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Mike Daly

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Don’t be afraid to fail: what I learned from five days in China

First hand experience of the necessity for a fail-fast/learn-fast approach to ensure successful digital transformation projects. 

Black-Box Thinking

in action.

Another first for me was spending the night in Alibaba’s FlyZoo Future Hotel, complete with facial recognition check-in, robot room service and ‘barbots’ that mix cocktails. Now as much as that sounds wonderful, the reality is a little different. It’s actually a lot of people running around trying to fix the tech that isn’t working! This really highlighted a key element of their winning mentality though. They know it’s not perfect yet, but it will be. They fail fast until they succeed, which is why they’re so advanced.

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iterative development, digital transformation, digital claims