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Welcome to Knowledge Jolt with Jack. This is where I have been keeping my ongoing thoughts about knowledge management, Theory of Constraints, and related topics since 2004.
One of my biggest interests is how these techniques can help the individual perform better in their role, and then how that individual performance can roll up to a higher-level business performance. Because if individuals cannot do well, there is no chance that the organization can do well.
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What follows are excerpts of my recent blog entries. Click through for the full text.
Overview of Tuesday and Wednesday at the Lean Software & Systems Conference. Communication. Learning. Many interesting people.
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Tuesday opened with a fun, story-filled keynote from Gregory Howell of the Lean Construction Institute. He had some interesting things to say about commitment and collaboration in the context of projects.
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A summary of my first day at the Lean Software & Systems Conference in Boston. Bill Fox, David Anderson, Nigel Dalton, portfolio management, non-IT Kanban.
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Competitive advantage has nothing to do with the toys (and techniques). It has to do with how you learn together.
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I am attending the Lean Software & Systems Conference this week.
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Another find on my personal effectiveness journey points to Dan Markovitz and his book, A Factory of One.
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Wasting time is such a 20th Century mindset. Why not give people the time and resources they need to accomplish interesting work, and then measure them on results instead?
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What is your span of control? How can companies change narrow roles into wider roles? These questions bedevil social business projects, just as they do with continuous improvement efforts. Thanks to Rawn Shaw for inspiring some thinking for me.
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A reader of my blog asked me to update my thoughts on what I'd like to see in a news reader today. I've taken several days of thinking about the topic and reflecting on my current reading habits (and desires) to put this least of desired features and capabilities together.
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Be conscious of what you are doing. This is my takeaway from Soren Gordhamer's blog post, "How to stay focused in a world of distractions."
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"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
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Interesting post by James Lawther on benchmarking (best practices) and the two options on doing the work. I love that he pokes all sorts of holes in the "easy way" of benchmarking.
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