When are Lean Thinking, A3 Problem Solving, PDCA, Kaizen and Continuous Improvement not enough? There is actually a time when considering small incremental improvements are the wrong thing to do. When you are dealing with a high degree of uncertainty, there still needs to be a process in place. If not, you may end up Read More …
Outstanding presentation from Amy Jo Kim, an adjunct professor of Game Design at USC’s Digital Media school, recently named top US-based game design school. She’s also the author of Community Building on the Web (2000), a design handbook for digital communities that’s used worldwide at game studios & universities.[Email Amy]. This presentation was delivered at Read More …
Gartner Group predicts Gamification will be a key trend that every CIO, IT planner and enterprise architect must be aware of as it relates to business. Quick Introduction: Gamification is the process of introducing game mechanics into activities to make them more game like. The Game Mechanics are principles, rules, and mechanisms that run a Read More …
The Perfect Storm has come together of Excess Capacity and Product Variety was a blog post from a while back that quoted Carol Ptak as saying, “A lot of people have focused on the fact that the Economic times right now are really bad. What a lot of people are missing is the fact that Read More …
Razi Imam founder of 113 Industries was on the Business901podcast Empower yourself before the Team. We discussed a powerful motivational philosophy highlighted in Razi’s new book Driven: A How-to Strategy for Unlocking Your Greatest Potential. Before the podcast we had discussed his new company, 113 Industries, an industry-driven business incubator focusing on helping breakthrough discoveries Read More …
This Ted video offers some great ideas about design in a a spectacular (and often quite funny) slide deck of surfer-turned-designer David Carson work and found images. He also exposes some surprising description of several prominent magazines handling of sensitive media. Lean about Design, Discover and Humor and not in any particular order. Related Information: Read More …