Mike Dalton has been writing a series about “the growth equation” and innovation management at Innovation Week. The last one is The Growth Equation: Upping Your Market Impact (6 Steps for Focusing Your New Product Efforts on High-Impact Opportunities). In it he takes the questions for technology and adds some thinking about how financial measures might be added into the questions. It’s always those last questions that trip up change efforts though.

Sep 11
Sep 11 Automation is the exercise of power

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continuous improvement

I came across this quote from Ernest Mueller in doing some reading on DevOps, and it stopped me in my tracks. “Automation is the exercise of power.”

Sep 22
Sep 22 Dynamic Strategy and Tactics Trees at #TOCICO16

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event report, theory of constraints

John Ricketts from IBM talked about his view that S&T trees should be dynamic, because the assumptions under which the S&T was built could change. One must be able to pivot as the underlying conditions change.

Mar 25
Mar 25 Focus on the processes, not the tools

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business, project management, theory of constraints

I see a lot of projects within business support organizations that look like "implement this tool." And then the organization is surprised when the project takes much longer than expected and the tool doesn't get used to the extent expected.

Aug 4
Aug 4 Quotes: the key to knowledge

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knowledge management

"Knowledge is a treasure chest and its keys are questioning." -Ibn Shihab

Jul 12
Jul 12 Seeder questions for knowledge management

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knowledge management

Jan 5
Jan 5 Good questions tame the overload fairy

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culture, personal effectiveness

Ask yourself some good questions, rather than worry about getting buried in information. This is the essential advice of Frank and Magnone's new book.

Feb 3
Feb 3 Questions again - it's how we learn

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knowledge management

Jun 20
Jun 20 This is about that other thing, right?

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business, project management

Mary Abraham, always interesting, has a good one that relates to something I heard recently from one of my clients.

Jan 15
Jan 15 Lisa Scheinkopf's questions

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business, theory of constraints

Mar 3
Mar 3 Create a burning desire

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community

Mukund Mohan documents a case study that talks about what engages a community: interesting questions.

Aug 18
Aug 18 Worldwide Q&A systems - Do they work?

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lazyweb, technology, knowledge management

I've seen a number of articles recently on a variety of systems that let people ask questions and have them answered by "experts." Those experts could be biochemists on a email list somewhere, or technology enthusiasts on the million-and-one online bulletin boards / newsgroups, or it could be the average Joe who happens to know just the right thing in order to answer a question.

Jan 24
Jan 24 The power of the question

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knowledge management

I discovered Anti-Knowledge by Bruce LaDuke recently. What struck me was the central role he gives to the power of the question in his framing of how human knowledge develops.

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Sep 12
Sep 12 Another way to use the Questions for Change

Sep 11
Sep 11 Automation is the exercise of power

Sep 22
Sep 22 Dynamic Strategy and Tactics Trees at #TOCICO16

Mar 25
Mar 25 Focus on the processes, not the tools

Aug 4
Aug 4 Quotes: the key to knowledge

Jul 12
Jul 12 Seeder questions for knowledge management

Jan 5
Jan 5 Good questions tame the overload fairy

Feb 3
Feb 3 Questions again - it's how we learn

Jun 20
Jun 20 This is about that other thing, right?

Jan 15
Jan 15 Lisa Scheinkopf's questions

Mar 3
Mar 3 Create a burning desire

Aug 18
Aug 18 Worldwide Q&A systems - Do they work?

Jan 24
Jan 24 The power of the question