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Ambidexterity

Two measures of the same subject side by side: what the portfolio declares and what the logged hours show. When the two disagree, the hours are right.

🕒 Updated on Aug 31, 2026📖 ~2 min read

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A portrait of the screen, read from the screen itself — it changes when the screen changes.

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Explore declarado (portfólio)Percentual do portfólio que a empresa declara como explore, ou seja, desbravar o amanhã.
Itens em exploreQuantos itens do portfólio estão classificados como explore.
Itens em exploitQuantos itens do portfólio estão classificados como exploit, sustentar o hoje.
Itens sem classificarQuantos itens do portfólio ainda não tem lado definido e ficam fora das duas contas.
Explore medido (hora apontada)Percentual das horas realmente apontadas que foram para itens de explore na janela escolhida.
Janela em mesesJanela em meses usada para medir as horas apontadas: 3, 6 ou 12 meses.
Indicadores de inovaçãoQuantos indicadores estrategicos medem o que está sendo construído para o futuro.
Horas em exploreTotal de horas apontadas em projetos e demandas classificados como explore na janela.
Horas em exploitTotal de horas apontadas em projetos e demandas classificados como exploit na janela.
Horas em projeto sem classificaçãoHoras apontadas em itens sem lado definido, que não entram em nenhum dos dois percentuais.
Explore por pessoaPercentual das horas de cada pessoa que foi para explore na janela medida.
Portfólio por horizonteQuantos itens do portfólio estão em cada horizonte: H1 hoje, H2 nascendo, H3 aposta futura.

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What it is for
Answer with a number the question "who is building our future?". Exploit is sustaining and improving what already pays the bills; explore is breaking ground on what will pay later. A company that only exploits is efficient until the market turns; one that only explores does not survive next month.

Rules

Declarado × medido
The declared percentage comes from the classification of projects, products and ideas. The measured one comes from actual time entries, by the project side the hour was posted to. It is the second that cannot be dressed up — if the portfolio says 30% and the hours say 4%, the intention is on paper and the time is still in today's business.
Item sem classificação fica de fora dos dois lados
On purpose. Marking everything that has not been classified as exploit would make the screen start out lying that the whole company has already been analyzed. The classification queue appears on the screen itself, with one click per item.
O alerta de métrica errada
If there is explore effort but no innovation indicator registered, that team is being measured by today's business yardstick — margin, deadline, utilization — which is exactly the yardstick an experiment cannot meet. Measuring explore with exploit metrics kills innovation without anyone having to decide to kill it.

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The horizons
H1 is today's business, H2 is what is emerging and already has customers, H3 is the bet whose return is still uncertain. They show whether the company is building something for after next year — or only for the next quarter.
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