Everyone a Craftsman™
A friend and I were talking about uncertainty and before it lurched to Heisenberg we discussed its relevance to management. Taleb’s “Antifragile” is a nice approach to uncertainty in “a world we don’t understand” and broadens the casual use beyond vacillation or simply indecision. But not all of us have time to read 500-odd pages …
Productivity in manufacturing is affected by Taiichi Ohno’s Seven Wastes: overproduction waiting transporting inappropriate processing unnecessary inventory unnecessary / excess motion defects The elimination of these wastes lies behind most manufacturing process improvement regimes. Waste comes in a different form in the service industries. John Seddon identifies this as failure demand – demand on your …
There is a lovely story about a young boy and a lost horse. One day a horse turned up on a farm. No-one knew from whence it came nor who owned it. A young boy climbed onto its back and waited for it to start walking. The horse would occasionally stop to eat or look …
Digital disruption, driverless cars, process automation, robotics in the workplace. All symptoms of technological advancement and achievement and all to be hailed. But… Let’s have a look at the century 1950 – 2050. Let’s call 1950 the Birth of the Computer Age. We’re now in 66 AD (that’s After Digital for the Latin speakers amongst …