… and User Design.
Yes, that’s it: what are the input, the specifications product Designers have, to do their job?
And what are the Users’ product characteristics they want to pay for?
#9 – DESIGN FOR USERS – UMBERTO TUNESI
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#9 – PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE MODELS – ADINA SUCIU
This is the third part in the series of three articles focused on Performance Excellence Models. We are comparing the Baldrige Performance Excellence Framework and the European Framework for Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence Model and we show a higher level paradigm of similar best practices and approaches.
Bad Risk Management Decisions Made By Executives – Dr. Carolyn Turbyfill
I am soliciting real examples, suitably camouflaged, in response to this post. Examples can be of decisions made by a variety of people with a known motivation (i.e. well-intentioned, malicious, irresponsible) or an unknown motivation.
#9 – NEW TECHNOLOGIES: THE HYPE, THE CHASM, AND THE CLIFF – DR. CAROLYN TURBYFILL
Silicon Valley investors have been characterized as lemmings charging towards the latest buzzword (defined as cliffs) with tribal abandon. Trends I recall from the top of my head include RISC (reduced instruction set computers), client-server, PDA’s, browsers, search engines, java, security, appliances, managed services, Linux, virtualization, mobile applications, cloud, big data and the latest craze – Software Defined Networking (SDN).
#9 – DO WE REALLY CARE FOR AND ABOUT RISK? – UMBERTO TUNESI
Yes, indeed: we give birth to Risk, nourish Risk, make it grow.
Some facts:
We all know that the Germans are quite maniac at safety – when they want: in a Factory making body steel parts for some BMW models, you have to wear a safety helmet when walking around a multi-tons steel-coils-handling crane. Now, what a poly-propylene crash helmet would do to protect your head, I leave it to your imagination. Continue reading