When the first year’s frost freezes cabbage, that’s Halloween time. I don’t know how people adjust their Halloween clock if they don’t live where cabbage don’t freeze.
You have certainly heard of Zen: Zen and the art of meditation, Zen and the art of making tea, Zen and the art of maintaing a motorbike, and so on. N ow, news have spread that Zen can even be applied to the arts of management. Continue reading
It has nothing to do with two-dimensional or more dimensional music. It has to do with stale thinking, instead. Continue reading
I wrote this piece 11 years ago and it was published by Quality Digest in July 2002. It seems still relevant:
Why have so few companies registered to ISO 9001 – 2000? Quality Digest in its July 2002 reported that “the actual figure (of companies that have transitioned) is probably 8 to 10 percent.”[i] Companies now have a little more than a year to transition to the new standard. One major reason for the slow transition may be the perceived value for transitioning to ISO 9001 – 2000 is not sufficiently compelling in these economic slow times. Continue reading
There’s this financial guy, Ty J. Young, who opens his TV ads with the following statement, “The world has changed. Clearly it’s not the 80’s and 90’s anymore.” A truer sentiment could not be stated describing the world of customer-supplier relationships, particularly related to risk in the global supply chain. Continue reading
We are no longer in a period of rapid change! We have now entered a unique period of time, unlike anything any of us have ever seen, that can best be described as transformation.
Three digital accelerators have been driving the transition from change to transformation for many years, but due to their predictable exponential rate, they have now reached an inflection point — a point where processes, products, services, and careers no longer change; rather, they transform. The three digital accelerators are:
The impact of these three accelerators—the enormous gains in power, miniaturization, product intelligence, interconnectivity, cloud services, mobility and a raft of other technological dimensions—will be felt in every industry, every corner of the globe, and every nook and cranny of society. Continue reading