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Category Archives: Systems thinking
Giving Away Your Service for Free on Weekends
Copilot is a cool application that lets you control someone else’s computer. So you can receive technical support remotely. You let someone access your computer and copilot takes care of the sometimes very complex task of linking the two computers … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, IT, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged Creativity, Joel Spolsky, marketing
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Learn from Russel Ackoff
The In Thinking network offers many great ways to learn. This week they have 4 hour long conference call discussions with Russ Ackoff. Thought Pieces (suggested links to review in preparation for the conference call) Lecture on “Systems Practice” at … Continue reading
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Creating Jobs
Do Lean Companies Create Fewer Jobs? No, they create more. If you assume the lean company grows sales at the same rate as some poorly management company then it may well be that the lean company creates fewer jobs. However … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Deming, Economics, Lean thinking, Management, Popular, Systems thinking
Tagged Deming, economy, jobs, lean manufacturing, Manufacturing
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Prediction Markets with Google Employees
Another interesting experiment from Google: Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google In Google’s terminology, a market asks a question (e.g., “how many users will Gmail have?”) that has 2”5 possible mutually exclusive and completely exhaustive answers … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Data, Economics, Google, Psychology, Statistics, Systems thinking
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Stratification and Systemic Thinking
I am reading a fascinating book by Jessica Snyder Sachs: Good Germs, Bad Germs. From page 108: At New York Hospital, Eichenwald and infectious disease specialist Henry Shinefield conceived and developed a controversial program that entailed deliberately inoculating a newborn’s … Continue reading
Communicating Change
Response to: Sales Compensation Plan Changes [the broken link has been removed] I believe the best way to communicate such changes is to explain how they tie into the long term vision of the organization. This requires that such a … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged change, communication, management, purpose, Systems thinking
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Dr. Deming 4 Day Seminar
The W. Edwards Deming Institute is sponsoring a 4 day seminar using videos of Dr. Deming’s seminars and facilitated by Ed Baker, Dave Nave, and Joyce Orsini: Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position. Ed Baker was the person at Ford responsible … Continue reading
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Engineering Innovation for Manufacturing and the Economy
Editorial: Engineering Innovation, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: They are the invisible heroes in business, the men and women who make innovation possible. They are people like Mary Ann Wright at Johnson Controls in Milwaukee, the former chief engineer for the Ford … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Lean thinking, Management, Manufacturing, Public Sector, Science, Systems thinking
Tagged Economics, engineering, Manufacturing, Wisconsin
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The Problem with Targets
Targets can seriously damage your health by Simon Caulkin Targets, claim their defenders, are simple, they provide focus, and they work. Yes, they do. Unfortunately, these are also their fatal flaws. The simplicity is a delusion. As Russ Ackoff put … Continue reading
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The Lazy Unreasonable Man
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman That quote sprang to mind … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Management, Psychology, quote, Systems thinking
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