Browse by Tags

• adaptive
• business intelligence
• change
• complexity science
• computing is a liberal art
• decision making
• Deming cycle
• innovation
• knowledge
• lean
• Lean Everywhere
• lean manufacturing
• learning
• manufacturing
• Microsoft
• OODA loop
• secret sauce
• six sigma
• systems dynamics
• systems thinking
• uncertainty

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...

Filed under: innovation, continuous learning, systems thinking, complexity science, adaptive, change, learning, computing is a liberal art, knowledge

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...

Filed under: continuous learning, systems thinking, adaptive, change, learning

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

Why bother with lean? Because it Rocks!!
18 January 07 12:13 AM | john.mullinax | 2 Comments   

My last post left off with the following set of questions: Why bother with lean? Really, why would we want to imitate an old and slow industry like manufacturing? Especially given it's long and steady decline in the United States. With the acceleating Read More...

Filed under: continuous learning, lean manufacturing, manufacturing, change, lean, decision making, business intelligence, six sigma, learning, Deming cycle, OODA loop, uncertainty, Lean Everywhere

Ontological Uncertainty and Innovation
27 November 06 10:28 PM | john.mullinax | 4 Comments   

Thought folks might find this 2004 working paper from David A. Lane and Robert Maxfield at the Sante Fe Institute of interest: http://www.santafe.edu/research/publications/workingpapers/04-06-014.pdf . It’s a little dense, to say the least, so I posted Read More...

Filed under: innovation, continuous learning, systems thinking, systems dynamics, complexity science