Whether you’re watching “Shark Tank” or reading a crowdfunding campaign, the term revolutionary gets tossed around quite a bit. I like Peter Drucker’s definition of revolutionary; the true revolution is when technology or processes from a totally different sector overturn a market, such as genetics… Read More
There’s an old business axiom that if you want to find a business idea, truly listen to the complaints of others because the solution to that problem probably has a market. And something similar can be said about continuous improvement projects, though there are additional… Read More
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” I’ve heard this quote attributed to Aristotle, though there is some debate about this. Another variation of this quote is “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit”. But… Read More
A classic Peter Drucker quote is “What gets measured, get managed.” A quote attributed to W. Edwards Deming is “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” Big Data attempts to collect as much information as possible in the hope that the data can be used… Read More
