When one considers the effect that the sub prime lending mortgage crisis is having, one cannot help but be surprised as to how the unimportant issues have overridden the important ones, and how this has led to the downward spiral that the world economy is in today. What bothers me the most is the nature [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Management’
July 9, 2008
Google, Microsoft, Small World Networks and Futurology
Microsoft and Google’s business methods seem to use pioneering methods, or at least, best practices whose inner workings have been revealed by new found knowledge in the realm of small world networks, and network science. Network science is one of the hottest growing areas on the planet. It is the science of all the connections between various people, phenomena, processes, structures and pretty much any phenomenon whose states are determined by the interaction of multiple phenomena or influences.
March 18, 2008
Predicting Collective Financial Futures
It is probably impossible, even to hard core Asimov fans who believe that the science of psychohistory (as illustrated by Asimov) is possible. However, is it possible to predict, based on a set of operating state variables, the systemic state of an organization?
Here’s a PhysOrg post about current research efforts into organizations, where, by measuring [...]
March 7, 2008
MS Project can stuff it
I’ve spent the better part of today (a Friday) wasting my time on MS Project. I think it is an utterly useless Gantt charting software masquerading as a leading project management tool. The software has been designed so clumsily that it doesn’t do what is intuitively correct with the inputs you give it. The wizards [...]
December 31, 2007
The Tyranny of the Visible
…….an automobile assembly plant struggled to reduce customer quality complaints. One major quality issue was wind noise complaints. A less frequent complaint was “high door closing efforts.” Because door efforts were a “visible” issue during the assembly process, they received more hour by hour management attention than wind noise, even though customers were more sensitive [...]
