Practising to map based on books or articles

One way to practise Wardley Mapping is by mapping the contents of books or articles or tweets.

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1. Practising to map based
   on books/articles
   like a book club, but using maps
   @juliusgb2k
   

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2. About Me
   1. Fan of Wardley Mappings.
   2. Fan of Wardley Mappings.
   3. Work at Accenture as a Technology Architect & Software Engineer
   • I started there about 10 years ago in London.
   • Transferred to, and live in, Düsseldorf.
   • Work(ed) in different industries:
   • Public Services; Retail; Transportation; Payments
   Julius Gamanyi
   @juliusgb2k
   

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3. About Me
   @ruthmalan
   https://twitter.com/ruthmalan/status/1263521821216956417
   Julius Gamanyi
   @juliusgb2k
   What I do also tends to vary. So does the Scope.
   

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4. SITE RELIABILITY
   ENGINEERING
   MANY
   OTHERS
   MULTI-SPEED
   IT
   SERVERLESS AND
   CONTAINERS
   MULTI-SOURCING
   AND OFFSHORING
   LEAN
   IT
   ANALYTICS, AI AND
   AUTOMATION
   NO-CODE/LOW-CODE
   PLATFORMS
   DESIGN THINKING
   AND CX/UX
   DEV(SEC)OPS
   THINKING
   WHAT DOES THIS
   MEAN FOR US/ME?
   HOW DO WE
   MANAGE
   TECHNOLOGY
   CHANGES?
   “
   “
   Questions . . . headaches
   

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5. Discovering Wardley Maps &
   My tipping point
   

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7. Why practise with
   books/articles?
   

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8. 1. Non-Disclosure Agreements
   (NDAs)
   

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9. 2. Books give ‘shared’ context
   for mapping together
   

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10. 2. Books give ‘shared’ context
    for mapping together
    

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11. 3. Books provide the
    ‘matter’, and we give it
    ‘expression’ – a Map
    

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12. “The Composition of Themes involves the
    burden of finding matter as well as
    language; . . . For an English exercise, the
    matter should in some way or other be
    supplied, and the pupil disciplined in giving
    it expression.”
    Alexander Bain’s “English Composition and Rhetoric”
    By Unknown author - en:[1], NIH libraries. This
    image is in the public domain because its
    copyright has expired in those countries with a
    copyright term of no more than the life of the
    author plus 100 years., Public Domain,
    https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curi
    d=3233808
    

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13. “The Composition of Themes [Wardley
    Mapping] involves the burden of finding
    matter as well as language; . . . For an
    English [Mapping] exercise, the matter
    should in some way or other be supplied,
    and the pupil [Mapper] disciplined in giving
    it expression.”
    Remixed from Alexander Bain’s “English Composition and Rhetoric”
    By Unknown author - en:[1], NIH libraries. This
    image is in the public domain because its
    copyright has expired in those countries with a
    copyright term of no more than the life of the
    author plus 100 years., Public Domain,
    https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curi
    d=3233808
    

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14. Books on a Wardley Map
    

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15. Cognitive Hierarchy
    from
    Naval Doctrine Publication
    6
    https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA304321/page/n1/mode/2up
    

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16. Why practise with
    books/articles?
    

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17. Practice in Action
    

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18. Online map –
    Gerstner and IBM
    Von Kenneth C. Zirkel - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 3.0,
    https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32707537
    Click link above
    

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19. Strategy Cycle
    From Simon Wardley
    @swardley
    

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20. Strategy Cycle as Table – Loop #1
    Chapters 3 to 7
    Purpose Put out the fire - stop the bleeding - don't run out cash - be profitable
    Moral Imperative Patriotism - IBM's a national treasure/asset that we must rescue/save
    Landscape See Map
    Doctrine See map
    Climatic Patterns N/A
    Decide & Act Major decision: reposition the mainframe in order to cut its price.
    (1) Keep the company together
    [based on Landscape + a couple of Climatic Patterns – pp. 57-61]
    (2) Change the fundamental economic model. Reduce waste. (pp. 62-63)
    (3) Re-engineer how we did business (implementation took about 10 yrs)
    around 11 areas. Goal: improve doctrine + save money
    (4) Sell underproductive assets in order to raise cash. Generate money
    • Very urgent in first two years: 1993 to 1995
    • Not urgent but continued in subsequent years
    

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21. Strategy Cycle as Table – Loop #1
    Chapters 3 to 7
    Purpose Put out the fire - stop the bleeding - don't run out cash - be profitable
    Moral Imperative Patriotism - IBM's a national treasure/asset that we must rescue/save
    Landscape See Map
    Doctrine See map
    Climatic Patterns N/A
    Decide & Act Re-engineering:
    • in 1993 alone, from obvious excess, saved $2.8 Billion.
    • By end of 1995, had saved $2 Billion, just in IT.
    From 1994 to 1998, total savings from reengineering were $9.5 Billion
    (I'm assuming a time period of 8 years - from 1993 to 2001)
    (1) for Hardware development: from 4 years to 16 months
    (2) for on-time product delivery rates from 30% (in 1995) to 95% (in 2001)
    (3) inventory costs reduced by $80 million
    (4) write-offs reduced by $600 million
    (5) delivery costs reduced by $270 million
    (6) avoided material costs close to $15 Billion
    

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22. “Some books are to be tasted, others to be
    swallowed, and some few to be chewed and
    digested: that is, some books are to be read only
    in parts, others to be read, but not curiously,
    and some few to be read wholly, and with
    diligence and attention.” — Sir Francis Bacon, “The
    Essays”
    By Paul van Somer I - pl.pinterest.com, Public
    Domain,
    https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curi
    d=19958108
    

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