Let’s start with the obvious: business process redesign, process engineering and business transformation all strive to affect an organization’s bottom line. Companies like Motorola, USAA and Toyota have reaped substantial benefits from these endeavors resulting in disciplines like Six Sigma, Lean and World-class alignment being commonly recognized as best practices across industries. And yet, so
Read More...One of my favorite bloggers, behavioral economist Tyler Cowen, gets profiled (probably much to his chagrin) in the Washington Post. John Gruber with Apple-Verizon Political Calculus, 2010 Edition. Facebook privacy: A bewildering tangle of options. The Chronicle’s Melvin Konner on how childhood has evolved. Law and Order: the doink doink sound. Bill Watterson’s letter announcing
Read More...Manufacturing Software Advice has a very good two-part expert roundtable discussion of the 2010 state of the industry for manufacturing software. Part one reports buying activity, spending patterns by business size/industry, and primary drivers of current buying activity. Part two, published just last week, reviews activity in the SaaS market, how vendors are adjusting prices
Read More...I won’t bore you with any editorial today and instead will let you get busy clicking on this week’s astonishing collection of afternoon reading material: A lost 1996 profile of David Foster Wallace from Details magazine. If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know I’m a huge DFW wonk. Sue
Read More...Tim O’Reilly is one of the people who inspired me to write for several blogs and proffer analysis and commentary to an unsuspecting public. The CEO of O’Reilly Media, a $100M company and growing, O’Reilly is a guy who’s completely devoid of pretense. He’s not playing the game for anyone other than his own passions,
Read More...Merlin Mann, blogger-cum-hesitant-guru on productivity, workflow and the modern attention economy, recently was asked to give a talk at Rutgers University. His talk wound up being experimental — in Mann’s own words, he just riffed — but nonetheless it was fantastic. You can see it standalone here. (If you know Mann, you know this is
Read More...I teach the way that I wish I was taught. —Sal Khan, Khan Academy (Via SvN)
Read More...This week’s delivery from the link stork: The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart puts the entire lost iPhone/Gizmodo thing in perspective. Regardless of your stance on Apple, Stewart makes some good points. Absolutely perfect — and I mean perfect — viral video for Lots-o’-Huggin Bear, one of the new characters in Disney/Pixar’s upcoming Toy Story 3.
Read More...This week’s fresh, dolphin-safe bounty of fine web treasures: Here’s a TED talk of skeptic James Randi denouncing psychic fraud and irrational beliefs. Lots of snake oil out there, even with knowing what we know. Facebook made massive announcements at this year’s f8 conference. Nutshell: they’re going to own the web and make the entire
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