What the VUCA? - digital responses to COVID -19
COVID-19 hit; country by country the world ground to a halt. We all became familiar with the headline stats, epidemiology became an interesting new profession. The R-number and contact tracing entered our lexicon as things we all knew about. One good if it’s low, the other something we needed to be able to do. March 21st Singapore released the TraceTogether app a Bluetooth, proximity-based digital contact tracing app. Many other countries had already started on similar journeys to build a system that could use technology to speed up and solve the problem of warning people when they became close contacts. The journey started on our national patron saints day March 17th – after 100 days (100 days in COVID time approximates to 3 years in the old world) an app was born (110 days there was a long labour). This is the story of all the apps born or buried during COVID-19 crisis to-date. It’s a story of rapid decision making, global collaboration, intense external scrutiny and hopefully redemption.
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What the VUCA?
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Leadership and Technology conference series
What the VUCA?
digital responses to COVID -19
Gar Mac Críosta – CITA-P
COVID Tracker Product Lead
Web
Summit
31st July
2020
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V - Volatile U - Uncertain
C - Complex A - Ambiguous
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A COVID-19 Architecture Adventure
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CONTEXT:
Pre-pandemic In-pandemic
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THE PROBLEM:
Too Close For Too Long
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CONTEXT: The Training Montage
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clarity
anti-fragility
complexity
action
research
public self-
governance
decision-dynamics
embracing
chaos
structures
& relationships
influence
& options
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▪ Clarity & Complexity Navigation
▪ Memes, Myths & Memetic Warfare
▪ Dynamic Decision-making
3 Themes
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PATTERN: Imagination is a must!!!
no imagination == no options
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CONTEXT:
Hmm we’re
still here
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PATTERN: Scene Setting
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A/C – Aporetic (at a loss) & Confused https://www.cognitive-edge.com/blog/cynefin-st-davids-day-2020-1-of-n/
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Sacrificing self, sacrificing others
Single-issue specialists
The simplicity of the single
a well-intentioned myopia
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Privacy pirates, leeching & looting
Craving confirmation, moments of privacy power
(mis)leads; shallow understanding
Flip-flopping and flitting – a shallow dive for ‘likes’
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Your choice, a choice, who’s choice
Safeguarding or shilling, hard to know
Sleep soundly in the comfort of your single issues
Trade-offs and sacrifice is what we know
Gar Mac Críosta
Perfect Privacy
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PATTERN: Create space for nuanced
conversations
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Pandemic Triad Trade-offs
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CONTEXT: In the thick of it
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EVENT: Contributing to a Global effort
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▪ Unit of activity is work
▪ Unit of progress is a decision
▪ Unit of energy is a meme
▪ Unit of change is a habit
Fundamentals
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PATTERN: Distractions make it hard to be clear,
avoid distractions
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My Teachers & Guides
Damian Griffin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claredillo
n/detail/recent-activity/posts/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/twillough
by/detail/recent-activity/shares/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/damiangr
iffin/detail/recent-activity/shares/ https://www.howtobeclear.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgrevi
lle/detail/recent-activity/shares/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/p
aidioreilly/detail/recent-
activity/posts/
https://www.digitalagearchitects.com/
https://www.blacktulip.se/
https://www.cognitive-edge.com/
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if you want to find me try….
gar@businessmodeladventures.com
@aspiringarc
http://ie.linkedin.com/in/garmaccriosta
Hello, my name is Gar
and I help with
VIPARINAMA DUKKHA
“The anxiety or stress of
trying to hold on to
things that are
constantly changing”
Gar Mac Críosta
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