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econ.GN2022
How to Solve Big Problems: Bespoke Versus Platform Strategies
Atif Ansar, Bent Flyvbjerg
How should government and business solve big problems? In bold leaps or in many smaller moves? We show that bespoke, one-off projects are prone to poorer outcomes than projects bui…
econ.GN2016★ 5 cited
Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale
Atif Ansar, Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier +1
In this paper we characterise the propensity of big capital investments to systematically deliver poor outcomes as "fragility," a notion suggested by Nassim Taleb. A thing or syste…