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How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything in Between

How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything in Between

“This book is important, timely, instructive and entertaining. What more could you ask for?” – Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics

2023

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May 28, 2021

Regression to the Tail Vs. Regression to the Mean*

A worse pandemic and more extreme climate will hit us. What are the basic principles for navigating this, for government, business, and the…

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Jun 28, 2024

Paris 2024: A Less Expensive Games?

With a cost of USD 8.7 billion and a cost overrun of 115%, is Paris 2024 living up to IOC policy for a cheaper Games, so more cities will…

Paris 2024: A Less Expensive Games?

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Oct 20, 2022

SpaceX vs. NASA: Speed-to-Market

NASA is clearly slower to market and to iterate than SpaceX.

SpaceX vs. NASA: Speed-to-Market

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Sep 4, 2022

How to Kill with a Handshake: My Favorite Boris Johnson Story

Now that Boris Johnson is leaving office it’s time to think back and find our favorite stories from his premiership. Here’s mine. What’s…

How to Kill with a Handshake: My Favorite Boris Johnson Story

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Aug 1, 2022

SpaceX vs. NASA: Project Delivery

Elon Musk decided long ago that he cannot afford long projects and therefore also cannot afford to use conventional design and delivery…

SpaceX vs. NASA: Project Delivery

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Jul 29, 2022

SpaceX vs. NASA: Scalability

SpaceX is fast, cheap, and scalable. NASA is slow, expensive, and bespoke.

SpaceX vs. NASA: Scalability

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Jul 26, 2022

Forced and Fumbled Scale-Up

Dumb scale-up is bad. Forced scale-up is worse because it wastes resources faster. Fumble scale-up, and you die.

Forced and Fumbled Scale-Up

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Jun 13, 2022

SpaceX vs. NASA: Cost

SpaceX is 10X cheaper with 30X lower cost overrun than NASA in lifting payload into space. Why? Because SpaceX is platform-based, NASA not.

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Jun 11, 2022

Platform Economics

Platforms make services faster, better, cheaper, and more omnipresent. Platforms are based on modularity and are the antithesis to big…

Platform Economics

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Jun 9, 2022

Theories of Big

How does one best deliver big, ambitious projects in business and government?

Theories of Big

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Professor Emeritus, Oxford University; Senior Research Fellow, St Anne's College, Oxford University. https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyvbjerg/

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