We help enterprise, fintech and legacy companies reduce costs and unlock innovation though contextual market research, narrow automation and organizational design.

1. Lean AI
Automate routine, make space to innovate
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2. What is Lean AI?
• Current technology stacks are getting more and more
powerful – there is a lot more we can do with legacy
software and data
• We’re thinking about a new perspective that affects
the entire operation - from data to machine to people
and delivers more value from your existing systems
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3. What is the narrowest
task you can automate?
Consider
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4. First, data
It’s not only 1’s and 0’s
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5. Data are facts, such as names or numbers. If sensors
are collecting these, there are electronic impulses
when something happens when something moves.
Information is slightly different in that it
combines various data to say something
that the data alone can’t say. For
instance, data on our spending habits
tell us about our financial behavior and
about our patterns of expenditures–that
is information, not just groups of
unrelated numbers.
Source: Information and the Modern Corporation, James W Cortada, MIT Press
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6. Knowledge is more complicated than data or
information because it combines data,
information and experiences from logically
connected groups of facts (such as budget
data from a department) with things that
have no direction or obvious connections
(such as previous jobs and experiences).
Then there is wisdom: the
ability to make sense of data,
information, and knowledge
in ways that are relevant to
the organization.
Source: Information and the Modern Corporation, James W Cortada, MIT Press
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7. Data
Information
Knowledge
Wisdom
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ThickThin
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8. Data Utility
• An organization is a technological system comprised
of hardware, software and people
• What can be done to improve data utility?
• Creating thicker data will improve an organization’s
data utility: and create exponential marginal
utility for better decision making, productivity and
faster innovation cycles
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9. VV6 Philosophie
research, strategy, writing product workshops, prototyping
Kernel
Writing a plan
for what is ahead
Analog p/t
system thinking
hopefully with leadership
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10. VV6 Philosophie
research, strategy, writing product workshop, prototyping
Hypothesis &
Human-Machine
System Design
Digital Prototyping
Contextual &
proprietary I.P.
Org’ Design & More
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11. VV6 Philosphie
research, strategy, writing product workshop, prototyping
Contextual &
proprietary I.P.
Org’ Design & More
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12. Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig & Ben Pring.
“What to Do When Machines Do Everything.”
“We think your baseline expectation should be cost
reductions of 25%, with an associated productivity
increase of 25%. Based on where the current average
is today (around 15%), and the productivity
improvement seen by some solutions (up to 90%),
this should be your achievable near-term rule of
thumb for initial robotic process automation efforts.”
The 25% - 25% Rule
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13. Philosophie is an agile product
consultancy with offices in LA,
New York, San Francisco and
Seattle
Philosophie
VV6 is a New York based
innovation consultancy and
research studio operating
between academia
and industry.
VV6
We have worked together on a number of projects
and are excited to share more about this unique and
proprietary new offering.
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