The collected Body Of Knowledge of the Operational Excellence Society.
I’ve been on numerous plants tours over the past few decades. Eventually the tour winds up in either the warehouse or stockroom or both. At some point, I’ll ask whether they’re tight on space and inevitably the answer will be something like “always”, or “we never have enough”, or the real killer “yes, but we…
C-H-A-N-G-E – Six little letters that can perpetrate so much anxiety. Reactions to a changing environment are always unpredictable. Leaders never exactly know how the communication of a change will resonate or be absorbed by the organization. Being prepared to address the resistance to push back from change is a key success factor necessary to…
The Economist equates the hit television series “Game of Thrones” with an epic battle going on between some of the world’s largest technological firms. Indeed, the tech industry has a history of bitter rivalries, including past battles between IBM and Apple, Microsoft and Netscape. But the rivalries shaping the market today are even richer and…
As the Economist proposes: Germans are avid savers, but they do not like to invest. For as history reveals, at the beginning of 1923 the German mark stood at 7,260 to the dollar, and soon after hyperinflation struck – fixed incomes and savings became worthless. Come ninety years later, and it is the converse –…
The Economist attempts to explain how economic uncertainty dulls investment. It certainly takes a cool head to invest, because a firm’s decision to build up capacity or spend cash on research pays out tomorrow – and must be paid for today. This flow of things makes for uncertain investment returns, influenced by factors—from oil prices to politics—that…
The Economist means that security guards worth their salt are paid to be paranoid – and computer-security researchers are no different. Many had long suspected that governments use the internet not only to keep tabs on particular targets, but also to snoop on entire populations. And now, stung by revelations of ubiquitous surveillance and compromised software, the…
