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 wear). The English title of the film is Pyramids of Waste or alternatively The . . . → Read More: Prêt à jeter
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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 with Europe: Check in 15 days in advance with Ryanair – and . . . → Read More: Brain-damaged bureaucracy 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 anywhere, who packed it and you and your luggage will go through various scanners. . . . → Read More: Making airport security smarter 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: 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 “hard discounters” (their term for discounters like Aldi and Lidl) are in the top ten global players. Between them, these six make $178,6 billion annual revenue out of the $220,2 billion that the top ten make between them. That is pretty impressive. 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 producing a project plan. Recently I have been looking for a tool . . . → Read More: Good tool for documenting ideas 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 worry, we won’t hire anyone over 40.”) Which is reflects perfectly the current . . . → Read More: Broken down One law for Wolfowitz, and another for the third world. What a pity the same standards don’t apply in both cases. 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? 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 bugs are (never having seen one, or been bitten by one) the necessary . . . → Read More: Bed bugs |
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