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Table of contents
- Strategy Fundamentals
- Climatic Patterns
- Collaboration and Language
- Inertia and Change Management
- Competition
- Reference
Strategy Fundamentals
Unlock the Power of Transparency
| Date | 2024-04-09 |
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Article exploring how transparency in strategy through Wardley Mapping creates shared understanding, reduces miscommunication, and enables better decision-making across organisations by making assumptions visible and testable.
Thinking Small: Powerful Strategies
| Date | 2024-04-11 |
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Guide to the doctrine of thinking small - focusing on small, incremental improvements rather than large transformation programmes. Explains how small bets, rapid iteration, and cellular team structures drive sustainable strategic advantage.
The Anti-Pattern Organisation
| Date | 2024-04-14 |
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Analysis of common organisational anti-patterns that undermine strategy execution. Covers symptoms like outsourcing core competencies, applying single methodologies universally, and confusing operational efficiency with strategic effectiveness.
Mastering User Needs: A Strategic Approach
| Date | 2024-04-15 |
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Deep dive into identifying and mapping user needs - the anchor point of every Wardley Map. Covers techniques for user research, needs decomposition, and validating that your value chain genuinely serves real user requirements.
Mastering Strategy: A Journey of Continuous Learning
| Date | 2024-04-19 |
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Homepage content for WardleyMaps.AI introducing the platform’s mission to democratise strategic thinking through Wardley Mapping education, tools, and community resources for practitioners at all levels.
Wardley Mapping Doctrine
| Date | 2024-04-19 |
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Comprehensive reference on Wardley Mapping doctrine - the universal principles that apply regardless of context. Covers categories including communication, development, operation, structure, and learning with practical application guidance.
Mastering the Game: Strategic Gameplay
| Date | 2024-04-21 |
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Guide to offensive and defensive strategic plays in Wardley Mapping. Covers tactics like open approaches, ecosystem plays, tower and moat strategies, and how to select appropriate gameplay based on landscape position.
Climatic Patterns
Learning Climatic Patterns
| Date | 2024-04-18 |
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Educational resource covering the 31 climatic patterns in Wardley Mapping - the external forces that affect all players in a landscape. Explains patterns like “Everything evolves”, “Characteristics change”, and “No choice on evolution”.
Understanding Climatic Patterns in Context
| Date | 2024-05-14 |
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Advanced exploration of climatic patterns with real-world examples and case studies. Shows how to identify patterns affecting your landscape, predict future changes, and position strategies to take advantage of inevitable evolution.
Collaboration and Language
Building a Common Language for Collaboration
| Date | 2024-04-19 |
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Guide to using Wardley Maps as a communication tool across teams and stakeholders. Explains how maps create shared vocabulary, reduce ambiguity in strategic discussions, and enable productive debate about positioning and priorities.
Inertia and Change Management
The Power of the ILC Model
| Date | 2024-05-17 |
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Exploration of the Innovation-Leverage-Commoditise (ILC) model for sustainable competitive advantage. Explains how organisations can systematically innovate, leverage innovations across products, then commoditise to capture efficiency gains.
Understanding and Managing Inertia in AI Implementations
| Date | 2024-05-18 |
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Practical guide to identifying and overcoming organisational resistance to AI adoption. Maps common inertia sources including skills gaps, process dependencies, and cultural resistance, with strategies for each.
The Managing Complex Change Model
| Date | 2024-05-21 |
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Framework for navigating complex organisational change using Wardley Mapping principles. Combines evolution understanding with change management best practices to create realistic transformation roadmaps.
Managing Inertia
| Date | 2024-05-21 |
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Foundational article on organisational inertia in strategic contexts. Explains why past success creates resistance to change, how inertia manifests across different organisational levels, and tactics for identification and mitigation.
Understanding John Boyd’s OODA Loop
| Date | 2024-05-22 |
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Analysis of John Boyd’s Observe-Orient-Decide-Act loop and its application to strategic decision-making. Explores how faster OODA loops create competitive advantage and how Wardley Mapping accelerates orientation.
Strategies for Overcoming Organisational Inertia
| Date | 2024-05-23 |
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Practical playbook of tactics for overcoming inertia including education, co-option, market evidence, and managed attrition. Provides guidance on selecting appropriate approaches based on inertia type and organisational context.
Competition
Understanding Competition in Wardley Mapping
| Date | 2024-05-29 |
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Strategic analysis of competitive dynamics through Wardley Mapping. Covers competitor identification, landscape analysis, anticipating competitive moves, and selecting appropriate responses based on component evolution and market position.
Reference
Wardley Mapping Glossary
| Date | 2024-05-17 |
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Comprehensive glossary of Wardley Mapping terminology. Defines key concepts including evolution stages, doctrine principles, climatic patterns, gameplay tactics, and mapping notation with cross-references and examples.