Intelligence under scarcity produces more than business. It produces the conditions under which strategizing becomes not a professional competence, but a structural necessity.

The people who should be developing strategic thinking — in others and in themselves — are losing ground to AI. A new strategy framework, grounded in complexity science and built on two first-principles theories, identifies five levels at which strategic thinking operates — and gives that work a unified structure for the first time.

Can you tell if an example or story is friend or foe? In business, especially, whether in an educational or professional setting, can you tell if and how an example or story is nudging you toward or away from a certain understanding of the underlying dynamics of the matter at hand? In the age of generative AI, the "example dilemma" becomes even more important.

Bringing products to market is every company’s top job in the long run. No customers, no business. Fittingly, then, as product life cycles grew increasingly shorter over the past few decades, mostly driven by technology, the corporate function of Product Marketing emerged to enable companies to become more effective and efficient in their go-to-market efforts.

The debate about the reasoning capabilities of the major AI products on the market has been a hot topic over the past few months. With the opposing parties' underlying interests often left unmentioned, studies pointing one way or the other come out at a seemingly-increasing rate. For those interested in a more deductive approach to this discussion — relying less on studies, of which objectivity and robustness can be difficult to gauge — the paper model A Simple Block of Needs™ can be a powerfully-efficient tool.

Assemble the cut-and-fold 3D model A Simple Block of Needs™ to instantly acquire a new, powerful understanding of how needs are naturally structured, underlying the behavior of people, products, companies, and economies. A minimalist embodiment of Cristian Mitreanu’s one-need theory of behavior, the Block offers a robust foundation for efficient and consistent decision-making in both your personal and professional lives, in the context of people and technology.

BizBigPic™ — a course providing young learners with a unified 'business big picture' understanding to power their future — aims to do just that. Evolving from its latest derivations as Cristian Mitreanu's recent Stanford Continuing Studies courses BUS 93 Corporate Strategy at Scale: Emerging Thinking on How Companies and Economies Evolve and BUS 284 Create Better Product Stories Using Deep Customer Insights, "the business big picture course" is currently in development and will be available soon.

Ofmos Universe provides the Big Picture foundational layer for a more accessible and meaningful business education, also shining new light on some popular ideas. In spirit of Richard Feynman's “every theoretical physicist that's any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics," let's zoom in on the concept of disruptive innovation.

Highlighting the blog posts The 3D Product Model Canvas: Thinking and Strategizing in Volumes, Software Products and the Concept of Platform, and A Need-Based Perspective on Increasing Returns. Also announcing Cristian Mitreanu’s new Stanford Continuing Studies course Create Better Product Stories Using Deep Customer Insights.

By explaining companies and economies as complex systems of unique business worlds called ofmos (offering-market cosmos), we provide a language of the big picture. With that, the simulation game OFMOS offers an "orrery of business" that could significantly impact learning, just like the actual orreries did.

What do you get if you throw a chess set, Monopoly, and a corporate strategy book into a blender? Why, Ofmos, of course. ;-) ... But forget about all that business stuff. On a hot summer day, Ofmos can be a lot of fun — an abstract strategy game with simple rules and interesting emerging complications.

We strive for deeper insights into how companies and economies work so that we can more meaningfully act upon them. The Ofmos lens — seeing companies and economies as complex systems of irreducible virtual business worlds called ofmos (offering-market cosmos) — gives us a better understanding at scale, where the information that matters most is.

University of Southern California Center EDGE (Center for Engagement-Driven Global Education), Andrew Nikou Foundation, and IDEO asks: How might we strengthen school communities, as sites reopen, by highlighting solutions that reconnect people and enhance collective wellbeing, teaching, and learning? And our answer is... Ofmos: Play, Learn, and Succeed with the Business Big Picture Game.

Championed by strategy consultancies like BCG and McKinsey, portfolio analysis became the corporate strategy approach of choice in the seventies. Now, decades later, with significant advances in big data and AI (and a new mindset), we will be increasingly able to understand and manage companies and economies as complex systems.

The overarching need successful existence is constantly being (dis)aggregated by the intelligent mind. As needs drive actions, this novel way of understanding the triggers of human behavior brings valuable new insights and applications to the table — whether one is trying to articulate a customer job-to-be-done…

The Ofmos model makes business learning (a) more meaningful by providing a knowledge umbrella, and (b) more accessible by providing a learning scaffolding. Yet its usefulness goes deeper, when we consider what P.W. Anderson called "broken symmetry"…