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Hidden Expense…
Uncertainty is a huge hidden expense in your business.
There’s the obvious expense of work not getting done — as uncertainty causes people waiting for decisions instead of working.
But the more damaging and expensive side of uncertainty is the work that gets done the wrong way.
The wrong work
Unresolved strategic issues, don’t just stay in the [...]
What do Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Maya Angelou, Francis Bacon, and Anna Quindlen have in common? Not all that much, actually…except that they’re all really smart people who translated their smarts into great success in their chosen professions. And we’ve quoted all of them in the last six weeks via our @exectweets feed on Twitter. [...]
In a recent post, I highlighted the importance of good prioritization as the foundation for a good product, service or project. Once the priorities have been established, the next step is to focus on the “common cases” (i.e. the high priorities) and optimize around that. Setting priorities is an essential first step, before making the plunge [...]
With so many offerings in the market today, it’s hard for businesspeople to decide which computer to buy or whether it’s time to upgrade their computers. The truth is that even the worst computer sold nowadays is powerful enough for running basic applications such as browsing, e-mail and an office suite. Therefore, why should a [...]
Hewlett-Packard is launching a social network for IT professionals, complete with its own manifesto that begin with this statement:
“We the IT professionals do hereby state that we are misunderstood.”
That’s some way to start a manifesto. The manifesto goes on to state that “We have lived with the stereotype of being introverted, pessimistic loners for too [...]
People often refer to HTML5 as if it were an accepted standard already. However, this is not the case yet: The W3C consortium has so far submitted only the draft spec for this next-generation Web technology, although some popular browsers already support HTML5 elements or are about to start supporting them.
Most discussions of HTML5 currently [...]
Designing a new product or service is a fun, challenging, and often rewarding task. A blank canvas is an artist’s delight, but finishing a half completed painting is an entirely different story altogether. When building on an existing product or service, there is often feedback from users and a roadmap that has been laid out. [...]
Merriam-Webster defines “hacker” as both “a person who is inexperienced or unskilled” and “an expert at solving problems with a computer” — which seems completely contradictory until you delve more deeply into what it really means to be a hacker. I’m a hacker at heart, and my programming chops weren’t learned from a textbook [...]
Last month at the Google I|O conference, Google announced its TV platform. Google TV modules will be built directly into TV sets and offered separately as small stand-alone devices.
The Google TV hardware is based on Intel’s Atom CE4100 System on a Chip, using the same microarchitecture as Intel Atom processors used in netbooks. The Atom [...]
In a previous post, I wrote about the custom operating system ROMs available for my Windows Mobile smartphone and talked a bit about my appreciation of the of the community involved with the creation and support of these custom ROMs. While mostly great on their own, these custom ROMs don’t always include the latest versions [...]
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