My name is Oluwakorede Asuni – most people call me Olu’ and you may as well.
I work at the intersection of technology and society – helping businesses, non-profits and individuals craft and evolve their technology adoption (aka digital transformation) strategies.
For most of my career, I have worn multiple hats ranging from product manager, project/programme manager, business analyst and customer advocate.
I write regularly here, on facebook, twitter and on some of the most popular business analysis platforms out there.
I hold the IIBA CBAP, IIBA CPOA, PMI PMP and ITIL Foundation, credentials. And I recently completed an executive MBA at the University of Readings’ Henley Business School– where I my research explored Gamification for customer acquisition and retention in SMEs.
I publish a newsletter fortnightly, in which I explore thoughts, theories and developments across digital.
In this short video I go over questions as:
What are the factors you should consider in deciding whether or not to get a business analysis certification?
What certifications are fit for you, depending on factors like, your objectives, your career path to this point, your plans for the future.
Who are business analysts and what do they do? What are the tools of their trade?
Where do they work?
And how do you get started as a business analyst?
I attempt answers to some of these questions in this video.
Can strict waterfall co-habit with agile? For example, can a business with legacy processes transform or begin to transform to one that is responsive to the rapidly changing demands of the market?
If yes, what are the thoughts and principles that we need to embrace.
In this article, I explore why and how this is possible.
But if the question is expanded to all other things we crave, need or want — power, money, status, material goods — do we then truly know when we are hungry?
The Octalysis framework is perhaps the most complete framework for grounding gamification design efforts in reality. In this paper, I present the framework and opine on options for leveraging each element of the framework to design a gamified experience for businesses. Download or read it here (Research Gate): https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.33655.38562
Yesterday, I told the barista politely that I am going to do something about our trade deficit. The back story: I buy coffee from her, and she buys nothing from me. That’s not fair. That’s cheating. That’s abuse! I tabulated the numbers and showed the result to her. I stared at her in ‘ancestral’ disgust and she arrogantly stared back in ‘Gen Z bemusement’ – as if to say: ‘this makes no sense, none at all. I told her, to her face that her café has been very mean to me. Very mean. They have been abusing me for so long. I mean I buy a lot of things on their menu and I even know their off menu items by heart. On some days just my regular double espresso. On some others, a double espresso and whatever my guests want to drink. Yet, on some other days, I add
If you’ve ever wished for a tool that could cut through the chaos and help you focus on what really matters—understanding and applying the information—you’re not alone. That’s where NotebookLM steps in.
Do we do work for the sake of it and its direct benefits (ability to buy things and by a stretch the ability to create wealth) or as a means to live a fulfilled life (where each is free to define fulfilment)? A position I might have maintained given “my confusion” is to maintain a hybrid view of work. I seize or attempt to seize every opportunity to create something that brings me fulfilment (I have been known to go as far as crossing boundaries of organisational hierarchy to get stuff done and apologise afterwards rather than wait endlessly for permission) and sometimes, too, I simply toe the line – in the hope that something great emerges – especially one that does emerge despite our efforts to the contrary.
Here are three reasons, I am not bothered, two things I am doing to further ensure I do not develop any anxiety (and that you should consider as well), and one potentially irrefutable truth
The dust-up began with concerns about content access.
The revised wording seemed to grant Adobe expansive rights to peek into users’ creative treasure chests. Creatives worried that their precious work could be used for purposes far beyond what Adobe initially explained. Was this a prelude to a future where Adobe could pilfer their ideas and content to fuel their fancy new AI art tools and definitively replace creatives? The lack of clarity fueled the fire.
Misleading people in the name of opinion is unethical and should be avoided at all cost. If you feel strongly about an opinion, test it out within safety and ethical boundaries.
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