The Outliers Inn; Business Process Tangles
Welcome to Episode 28 of the Outliers Inn: Business Process Tangles
Join Ben and Joe with their special guest Brian Hunt as they discuss business process tangles and how to un-tangle them.

Welcome to Episode 28 of the Outliers Inn: Business Process Tangles
Join Ben and Joe with their special guest Brian Hunt as they discuss business process tangles and how to un-tangle them.

Technology and the auto-industry is ever-more conjoining, according to Reuters. In 2012, a small team of Google Inc engineers and business staffers met with some of the world’s largest car makers, to discuss partnerships to build self-driving cars. It was as if the two were “talking a different language,” recalls one person who was present. Even…

Throughput is not the goal. Aligned throughput is. In product development, speed is often mistaken for progress. Teams push for faster cycles, more prototypes, and quicker releases. Calendars fill. Backlogs move. Hours increase. Yet despite visible effort, schedules slip and quality erodes. This is not primarily an execution failure. It is a capacity design failure….

“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.” The Red Queen, in “Through the Looking-Glass” by Lewis Carroll Introduction Industry experts assert that data is the new gold. Even more valuable than…

What a difference a year makes… Looking back at my last year’s Holiday article called 2008 “The year of quicksand” I made several references to the rip-saw in the economy and the plummet of almost every known economic indicator. Some pundits were even speaking of an “economic Armageddon”. Everything is still not back to the “before” –…

McKinsey & Co means that few fiscal opportunities are bigger than reducing revenue leakages from tax and payment abuse. And now, new sources of data and new analytics tools are giving governments the upper hand. Read more here

The investor due diligence process has evolved with the growth of the hedge fund industry. What was once a short and rather perfunctory process has grown into one which today is highly quantitative and detailed. While there is no one-size-fits-all formula for investors, one certainty is that managers who understand the components of the due…