The Optimality Of Purpose - Aditya Yadav

1. “Running an Agile Fortune 500 Company”
Aditya Yadav, aditya.yadav@gmail.com
http://www.adityayadav.com
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2. *
*A Typical Global Company
*Fortune 500/1000
*200 Divisions
*40 Countries
*25000 Employees

3. @ Acme Inc.
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4. *
*Original Question “How do we achieve Super
Optimality?”
*The Correct Question - “We will need to start
with Rationality and build upon it with
Empirical Results of Optimality Studies to
arrive at the answer… Lets find out what that
is!!!”

5. And The Philosophy Behind The Answer
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Rationality
(Reasoned
& Optimal)
Data/Info/Knowledge
Model/Techniques
Context/Purpose

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*The naïve conclusion is that… to achieve rationality
(including super optimality) we will have to infinitely
maximise all three
* Data/info/knowledge
* Models/techniques
* Purpose
*But empirically that’s not true…
* Not does just the Law of Diminishing Returns kicks in
* It also reverse minimizes the need of others when you
maximise one
*This basically gives us 3 Prime options to achieve
Super Optimality (see next 3 slides)

8. *
*Empirically
*If you increasingly maximise
Data/Information/Knowledge
*You need lesser and lesser of Models/Techniques &
Purpose
*This basically means if you study the entire
population extensively, you don’t need extremely
elaborate techniques and the simplest of purpose to
take optimal decisions and create an impact
*This has been extensively and sufficiently proved
with Big Data

9. *
* Empirically
* If you increasingly maximise Techniques
* You need lesser and lesser of Data/Information/Knowledge & Purpose
* This basically means that when you have very less
data/information/knowledge you develop more and more elaborate
techniques without any context of Purpose
* So you make excessive techniques for any purpose you can possibly
anticipate, and with very little data at your disposal to take optimal
decisions
* This is how traditionally the scientific community progressed till
now…
* With very little knowledge of the universe around us to start with we
developed and used extremely sophisticated techniques and
unravelled the world one step at a time.
* Again this has been proven enough over the last 1000 or so years.

10. *
* Empirically
* If you increasingly maximise Purpose
* You need lesser and lesser of Models/Techniques &
Data/Information/Knowledge
* There have been situations including where we don’t know why we
exist, or had any data or techniques at our disposal…
* We found purpose and used very little data and techniques to
achieve super optimality in decisions.
* This is the area which forms the new age… within those domains
where lots of data and techniques exist and we still need further
super optimality
* Or within domains where the data and techniques absolutely don’t
exist and we need super optimality
* When the Purpose is absolutely absolutely clear the choices and
decisions are Trivial!!!

11. *
* So the obvious question is which of the 3 Prime’s is the most super
optimal?
* The empirical results are actually not very contrarian… and they start like
this…
* There is a limit to data that we can have at our disposal…
* There is also a very strong limit to what models and techniques we can
develop and deploy
* But… But… But… there is actually no inherent limit to any Purpose we can
conceive and adopt for ourselves…
* And purpose derives from our Discretion which makes us very Powerful
(Ref: The Power Play Deck)
* Conclusion: The Purpose Prime Super Optimality is the best of any kind of
super optimality…
* And Purpose Prime Super Optimality is limited only by our Imagination and
Discretion (And temporally by the world resources and consensus)

12. *
*Purpose is Super Optimal!!!
*At any level – Individual, teams/groups,
society, countries/governments, or globally
MTV Enjoy!

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Aditya!!!