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Metrics Driven Design – Blue Madness

Monday, June 27th, 2011in Process, Product Creation, by / 0 Comments

As many of you know, Google did some optimization of their color pallet as documented in the 41 shades of blue blog.  Customer driven/quantified decision making using objective metrics are normally the goal of most organizations who normally shoot from the hip.  Did Google go too far? There are some good treatments of “Metrics Driven [...]

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Affinity for Diagrams (14)

Thursday, March 24th, 2011in Book, Product Creation, by / 0 Comments

Henry David Thoreau “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” What’s new? The affinity diagram is a graphical technique for seeing patterns and achieving consensus in a group process that builds up from the details into a complete picture that provides insight based on facts.  This diagram, which consists of [...]

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Circle Dots and the Directly Responsible Individual

Friday, March 18th, 2011in Book, Process, Product Creation, by / 0 Comments

What’s new? This graphical technique can help you clarify who is charge of a given element of a program or project – eliminating confusion and building teamwork.  Distributed, global teams are now becoming the default way of organizing rather than a rare exception; however, with this kind of organization communication is essential.  Given the distributed [...]

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All Business is Personal

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011in Process, by / 0 Comments

All Business is Personal – A Talk by John Thompson Hosted by MIT’s Sloan School The MIT Sloan School of Management, The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Track, The MIT Sloan MediaTech Club, and the MIT Entrepreneurship Center invited John W. Thompson, Chairman, Symantec Corporation to speak on January 4, 2011 at the Computer Museum in Mountain [...]

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Why Benchmarking Often Fails to Deliver Results

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010in Predictive Metrics, Process, by / 0 Comments

On one hand, the benchmarks are rejected because they are not relevant, but on the other if you benchmark your competitors you may get a conciliation prize at best. So what can be done to be successful? There are three ingredients: Compare with smarts, Borrow with creativity, and Implement with Passion.

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