It wasn’t so difficult to sell and buy until the recent past, let’s say until twenty years ago. But since, financial resources have become less and less available and the future doesn’t seem to bode for the better.
Enterprises have to keep living to give to their employees the money they need to survive. Continue reading
Once upon a time, a wise corporate trainer devised an exercise for a class on agile principles. As you might know, reducing risk by “failing faster” is a core principle of any agile method … but that’s getting ahead of my story.
The exercise was pretty simple in nature – take 25 pennies, flip them heads-up/tails-up/heads-up in succession and make sure they ended up in date order with Mr. Lincoln facing the same way. There were a couple of other rules designed to leverage lean principles and the goal was to progressively beat the time it took to complete the exercise over the course of three iterations of the tasks. Continue reading
Depending on God’s will, I’ll be sixty four next year.
Looking at what happened in the last seventy years or so, after the end of World War II, there have been dramatic changes in every aspect of human life and there will be similar changes in the next years to come, or perhaps less dramatic. Trends “invariably vary”, if there’s one thing about predictability is that’s unpredictable. Continue reading
Even if we’ve been educated as engineers strictly sticking to the principle quod demonstrandum erst (which is demonstrated) and to base our thoughts on numbers, it would be a big mistake to neglect our human nature, that makes us to perceive risk, and therefore subjectively predict its consequence(s).
Subjective risk perception is certainly useful as a primary source for risk prediction and consequent prevention but it can’t help much when we want or need to manage industrial or economical processes. Continue reading
The following check-list is intended to assess your esteemed company’s awareness of the importance of logistics processes, their risks and their relevance to attain your Company’s success.