Forming Expectations Through Promises

“If you can trust a promise, you can save a lot of time and effort. It helps you to form expectations, and that expectation is knowledge that you build up by having a relationship with something or some process or some personal device.” – Mark Burgess Related Podcasts and Transcription: The Theory of a Promise Read More …

Designing through Promises

Mark Burgess is perhaps best known as the author of the popular configuration management software package CFEngine, but has also made important contributions to the theory of the field of automation and policy based management, including the idea of operator convergence and promise theory. Mark is the author of numerous books, articles, and papers on Read More …

From Thinking About Things

From Thinking About Things to Thinking About Relationships. The readers of my blog will recognize many of the terms Jeff Sussna used throughout the book, Service Design, Service Dominant Logic, Jobs to be Done, and Design Thinking, I asked if he had an underlying thread to all of it? Related Podcast and Transcription: Digital Services Read More …

Does Autonomy lead to Greater Clarity?

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 …

Team Building with Six Sigma

In a podcast, I had Jeffrey M. Koff, the Director of Lean Six Sigma Learning on from Xerox we broke off on some of the discussion on Lean and Six Sigma and focused briefly on team building. You can read or listen to the entire podcast here Design for Six Sigma or the podcast with Read More …

Should You Wait for Membership till after the Transaction?

The membership economy is over and above just a transactional action. The transaction should be just part of the whole membership thing. Membership shouldn’t be — let’s say after the transaction. -jd Robbie Baxter: Right, exactly. This brings us into the whole idea of a Freemium Model, which is the idea that you can have Read More …