Christian Madsbjerg talks to J. Massey on the Cash Flow Diary podcast. The episode goes deep into understanding customers as people instead of just abstractions and how to make better business decisions.
Read MoreChristian Madsbjerg discusses the ideas behind his book, “Sensemaking: The Power of Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm”.
Read MoreBanks frequently lament their inability to deepen connections with their consumer, but in order to do that they will have to transform their relationship with the world as a whole.
Read MoreChristian Madsbjerg gives examples of data's use and abuse in a recent conversation with Alastair Dryburgh.
Read MoreChristian Madsbjerg talks about the impact it has, when CEOs observe and listen to their customers as fellow human beings, and provides advice for how entrepreneurs can utilize the thinking behind Sensemaking to improve their own business.
Read MoreChristian Madsbjerg talks about the role of design, the dangers of relying on focus groups and how anthropology is the most brutal cost reduction tool in the world.
Read MoreWould you use a driverless car if your chauffeur was your status symbol? Tech’s unspoken hurdles
Read MoreMadsbjerg argues that unless companies take pains to understand the human beings represented in their data sets, they risk losing touch with the markets they’re serving.
Read MoreChristian Madsbjerg speaks to Manuela Saragos about why human intelligence is still a vital component in analysing all our data.
Read MoreDemetri Kofinas speaks with Christian Madsbjerg about the history of western philosophy, artificial intelligence, and how the humanities can help businesses solve their hardest problems.
Read More"We need people who can develop medicine, and we need the people who can figure out how to get people to take their medicine. We need both” - Madsbjerg on NPR's The Takeaway.
Read MoreData is important, but with Madsbjerg’s approach to sensemaking, we have a better chance of putting it in the proper context and using it to enrich our lives and our understanding.
Read MoreWhen you rely on algorithms for everything from your commute to work to your lunch order, Sensemaking suggests, you aren’t just altering the way you do things. You are changing the very filter through which you view reality.
Read MoreIn his article "The Right Bedside Novel Could Do Wonders For Your Career," George Anders discusses Christian Madsbjerg's new book "Sensemaking."
Read MoreChristian Madsbjerg discusses Sensemaking and Big Data in this segment of The Economist Radio.
Read MoreThere's a cultural bias in business, tech and otherwise, against any information that can't be quantified—that is "soft," subjective, fuzzy. [...] But it is where good ideas come from—and while the data it relies on may not be reducible to numbers, there is actually nothing "fuzzy" about it.
Read MoreThe best CEOs can read a novel and a spreadsheet, Madsbjerg writes, while his overarching message is that we should not forget that companies are made up of people and their customers are people, too.
Read MoreDon’t tell the true believers in silicon valley, but there’s an art as well as science to business.
Read MoreWhat Silicon Valley is missing is an understanding of people—what is meaningful to them, the way they live their day to day lives, what would make a difference for them on an ordinary Tuesday in Phoenix or Shanghai. There is a dearth of deep, nuanced cultural knowledge in tech. Luckily, there is an app for that: reading.
Read More