These thoughts have been germinating for a while, finally coming together after reading this on Glen Pearson’s blog: I am learning that these people ["from all political stripes" who manage to work together] are looking for a “place,” a way of being that can reflect political differences while at the same time maintaining the deep respect [...]
decision-making
Open/Conceptual Aim #1: Digitizing Our Decision-Making Processes
by OpenConceptual on 07-12-2009
in mission
Just sort of a brainstorm here, following up on some of my relatively more youthful attempts to outline what this is all about: Draft Enterprise Model The Practice of Theory The other day I jotted down a few points — trying to distill the underlying mission of this amorphous enterprise. It has a few different [...]
Tagged as: accountability, articulation, beta, business, change, civics, decision-making, decisions, design thinking, digitization, government, information, objectivity, open, open government, open source, openness, org theory, organizations, participation, politics, pragmatism, social web, society, transparency, volunteering, web

Driving Processes
by OpenConceptual on 07-30-2009
in commentary,concepts
You will hear people talking about “latency,” which means the delay between a trading signal being given and the trade being made. Low latency — high speed — is what banks and funds are looking for. Yes, we really are talking about shaving off the milliseconds that it takes light to travel along an optical [...]
Tagged as: control, decision-making, decisions, finance, intuition, judgment, latency, mind, objectivity, pattern recognition, process, quantitative finance