Category: Unintended Consequences

We started exploring the implications of this Pizza Vending machine five years ago. We used this several times as a key demonstration exploration in facilitator training. An updated search on ...

The Implications Wheel promotes "divergent" thinking while the Strategy Matrix is designed for "convergent" thinking. This article documents the importance of knowing the differences. Article Link ...

A good article except for the final statement, the implied conclusion that unintended consequences can only be identified in hindsight. The Implications Wheel has demonstrated consistently that it's possible to ...

Management is a lens. It’s the best way yet invented to focus the organization’s capital, human, and time resources toward the goals of the business. Many have observed that companies ...

Most people are uncomfortable with data.  Estimates, analytics, and data-driven predictions — they can all be confusing and overwhelming. Some of this discomfort is based on experience. Everyone remembers a ...

What an intro: Unintended consequences (or, unanticipated, unforeseen, unplanned… consequences) are outcomes that are not intended by a purposeful action, i.e., intended actions that are taken for a completely positive purpose… but have negative ...

“Like all new tools, Big Data carries the potential for unintended consequences." Prompted by the above quote, this article, authored by Jim Schreier, includes a segment from an exploration on ...

The concept “unanticipated consequences,” coined by Robert K. Merton (), has largely been replaced in current social science by its putative synonym, “unintended consequences.” This conflation suggests that “unintended” consequences ...

What will it take to shift markets and companies away from a short-term way of thinking? Article Link ...

The "incomparable" Maggie Smith: "What happens then?" ...