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Goldratt’s 8 Rules Of Flow
Goldratt’s book ‘Rules of Flow’ establishes 8 rules which are illustrated over the course of Marc Wilson’s story arc. Continue reading
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Tagged Goldratt, Industry, The Goal, Theory of Constraints, ToC
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Goldratt’s Rules of Flow: Chapter 25 – “Lead Time is Getting Shorter”
Snap back to realityOh, there goes gravity – Eminem “Lose Yourself” Big moves in the plot! Marc gets a call for “Mr. Wilson” and accepts it, but it was really a call to his father and now Marc knows that … Continue reading
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Tagged Communication, First kiss, Goldratt, Industry, Innovation, leadership, Love, Succession Planning, The Goal, Theory of Constraints
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Goldratt’s Rules of Flow: A Summary of Part 2 of 3 – Chapters 9 – 19, Pages 47 – 116
Chapters 9 – 12 kick off with Marc Wilson working with his work-crush Abbie to change their approach to project management; telling the team the plan, iterating once they have feedback, and dealing with customer response to the changing methods. … Continue reading
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Crossing the Chasm: Page by Page Review – Moore’s Masterpiece
If you’re new to product management, marketing, sales or leadership in an industrial B2B supply chain – this book is the best place to start. Key Concepts Product Life Cycle Moore’s first chapter introduces the key tenant of the book … Continue reading
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Tagged B2B, Growth, Industry, Marketing, Sales, technology
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Industrial Business Models – Choice #1
Hardware is dead. Hardware is booming. Hardware is hard and no one should do it. Hardware is different. Hardware is the same. IoT, IIoT and additive manufacturing attract attention to heavy industry – where a thing is being produced and … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Models, Industry, leadership, Lean, Manufacturing, Operations, Sales
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The World Economic Forum’s ‘Top 10 Emerging Technologies’
Nanosensors! Autonomous vehicles! [Yawn.] We’ve seen these before. Organs-on-chips? Optogenetics?!? Now this is interesting. The Davos-based World Economic forum released a list of 10 emerging technologies that made a tour of the press a few weeks ago. There is no … Continue reading
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Tagged Autonomous Vehicle, Batteries, Borophene, Davos, Forecasting, Graphene, Industry, Materials Science, Science, Self driving cars, Silicene, technology, World Economic Forum
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Tech Forecasting: Comments on 6 Years of Forecasts (3 of 7)
Over six years of prediction shows, when the hosts were right, they were very right. When they were wrong, it was usually because they were too early or because of a surprise event in the area they were forecasting. Most … Continue reading
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Tagged DTNS, future, Futurist, futurology, Industry, Podcast, Podcasting, Tech Forecasting, technology, TNT
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Vendor Selection: What Works
The California DOT’s selection of a partnership with Fluor and Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (“ZPMC”) to build the new section of the Bay Bridge hasn’t gone well. It isn’t easy to chose the right partner for a unique project, … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital, Construction, Industrial, Industry, Infrastructure, Investment, Vendor Selection
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Organizations Want to Live
Any organization, once it is created, takes on a life of its own. It wants to live. Just as Kevin Kelly describes ‘technology’ as a seventh kingdom of life, in many ways the individual organizations encountered every day also behave … Continue reading
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Tagged Industry, Nonprofit, Not for profit, Organization, Organizational behavior, Strategy, Volunteer
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