The Alde Nilsson Award for production research is a Swedish award given annually to one or a few researchers who made notable contributions to the field of production research during the preceding year. Alde Nilsson was born in 1917 and graduated from the Swedish technical college as ‘gymnasieingenjör’. He came to worked at ASEA and was […]
Summer is over, and I’ll be resuming my blogging. First off is a note about the 2010 Alde Nilsson award, which was announced last week. Two researchers were awarded 30000 SEK each for their contributions to production research. Danfang Chen, KTH, works with factory information modelling. Her licentiate thesis, published in 2009, was titled “Information […]
The wedding [SvD, SvD, DN] between Swedish Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel (Daniel Westling) is completely off topic for this blog. But here are some comments anyway. Like so many other Swedes who live outside of Stockholm, I spent much of Saturday following the wedding and celebrations from the TV in my living room. Although […]
He founded the Stockholm branch of the Swedish Institute for Production Engineering Research, IVF, during a break in his doctoral studies in 1965. Before he had time to complete his Ph.D. he became a professor in production engineering at Linköping Institute of Technology, LiTH (1971–1976), and in manufacturing systems at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, […]
Yesterdays post about McKinsey Quarterly’s interview with Richard Rumelt [D. Lovallo and L. Mendonca, “Strategy’s strategist: An interview with Richard Rumelt”, The McKinsey Quarterly, nr.4, pp.56–67, 2007] left out one important point. The bullet point. In another post back in January, I mentioned that I’d read Edward Tufte’s “Visual display of quantitative information” and “Visual Explanations”. […]
I read this interview with famous strategy professor Richard Rumelt [D. Lovallo and L. Mendonca, “Strategy’s strategist: An interview with Richard Rumelt”, The McKinsey Quarterly, nr.4, pp.56–67, 2007]. Rumelt thinks that some of the biggest changes in the strategy field over the last 20 years or so have been in the process of generating business […]
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