Feedback Loops
Reflect (Hansei). Regular Portfolio Syncs and Inspect and Adapt sessions use feedback to improve flow and outcomes.
- Feedback loop delays can increase the cost of learning, as slow or infrequent reviews mean teams may continue investing in ineffective solutions before discovering misalignments.
- If feedback mechanisms require excessive manual effort or have unclear ownership, the resulting inefficiency can drive up operational costs and reduce portfolio agility.
- Lack of automated feedback on project outcomes can lead to increased rework costs, as issues are only discovered late in the lifecycle instead of being caught and corrected early.
- Feedback from Sentiment Analysis is terrific in these days of AI. Sentiment analysis is the process of analyzing digital text to determine if the emotional tone of the message is positive, negative, or neutral. Sentiment Analysis systems help companies better understand their customers, deliver stronger customer experiences, and improve their brand reputation.
Bats use echolocation to fly within a dark cave… using feedback from the sound they emit, bouncing off from the walls of the cave.
Sonar is the same. Sonar was invented after the Titanic sunk; someone thought of a way so that there is no repeat of a Titanic catastrophe… like a sound sent and bouncing off from the iceberg.
