The collected Body Of Knowledge of the Operational Excellence Society.
Pipe dreams: in the process of ushering water from its source to its final destination, up to a whopping 30% can be (and often is) lost due to leaks. This translates into a staggering $14 billion a year financial loss, according to the World Bank. So, how does one go about finding these leaks, when…
Evolution of language: it’s commonly assumed that languages all inevitably share the same roots. However, research is now indicating that this may not be the case. New research findings have highlighted a distinct lack of correlation with regard to grammatical features between language families, and very few within language family’s as well. Could it be…
Research findings have recently indicated that your Apple mobile phone is even more powerful than you anticipated. A database file has been found in computers – synced with Apple’s iPhones and iPads – that contains unencrypted details of the iPhone owners’ travels over the past year. A date-location style log found within this database indicates…
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stopped at nothing in a bid to strategically win over University of Texas law professor Henry Hu to act as the head the first new division created at the agency in almost 40 years. However, the lengths the SEC sought fit to go to are now being questioned. Hu…
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Co-founder of Iodine and author of “The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine” Thomas Goetz takes the TEDMED stage to discuss the revolution of medical data. Your medical chart can be hard to access, impossible to read — and full of information that could make you healthier if…
Several years ago I had an awakening. I came to the realization that technology, by and large, did not live-up to its promises and that this gap between promises and reality was ever widening. This was (and is) especially true of business information systems – most usually referred to as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
