Fabulous, thank you so very much. 1,001 responses to the survey. This is wonderful. Now, to run the tests and find out whether the hypothesis is wrong or right. Before I run the test (it'll take hours to build what I need), I suppose I better say what I am looking for ...
... the hypothesis is that within the sample there are two distinct populations - a traditional and a next generation - along with a majority that are "in between". Due to bias in sampling (i.e. my tweet streams) then the Next Gen is likely to be much more represented ..
... than the Traditional but that's ok, we're are looking for a phenotypic difference in the populations. The reason for cast the net wide is that hopefully we may catch 20+ of both. As I said, the vast majority will be "in between" ...
... the key questions for identifying the populations were 5 and 1. Those who are strongly procedure based and believe the future is more office first go into TRAD, those who are strongly principle based and focused on remote first going into Next Gen ...
... these questions were built through a long process of interviews, discussions and an entire research process. But, what I'm looking for specfically is significant differences in those populations on ...
... leadership, outcome vs output, top down vs swarming, the importance or not of hierarchy and levels of situational awareness in the wider group. These have been the key phenotypic differences in discussions, the others I'm less convinced of. Anyway, now I get to find out ...
... so, for now the survey is stopped. Time to go look at the data and test the hypothesis ... I have this feeling of both elation and dread to arrive at this point. I sort of love and hate this moment ... I think I'll start with a cup of tea.
Anyway, thank you to everyone.
Anyway, thank you to everyone.
So, a couple of people have asked if I can keep the survey going. Sure, if you find it useful for other purposes.
I've taken a snapshot of the data at 1,001 people, so everything beyond this will be ignored. If you find it useful then please feel free to use it.
I've taken a snapshot of the data at 1,001 people, so everything beyond this will be ignored. If you find it useful then please feel free to use it.
Ok, first up ... 31 of 1001 divide into the Traditional Group, 92 of the 1001 divide into the Next Group ... that was higher than I expected. Still, gives me more to work on.
Ok, t-tests all done ... we have significance across multiple characteristics - leadership, top down vs swarming, outcome vs ouput, importance of hiearchy plus also some surprising ones - marketing as a justification rather than alternative views, sustainability, external comms
Ok, so I'm now feeling the hypothesis is somewhat sound, there are distinct populations ... of course, need to start graphing this up to see where we're at ... another of cup of tea needed. At least I don't have to go the old "yep, sorry, nothing there path" again.
After this, I need to go check the entire population ... see if the rest fit between these extremes ... of course, the hypothesis is not out of the woods yet.
Ok, these are starting to look interesting ... 
Or, for example ...
Do remember, the background (i.e. the wider) is heavily biased by selection (my twitter feed) and so what you need to look at are the population Trad vs Next Gen that are separated by those questions of Principle vs Process AND Remote vs Office first i.e. this is what matters ...
... by simply answering those questions on principle vs process AND office first vs remote first then I can tell you quite a lot about the company including, it seems, how you feel about the future.
Whoops, first error of the day. Let us repeat that.
X : Isn't this a big company vs small company thing?
Me : Well, if you filter for companies over 1,000 employees in size then ... no, it's not.
X : Isn't this a big company vs small company thing?
Me : Well, if you filter for companies over 1,000 employees in size then ... no, it's not.
In fact, the large companies (>1,000 employees) in the Next Generation bucket appear more positive about the future than the small companies. Go figure.
However, I'm here to test one thing ... the hypothesis that we have seperate populations - a next gen and a traditional - if you want to look for other correlations - size of company, age etc then you'll need to create a hypothesis, build a survey to test it and then go test it.
OK, just over 10 years ago I published this Traditional vs Next Generation table and said that over a decade that companies would become more Next Gen ... most companies were influx between the two ...
... of course, back them I had many tell me that it was a lot of nonsense ... chaos engines, continuous deployment, commodity infrastructure ... ha! "That was for startups" ... was the common line I heard.
Ok, so let us do this again. I'll need to tidy it up a bit but ...
Ok, so let us do this again. I'll need to tidy it up a bit but ...
... here is your traditional vs next generation table for the next decade. Most of you will already be somewhere between the two.
And yes, I'm aware some companies haven't even done the last lot ... they are just falling further and further behind.
X : Not sure I understand that table.
Me : OK. Take a group of companies are asked them two questions ...
a) Is work more driven by procedures or guiding principles?
b) Is the future of work more office based or remote?
... then subdivide as follows
Me : OK. Take a group of companies are asked them two questions ...
a) Is work more driven by procedures or guiding principles?
b) Is the future of work more office based or remote?
... then subdivide as follows
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