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Enterprise Agility | NetObjectives: SIPOC helps you figure out where to start
30 January 08 07:33 PM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

Some very good basic advice here from Jim Trott at NetObjectives about applying lean principles and systems thinking to improve software development. An excerpt: "When it comes to analyzing where to start in helping a development organization, it often Read More...

Filed under: systems thinking, adaptive, lean

When information is not scarce, what does it mean to know?
16 November 07 05:10 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Another very interesting video here from the folks at Kansas State University that did the Academia 2.0 post and initial response . (BTW, the first video on the linked page IS the Academia 2.0 video, so be sure scroll down to the second video.) Similar Read More...

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Academia 2.0? The reponse to A Vision of Students Today
17 October 07 08:55 AM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

Technorati Tags: Adaptive , User Experience , Computing is a liberal art , knowledge , academia 2.0 Walter Stier posted a link to an interesting video made by a Kansas State cultural anthropology class on what it's like to be a college student today. Read More...

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Computing Is A Liberal Art, Part 3: Strategies for Reinforcing Loops and the Hive Mind
20 June 07 03:59 PM | john.mullinax | 3 Comments   

Technorati Tags: innovation , systems thinking , complexity science , adaptive , change , learning , Popfly , computing is a liberal art , knowledge , cyborg Here's a conundrum: if knowledge is personal, how do I benefit from what you "know"?  Read More...

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Computing Is A Liberal Art, Part 2: Knowledge is personal
20 June 07 05:34 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Technorati Tags: innovation , systems thinking , complexity science , adaptive , change , learning , Popfly , computing is a liberal art , knowledge , cyborg In the natural world, few (if any) things grow without limits.  In the case of information Read More...

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Computing Is A Liberal Art, Part 1: Education Inflation
20 June 07 01:59 AM | john.mullinax | 5 Comments   

Technorati Tags: innovation , systems thinking , complexity science , adaptive , change , learning , Popfly , computing is a liberal art , knowledge , cyborg Education Inflation   Most of us are familiar with the rising cost of education/tuition Read More...

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Build to last is dead, speed rules, competency is currency. Resistance is futile.
15 June 07 05:09 PM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

Technorati Tags: innovation , systems thinking , adaptive , change , decision making , learning , context aware , cyborg An email exchange with a few colleauges last night, including Chris Bernard and Josh Holmes , got me thinking about the network as Read More...

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Learning to thrive in times of accelerating change
15 June 07 02:24 PM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

Technorati Tags: continuous learning , systems thinking , adaptive , change , learning Over the last couple of years I've often heard about the need for a "sense and respond" capability -- to sense what's happening in our businesses and to respond Read More...

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Want Innovation? Don't Build to Last -- Build for Adaptation!
30 March 07 12:07 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

The pace of change in the world continues to accelerate. Business is global. Technology enables markets in New York to react almost instantly to changes in Shanghai. Technology gives us the power to be always on and always connected. Technology lets us Read More...

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Vicarious reputation growing from a virtual economy for reputation system points?
17 February 07 01:03 AM | john.mullinax | 0 Comments   

It's an interesting idea that Josh Ledgard learned is being used in China, and blogged about here . I like that it tries to make the reputation system points more useful/valuable, and encourages people to ask questions they really want answered -- that Read More...

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The Best Payback in Technology History... Think you know what it is???
16 February 07 04:38 AM | john.mullinax | 4 Comments   

Hmmm.... How about a giant ERP system? :-) Nope. Internet Explorer? Windows Mobile? Getting closer, but those are only "honorable mention" in my book. If you're a company with a large investments in ERP and Line of Business (LOB) applications, my vote Read More...

Filed under: Microsoft, innovation, continuous learning, adaptive, lean manufacturing, change, secret sauce, decision making, business intelligence, learning

Lean Everywhere
17 January 07 11:29 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Lean manufacturing has been around for a long time. Many of the principles of lean were identified in Henry Ford's work before the US Great Depression of the 1930s, and significantly extrended by Kiichiro Toyoda and Taiichi Ohno during the middle of the Read More...

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