November 2008 Archives

Typealyzer says that this blog appears to be of the Myer-Briggs type INTJ.

James Robertson has an initial model of collaboration, based on the idea that you have to form the capacity, then build the capability, and then create a strategy around how it fits into your organization.

James Robertson points to an aspect of one of my minor peeves with software: manuals that are online PDF's.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my U.S.A. based friends.

Mary Abraham writes about how metrics can drive the wrong behavior (or the wrong conclusions) in "The Metrics Mess."

I have seen two articles on business incubators this week. It's not something I usually worry about, but the coincidence strange.

James Robertson and Matt Hodgson had a pair of articles recently that I see as related on the topic of doing something with Enterprise 2.0.

Mark Forster has posted his Simplest Time Management Method. Interesting.

I'm in Philadelphia this week for the AIChE Annual Meeting, which is its usual collection of networking and technical sessions about all things engineering. There was a session today on the application of Web 2.0 ideas in chemical engineering.

A colleague forwarded "How Companies Are Using IT To Spot Innovative Ideas" from InformationWeek. It highlights how research organizations are adding prediction markets to their process of selecting new ventures to pursue.

I attended a webinar on Product Management today entitled, Product Manager 101: What Does A Product Manager Actually Do by Christopher Cummings of Lycos.

Kevin Meyer has a great story about visiting a Toyota manufacturing plant, getting to see what lean is really about. This reminds me that everyone has need of continuous improvement.

Mary's KM and the Pantyhose Fallacy from last week strikes a humorous realization for me. The Pantyhose Fallcy? "one size fits all."

In a conversation at a user group meeting, we were talking about options for adding foreign language to our products and the need for training in local language. The idea of active and passive knowledge came up.

My company brought in ZigZag Marketing to do some refresher training and provide some ongoing guidance around our product management / product marketing function. Here's an overview and some of my comments.

The September issue of Chemical Engineering Progress has an "Ask the Experts" column on Managing a Responsive Supply Network (pdf) by Ray Adams of SAP.