Förra veckan befann jag mig i Montreal för att delta i den internationella vetenskapliga konferensen CARV, förkortning för Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual production. Det handlade om en konferens för produktionsforskare arrangerad med stöd av internationella produktionsakademien CIRP. Temat var ekonomiskt och miljömässigt uthållig produktion. Artiklarna ges ut i form av en bok på Springer […]
The proceeding for “Stålforskningsdagarna” has finally arrived from print. It has two parts, where the first provides an overview of educational programmes and research facilities in materials science at Dalarna University. The second part consists of papers authored by the speakers at the conference next week. “Stålforskningsdagar 2011 — Materialteknik vid Högskolan Dalarna”, Joakim Storck (editor). […]
Here are short opinions on some of the books that I have read since the beginning of June. Smile or die: How positive thinking fooled America and the world by Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). After finishing this book last night, my previously suspicious attitude towards the plethora of self-help and positive thinking books out there has been reinforced. […]
An observant reader might have noticed that I mentioned, on my about page, that I’m an amateur bookbinder. As a member of the Falun amateur bookbinders’ society (Falu amatörbokbindare), I try to get some time off to go down to the bindery every once in a while and make some progress on my various book binding […]
Reading the initial chapters of David Teece’s “Dynamic capabilities and strategic management”, I can’t help getting the feeling that the author has got something slightly wrong. I know my credibility in case weighs lightly against the words of the distinguished professor Teece, but let me explain what I feel is wrong with his reasoning. First, […]
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 […]
For the moment I’m concerned with industrial innovation processes. Why are they necessary? What types of innovation processes exist in an industrial production company? What’s the link between innovation and competitiveness? And how is innovation linked to related fields like organisational learning and dynamic capabilities? A couple of days ago I received a copy of […]
Yesterday I was made aware of this article on the website of the Royal Institute of technology, KTH, where Margareta Norell Bergendahl, professor in integrated product development at KTH, discusses the danger of uncritically adopting lean principles in product development. It so happens that a couple of days ago I started reading Donald G. Reinertsen’s […]
Yvon Chouinard’s book Let my people go surfing: the education of a reluctant businessman is both an autobiography, a company history and a book about business philosophy. It is an inspiring read for anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit that dreamed about or actually did start their own business. This book shows that there can be […]
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