Learn to think like a Gamer

Dr. Karl Kapp, author of The Gamification of Learning and Instruction was my guest on the Business901 podcast, Learning with Gamification. If you need an introduction, or maybe you are ready to take the next step and gamify a few engagement strategies or your training. This podcast and transcription are a great place to start. Read More …

Think and Design like a Storyteller

Storytelling is all about engagement. Designing with a narrative in mind can make a difference between a product that merely functions will and one that engages the minds and emotions of users. This session will explore how an understanding of narrative techniques can make us better designers. This video is a little long but an Read More …

Spontaneous Marks help you think – Doodling

A doodle is an unfocused drawing made while a person’s attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes. Stereotypical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class. Other common examples Read More …

Dynamic Buffer: Think Self-organized Teams

This is part of my blog series on using the principles of Demand Drive MRP and its five primary components. This particular blog focuses around Dynamic Buffers, or in the marketing sense, Self-organized Teams. Over the course of time, group and individual traits can and will change as new suppliers and materials are used, new Read More …

Is Orlicky MRP relevant today Think DDMRP

Is Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning the blueprint for the future and revitalization of formal planning in the 21st Century? Some people think so as Carol Ptak and Chad Smith were asked to co-author the new Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning 3/E. But more impressive are the full houses of practitioners that Carol and Chad are Read More …