On the premise that digitization is causing a radical reordering of traditional industry boundaries, McKinsey & Co. poses the question: What will it take to play offense and defense in tomorrow’s ecosystems? In an attempt to answer the question, this article delves into Japan’s single largest online retail marketplace: Rakuten Ichiba…
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Psychologist Angela Lee Duckworth studies intangible concepts such as self-control and grit to determine how they might predict both academic and professional success. She left a high-flying job in consulting in return for a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school, then discovered something about the power of true passion of perseverance….
Topic: Antlerboy and JP welcome the first-ever, all male and exclusively British guest roster. It’s a veritible sausage fest, except its more like Bangers. Come give a listen as we mash it up (see what I did there?). The episode starts with Antlerboy not being his usual joyful self, some would say “hacked-off”, “fed up”, or…
The Misconception of Reliability and Availability After a 10 year reliability journey that takes me across the appliances, power generation, aerospace, component placement, electronics design, wireless, and finally the cable industries, I would like to share my astonishing discovery with my friends and foes alike. My focus will be on the cable industry where my recent…
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Alexander Osterwald, Yves Pigneur & Kavi Guppta examines why 7 out of 10 employees are not actively engaged at work. HBR collectively believes the answer has everything to do with the culture of a company- being the formal and informal values, behaviors, and beliefs practiced therein. The fact is that very few companies intentionally work on their culture, that…
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Human-computer interaction researcher and designer Sean Follmer, designs shape-changing and deformable interfaces that are build to make the most of our natural dexterity and spatial abilities. In this paradigm-shifting TED talk, he poses the question: What will the world look like when we move beyond the keyboard and mouse? He answers the same question by employing himself…
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” –Albert Einstein. Over on Sourcing Innovation, the Sourcing Doctor has an excellent series of posts on driving adoption of Procurement technology. As someone who spent most of the last 15 years in the field of Procurement technology: in a Procurement organization, as a user first and, then, as…
