I used to do a lot of programming. As a young teenager I was the lucky owner of a Commodore C64 doing my best to program moving starfields and Uridium clones in assembler. Much later, during one stage of my career I was heavily involved in train traffic simulator development. This meant getting fairly proficient […]
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”. […]
When I wrote my doctoral thesis I decided that I wanted an index. I eventually managed to create one with the help of a Tcl script that I wrote. You can see the final result in the picture below. Why write my own script? Although I’d known for a long time that I wanted an index, […]
The idea of lean product development (LPD) came naturally when lean production evolved into the more general concept of “lean thinking”. Product development is different from manufacturing because, as soon as you target non–trivial development tasks, they will contain a degree of risk that introduces variation. You can’t remove this variation, because economic rewards in […]
A couple of days ago I started to prepare an introductory article on lean production which is meant to be a chapter in a course compendium I’m writing. As an amateur bookbinder, I value good typography and have been using LaTeX for my writing every now and then the last few years. I’m also doing […]
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