One of the consequences of an over focus on process, be it BPR (Business Process re-engineering) or the more recent manifestation in Six-Sigma (which I sometimes refer to as Six-Stigma for reasons that I will expand on at some stage in the future) is an emphasis on Fail-safe, or getting it right. Now in a […]
Farshad whose company is leading the development of Sensemaker™ has a great tradition where his whole family go and live somewhere other than his normal haunts for a month every year. They set up the infrastructure so he can carry on working, but change their environment. This year was Argentina and on his blog he […]
One of the things I’ve noticed over the years is that doing new things is hard. Something that is self evident to the innovator is conceptually difficult to the establishment, by which I mean everyone who is comfortable for good or bad reason with the current way of doing things. You then get a secondary […]
This is the 50th entry since I started this blog and I was going to attempt something significant. However I decided instead to highly commend Jasper Fforde’s latest book The Fourth Bear which I am currently reading as my non-academic feed. Fforde comes in a long tradition of British humour that stretches from Swift and […]
A long time ago, back in the 60’s I got interesting in flying saucers probably because in early pre-teenage they seemed more accessible than girls. We founded a society at school and camped overnight on the top of Welsh hills to observe the arrival of the aliens. I was catering officer of the first expedition […]
On the ACT-KM list serve someone made a comment to the effect that we should not give up trying to predict a complex system. I just posted a reply which I repeat here. It needs more work but I offer it for comment: Words can mean many things in the context. However I think its […]
I’m sitting here with a can of Tiger trying to get away from emails and skype conversations to do some serious writing. I am listening to Boulez’s Bayreuth Ring Cycle which for me is the most powerful and driven version of the modern era with the best Brunhilde of all time in Dame Gwynneth Jones. […]
Patrick Lamb’s article on the certification wars continues to attract some comments and reminded me of a side panel that went on at the time relating to standards, ISO etc. etc. Basically there were three attempts that I know of none of which have actually set a standard, two of which were useful. In the […]
I wanted to share a great quote from Gabriele Lakomski’s scholarly but very readable Managing without Leadership that picks up on the general question of nauralising as opposed to normative approaches of which more some time this week. The book is priced at £62 on Amazon which is pity as at a more normal price […]
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