well in dynamic conditions. We need new frameworks to guide companies through uncertainty. And three key features emerge as common to these frameworks: the individual’s ability to cope with uncertainty; the organization’s ability to experiment; and recognizing that strategy is a creative exercise.
Leaders still matter, to ask the big questions and point people to the most important problems to solve, but the organization ready for the era of uncertainty is built to experiment and adapt.
🚀 Job opportunities
The new job board is live. In the coming weeks we'll keep adding more opportunities from the experimentation & CRO space.
This week's featured roles are:
Senior Data Scientist at Farfetch (Lisbon, Portugal)
Backend Engineer Experimentation at Spotify (remote, EMEA)
CRO Specialist at Randstad Global (Amsterdam, NL)
Digital Analyst at RTL (Hilversum, NL)
Webanalist at Kaartje2go (Zwolle, NL)
📅 Upcoming events
All upcoming events in the next months:
7 July: Experimentation Culture Awards (virtual)
🆕 13 July: Continuous Experimentation (virtual)
26 July: CRAP Talks #18 (London)
22 Aug: Accelerating Innovation with A/B Testing (virtual)
See the full overview of events to find other events and conferences for you and your team.
💬 Quote of the week
"Whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather than defend it." — Karl Popper
😉 Fun of the week
The concept of Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) was introduced to the world by Andy Grove (former CEO of Intel). Later John Doerr introduced this tool to Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google's founders) and it really took off. Larry Page even credits them with much of Google’s success:
"OKRs have helped lead us to 10x growth, many times over. They’ve kept the company on time and on track when it mattered most."
This made me smile 👇
☕ Thanks for reading
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Have a great week — and keep experimenting.
Kevin