Lean Impact by Ann Mei Chang

“Lean impact” by Ann Mei Chang takes lessons from the Lean Startup methodology and applies them to impact-making, which is a bit more complex than the traditional startup. She has some new approaches and many examples about social entrepreneurship and impact funding. The main question is this: How to optimise the impact on the world,…

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The CEO perspective on embracing AI

Do CEOs of NGOs or social enterprises take advice from McKinsey? Not blindly, I would hope. They are in bed with the wrong guys too often. However, they do hire quite smart people, who then gather valuable experience. I came across an example, where Tamim Saleh, senior partner at McKinsey, discusses AI from the perspective…

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We visualise data, but not just for aesthetic effect

Look at that data below. You instantly know these four sets of data points are vastly different, and thus your expectations about what new data would look like are also different. Yet, a computer might not notice what you are noticing. Many statistical features of these sets are equal – means of both x and…

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