January 2008 Archives

Doug Cornelius has an interesting take on "Tacit versus Explicit Knowledge." Rather than getting tied up with the form of knowledge, why not help people find it.

A number of friends pointed to 50 reasons not to change and the accompanying graphic from the Biocultural Science & Management Blog.

Lee Lefever has come up with a good post on experts and expertise, particularly as reflected in a place like Wikipedia: "Wikipedia and the Value of No Experts At All."

I was given a complimentary copy of Reaching The Goal: How Managers Improve a Services Business Using Goldratt's Theory of Constraints by John Ricketts. I am always interested in learning how people are applying TOC beyond the manufacturing sector, where it started.

The ARC Advisory Group have developed a concept they call Collaborative Manufacturing Management. I don't see any collaboration in their description. It's integration.

Chris Collison, long-time thinker on the idea of lessons learned, is Taking lessons back to school!

Pick just about any word, and you will find many potential definitions or common usages. Take "collaboration," for example.

Christina Pikas has been live blogging the NC Science Blogging Conference. Interesting stuff.

Art Petty discussing "In support of the Product Manager as MVP."

Q: What’s the easiest way to charge money for software?

Listening to some podcasts on the plane, and I came across the Get-It-Done Guy's rencent entry, "Moments of Truth." I couldn't help hear parallels to Theory of Constraints.

Tom Davenport has an interesting claim and discussion of Why Six Sigma is on the Downslope for business process improvement. He lists five big problems, and then there is the discussion of what to do next.

I attended an interesting webinar this afternoon on Design Thinking by Linda Yaven, Professor at California College of the Arts.

Chris Spagnuolo has an interesting article on multitasking, "The Myth of Managed Multi-tasking," with a great quote from Picasso. I see an interesting link to Theory of Constraints.

Clarke Ching provides a link to an article / review of Tom Kelly's book, Ten Faces of innovation. It's an interesting collection of personnae that are critical to innovation in teams.

We all probably know this, but just because an organization has bought a given methodology, they may not be satisfied with it. Why?

A friend of mine had this interesting suggestion for personal effectiveness in 2008: Use the Covey idea of Four Quadrants of Activity Management on your computer's desktop.

This is my first experience with a GPS - the Garmin model that Avis provides. The interface is fairly intuitive. But at the outset, the unit has its hardest time.