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Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of

Thomke, Stefan H. Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.

Why this matters here

Thomke’s Experimentation Works argues that business experiments teach when they discriminate among hypotheses—with explicit assumptions, observables, and decision thresholds—not when they merely generate activity. How Serious Systems Learn extends that to probe design: inferential power under bounded risk, not symbolic delay or political cover dressed as learning.