By now everyone has likely heard about the business struggles that RIM continues to face. They have cut total employment significantly over the past few years. As a side note, they were a leading company is a high dollar industry that did everything in house – R&D, software development, security, manufacturing. That’s a lot of…
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Landscaping can tell you a lot about a building.
When you first walk up to a new building, you can tell a lot right off the bat by looking at everything around it. That first impression right off the street will tell you the age of the building (or last major remodel), the general condition of the infrastructure and how well you will be…
Five years ago this week, the first Android phone was released.
I saw an article somewhere today that mentioned this fact. It was a bit startling because I was one of those that pre-ordered the Google G1 when it was first announced. I still have it sitting in a drawer in its box because that phone made me very happy. It couldn’t stand with the iPhone…
Supply Chain and Logistics Talk – Four year trend – Customers
It’s been about four years (give or take) since the Financial Crisis caused so many firms to rethink their business. In general there was a big move to circle the wagons and do what you do best. But in the time since, there has not been a lot of strategic analysis in the supply chain…
Playing the “Keep off my Lawn” game on the internet never works out well.
Everyone keep in mind that the internet is the domain of those with the most free time at their computers and desire to throw their ideas into the world. That will never change. It doesn’t matter how long you have personally been using the internet or that you have blogged for 20 years. The internet…
Technology Turns
In the logistics world, Turns are the measure of inventory velocity. 12 turns per year means that you typically keep about 1 month’s inventory on hand. There are several ways to measure it, but they all come back to the same concept. Generally speaking, the more turns you have per year without losing the ability…
Passive aggressive behavior has never accomplished anything.
That should be all that needs to be said, but sadly it usually isn’t. Passiveness has never accomplished anything. Ever. Sometimes you get lucky and a situation resolves itself without any help on your part. But it’s more common that negative consequences come from sitting back and not meeting that unhappy task head on. Passive…
Your three most limited resources are time, energy and money – in that order.
In everything you do, these are your limited resources (in order of importance): Time Energy Money If you have no time to get something done, it makes no difference how much money you have – you will not get it done. If you have no desire or energy to do it – it will not…
Do not over-think or over-engineer your CRE systems.
The worst trap that you can fall into is delaying a release into the market. It’s the cardinal sin. If you write a 5 page specification when 1 would do, you will never get your system where it will be because it will be more complicated than it needs to be. Yes, CRE is a…
Avoid becoming a real estate Gatekeeper
Gatekeepers pop up in many an industry and institution. They can serve valuable roles when done right (such as when the cost of anyone throwing out bad ideas is low) but they can also serve as impediments where they don’t fit in well. According to Wikipedia a Gatekeeper is: A gatekeeper is a person who controls access…