Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones (Google Cloud Next 2017)

I thought I should include at least one “full” Simon Wardley presentation here.

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This talk feels like someone throwing rolls of hundred dollar bills at you, but you fail to grab them because they keep hitting you on the head and knocking you off your feet.

Some of my favourite slides:

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This is an amazing reaction. And yes — I’ve been trying to get smarter about Wardley and his framework for years. I want other people to learn it so we can learn together.

Apologies for broken images, we really have to fix that.

I had simply assumed you were already refining your Wardley map for Fission all these years… Learning together sounds great, I’d like that.

I also think a lot about the Walt Disney synergy map (image via open culture):

Have you seen any tools for making either of these maps?