Mark Burgess is a theoretician and practitioner in the area of information systems, whose work has focused largely on distributed information infrastructure. He is known particularly for his work on Configuration Management and Promise Theory. He was the principal Founder of CFEngine, and is emeritus professor of Network and System Administration from Oslo University College. Read More …
Jeff Sussna founder of Ingineering.IT, facilitates Adaptive IT through teaching, coaching, and strategic design. He is the author of a new book Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy. The book and our conversation covers a lot of ground. If you are not familiar with a few of these terms, Jeff gives one Read More …
Robbie Kellman Baxter is a long-time advisor to some of the most popular membership-based businesses and author of the recent book, The Membership Economy: Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue. Membership surpasses subscriptions, sharing, and meshing – it’s about appealing to the human needs of a changing population. Download Read More …
I have been pretty vocal in the past about using Value Stream Mapping, Value Stream Mapping should be left on the Shop Floor, and along with a couple other blog posts, Shaping your Customers Vision and Kill the Sales and Marketing Funnel. I think these types of tools lead us down a precarious path when Read More …
A force is defined as a push or pull that changes an object’s state of motion or causes the object to deform. In nature, there are four fundamental forces (courtesy of the University of Tenn): The strong interaction is very strong but very short-ranged. It acts only over ranges of order 10-13 centimeters and is Read More …
I seldom post Ted Videos anymore to my blog but this video speaks to how the interaction between user and designer (this time an architect) in something as massive as a building has changed. A wonderful description that I hope you enjoy as much as I did. An excerpt for the video: Because it doesn’t Read More …