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Do to the increased speed of information and interconnected complexity of the world, organizations now find themselves operating within increased volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). As a result, there are fewer markets with unknown opportunities and places to hide during market turbulence. To address these trends business need to shift their thinking on what strategy or work means.

Currently, the majority of processes or strategies deployed at organizations are superficial and lead to a marginal, if any, competitive advantage at best or built on legacy assumptions that are not relevant nor accurate. At Walmart, I work on machine intelligence to optimize corporate strategy and business processes for the VUCA age. By analyzing financial, political and cultural trend dynamics, in addition to open source intelligence, with various machine learning techniques, I’ve come to the conclusion that competitive advantage lay in the embrace of complexity, faster information to action times, and the unorthodox, as well as being agnostic to how an entity makes money or reacts to markets – especially for asset-rich businesses. This site is meant to house some of my research and thinking in the above areas. The views and commentary expressed here are my own and do not represent Walmart.