Prêt à jeter
I watched an interesting film on Arte last night, about planned obsolescence. I liked the title in French – Prêt à jeter (ready to throw away), a play on the phrase from the fashion industry, “prêt à porter” (ready to … Continue reading
Category Archives: Management
Brain-damaged bureaucracy
I mentioned the Israeli approach to airport security a few posts ago – they aim to have you out of the carpark and into the departure area in a maximum of 25 minutes by applying intelligent security checks. Contrast this … Continue reading
Making airport security smarter
Air travel in Europe or the USA is an ordeal these days. You will probably have to show your ID multiple times during the check-in process for international flights, you will be asked whether you have left your luggage unattended … Continue reading
Innovative Post
The German Post has implemented some innovative services which either haven’t been copied abroad, or only took off in other countries quite a bit later:
Successful German Discounters
Wal-Mart gave up trying to compete in Germany in 2006, unable to compete effectively against Aldi and Lidl. Nonetheless, I was surprised to read in the latest Harvard Business Review (link to a summary of the article), that six German … Continue reading
Good tool for documenting ideas
I’ve mentioned before, that we both use mind maps – they are a great way of sorting out ideas for a presentation or sorting out what work needs to be done in a project, before you get as far as … Continue reading
Broken down
Today’s El País contains a cartoon, of a minister saying: Ampliaremos la edad de jubilación a los setenta, pero no os preocupeis, a partir le los cuarenta ya no os contrataremos (“We’ll raise the retirement age to 70, but don’t … Continue reading
Different standards
One law for Wolfowitz, and another for the third world. What a pity the same standards don’t apply in both cases.
Strange point of view
Spotted – this judgement on Toyota stocks in my bank’s online portal today: Translated: Our vote – UnattractiveToyota continues to do almost everything right So what does an enterprise have to do to be recommended as a hot buy?
Bed bugs
This article on StickyMinds.com is about bed bugs (rather than software bugs) and how to react in a crisis. It’s quite interesting at that level, even if you’re not a software developer. But what amazed me is: how big bed … Continue reading