June 2008 Archives

Eli Goldratt is in the process of writing another book, this one entitled Inherent Simplicity. Rather than a fiction, it is a monograph set up as a (fictional) discussion between Goldratt and his daughter, Efrat.

Goldratt Consulting have created a place to share a variety of videos that relate to Theory of Constraints, from Eli Goldratt talking about various aspects of the TOC concepts to other demonstrations of successful implementations of the principles.

My friend, Lilia Efimova is wrapping up her PhD thesis work on the subject of blogging and has a nice summary of a number of "Reasons for using weblog to keep information bits."

It's a familiar refrain, once you get into the business world far enough. "Don't conufse technology with business solutions, focusing instead on what users value most - information."

A friend forwarded an interesting quote from the Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living. They key line for me was, "We often forget that the action we are contemplating contains the seed of its result."

Imagine my surprise to see Andrew McAfee mention the newly-formed IORG - Information Overload Research Group.

I sat in on a Catalyze Community webinar today, given by Carey Schwaber, a Sr. Analyst at Forrester Research. The topic was "Ten Tips for Driving Better Project Outcomes" and was directed at the Business Analyst role.

The Enterprise 2.0 conference was in Boston again this year. Here are some of my thoughts and impressions as a hallway attendee.

Tony Karrer and Michele Martin are pleased to announce the founding of Work Literacy.

In a set of planning meetings last week, someone suggested looking into setting up some sort of feedback mechanism for our field sales to "enhance communication" with product marketing. But where do I start?

During my last week in Chicago I attended the iBio event on Understanding Quality by Design - a panel discussion between Venkat Venkatasubramanian (Purdue), Dan Heighway (Eli Lilly), and Sam Venugopal (Conformia).

Joe Ely has a great post that ties the ideas of Work-in-Process (WIP) and Inbox Zero: "Minimizing Work-in-Process for Knowledge Workers."

The AMA Moving Ahead newsletter tells us something that isn't terribly new: "New Grad Hires: Ready and Willing, but Are They Able?."