Posts Tagged ‘making’

Decisions&Models

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Let’s first start with an apology: this article is filled with personal business reminiscences and reading/learning references.

I will start from the end- with a personal joke.

(just 2141 word ;) )

Pattern-based visual decision making

Friday, November 13th, 2009

I think that Edison said: innovation is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

As over the next two years it is currently planned that I will not have time to do my usual consulting activities, beside for some activity online, mainly pro bono, I started over the last few weeks to share some material that I had planned to use in my services or with my partners.

This short preamble will be in each article.

If you manage to turn something to a practical use- good luck: you will have to do the 99% missing!

And now, we can move to today’s article.

XXI century managers who started using mobiles over the last few years, and are now just kids, will probably better equipped to interact with a visual approach.

Preemptive lawmaking & expert systems

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Today, I was replying to a friend on Facebook about his remark on widespread corruption in his country.

From that, while writing my reply, I started re-thinking about something else: why do we have corruption?

Because we have rules that somebody is willing to circumvent- and somebody else able to let them do it.

And why? Because too many laws and rules are built to regulate something that is already available.

I am now ignoring the “details” of the difference between common law and countries following the Napoleonic approach, because, in our globalized world, also “laissez faire” countries are increasingly regulating tiny details. Either directly or via reporting/control rules.

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