Posted in Delivery on November 20th, 2009 1 Comment »
(…continued from Deconstructing Lean’s costs and benefits)
I like Lean’s coherence and its focus on methods of achieving business change, but I have some doubts about applicability of its mainstream form to IT. This post describes why and sketches out some speculations about alternative models to use for IT.
What is waste
To help you understand why I […]
Posted in Collaboration, Technology on November 15th, 2009 No Comments »
Some fun thought experiments combining few EconPapers:
Aral, Brynjolfsson & Van Alstyne found out that “asynchronous information seeking such as email and database use promotes multitasking while synchronous information seeking over the phone shows a negative correlation.” Add to that the conclusions of the paper by Nick Bloom from LSE that shows that “technologies that reduce […]
Posted in Collaboration, Technology on November 12th, 2009 No Comments »
In the last post I asked a (rhetorical) question about case studies for social computing software. I had a quick look around to answer my own question, and in fact I found quite a few of them. Most case studies are from knowledge-heavy industries/functions, but you can get a decent view on which functions you […]