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Tag Archives: IT
Customer Focus and Internet Travel Search
The internet should make finding airline flight information easy. Instead it is a huge pain. Hipmunk has taken on the challenge of doing this well, and I think they have done a great job. This video provides an excellent view … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Customer focus, Innovation, IT, Management, Process improvement
Tagged Creativity, Customer focus, Innovation, internet, IT, travel, usability, webcast
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Is Google Failing Too Often?
I think Google is extremely successful, but they do seem to consistently have problems adding to their portfolio. They did a great job with gmail. Android has been very successful. Google Maps is great. They did well building YouTube. Chrome … Continue reading
Net Neutrality, Policy, Economics and Intelligent Engineering
I believe net neutrality should be championed to prevent decay of the usability of the internet. It seems to me internet connectivity is a natural monopoly that economic theory says should be a regulated monopoly. Smart countries have invested in … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Google, Innovation, IT
Tagged commentary, Economics, economy, engineering, internet, IT
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Toyota’s Journey to Lean Software Development
Toyota’s journey from Waterfall to Lean software development by Henrik Kniberg Toyota builds cars (duh). In the past that didn’t involve much software, and the little software that was needed was mostly developed by suppliers and embedded in isolated components. … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, IT, Lean thinking, Management, Quality tools, Software Development, Toyota Production System (TPS)
Tagged agile management, IT, Japan, Lean thinking, Software Development, Toyota, Toyota Production System (TPS)
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Eric Schmidt on Google in 2010 and the Economy
CEO Eric Schmidt Reveals ‘Centerpiece’ Of Google’s 2010 Strategy, speaking at the White House jobs summit. Google is definitely hiring. “We’re hiring a couple thousand people over the next year,” he said. And looking at the White House summit he … Continue reading
Statistical Learning as the Ultimate Agile Development Tool by Peter Norvig
Interesting lecture on Statistical Learning as the Ultimate Agile Development Tool by Peter Norvig. The webcast is likely to be of interest to a fairly small segment of readers of this blog. But for geeks it may be interesting. He … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Software Development, Statistics
Tagged complexity, Google, IT, lecture, Software Development, Statistics, webcast
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Understanding How to Manage Geeks
The unspoken truth about managing geeks [the broken link was removed] by Jeff Ello IT pros are sensitive to logic — that’s what you pay them for. When things don’t add up, they are prone to express their opinions on … Continue reading
Posted in IT, Management, Psychology, Respect, Software Development
Tagged IT, managing people, programming, Psychology, respect for people, Software Development
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Don’t Hide Problems in Computers
Making things visible is a key to effective management. And data in computers can be easy to ignore. Don’t forget to make data visible. Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston recently hosted Hideshi Yokoi, president … Continue reading
Three Years of Real-World IT Projects In Ruby
Nice webcast by Martin Fowler, Three Years of Real-World Ruby. This talk is probably only of interest to those of you in software development, but for them I think it is an excellent presentation. At work we have been use … Continue reading
Posted in IT, Software Development, webcast
Tagged IT, program management, programming, project management, Ruby, Software Development, webcast
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Involve IT Staff in Business Process Improvement
I started out basically working on management improvement from the start of my career. My makeup (I am never satisfied and figure things should always be better) along with a few traits, experiences and probably even genes made this a … Continue reading →