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Volkswagen is the world’s biggest automaker. The problem is that traditional diesel and gas powered automobiles are endangered and will be less profitable in a consumer world worried about climate change.
Volkswagen Chief Executive Officer Herbert Diess last week warned VW senior management that they’ll have to “slaughter some sacred cows” within the organization. Tough words for tough times. Continue reading
Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) is a technology innovation, in which the creative process is controllable and not chaotic. This technology allows us to solve creative problems; using special laws, practices, policies, and tools.
Application of TRIZ helps to develop creative (inventive) thinking and creative personality qualities, making it possible to look at objects and phenomena in a new way.
For the longest time, cable television was a miraculous technology that not everybody had in their homes, mostly because not everybody could afford it. Now, not everyone has it in their homes because YouTube TV, Sling TV, and other new, emerging technologies have disrupted the broadcast industry. So why didn’t Spectrum think of it first? Why did they become the disrupted and not the disruptor? Continue reading
In my article, “Build Organizational Capacity and Capability – For Free”, I listed several root-causes for training and education programs reaching a “stall speed” and a detailed approach for avoiding it. Among the root-causes listed were; time, expense, work/learning balance, scalability, retention rate, and atrophy.
But there is considerable risk to the program even prior to its launch, and that involves the creation of a proper curriculum and learning environment. Continue reading
A Question & Answer Period with Fred Schenkelberg and James Kovacevic on what can be done with your data and analysis.
Data and the analyses that use the data can be tricky to manage at best, let along extremely difficult.
In this last post of the series on using the maintenance data you have, Fred and James will answer many of the common questions asked about data and the analyses. Continue reading