Ten Things That CIOs Can Find Out From Playing Angry Birds

angry birdsDaniel Rasmus has been occupied with deep research on Angry Birds, having become one of the top 300 players on the iPad HD Free version, out of a community of over 1 million players. That may be sad, but then again, it is deep research. Every time he flings an Angry Bird he thinks about a CIO. Here are the initial results of his investigation: Ten lessons from Angry Birds that will make you a better CIO.

  1. You have to play to figure out the rules
  2. People succeed best when their unique talents are recognised
  3. You can’t recover from a really bad start
  4. Different problems require different specialists
  5. Blowing something up isn’t necessarily felt everywhere
  6. Most improvements are incremental
  7. Just because you’ve mastered one task doesn’t make you master of all
  8. You can never do the same thing exactly the same way
  9. Some goals require more birds
  10. There is more than one way to win

Read his full research here.

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