So I ran into some bad luck with choice of sessions and I also ended up not getting in to a few others. But here’s a brief summary of what I did manage to see. What: Work Hacking away from business as usual Who: Ayelet Baron, Rawn Shah I listened in to this talk only […]
What: Workplace distractions: A new focus on focus Who: Ben Waber (Sociometrics), Janet Pogue (architecture), Gloria Mark (informatics), Rachel Silver (moderator) We are all pretty aware of the problems that task switching and context switching can cause. It’s one of the identified Lean “wastes” of knowledge work, and we who go to war on this […]
Coherent with my interest in “the future of work”, I will try to attend as many sessions here at SXSW as possible (there’s free beer everywhere, you know) that deal with the “how” of product development, innovation and work. I argue that these aspects of how we do what we do critically impact our capability […]
Last week I had the pleasure to attend the third physical Stockholm Stoos meet up. For those of you who don’t know what Stoos is, you can read up here. The topic of the evening was AgileHR, which I have touched upon previously, and the insightful Peter Antman from Crisp talked around a selection of slides […]
This is a follow up on a previous post where I talked a bit about how the way our work works is inspired by Lean principles. In this post we shall look into the concept of “Muda” i.e “Waste” and how we address this in our shop. Ten sources of waste: 1. Extra features What […]
When we look into the various ideas and concepts emanating out of the Toyota Way, the Toyota Production System (TPS) and all of the various Lean incarnations, we find that there are quite a set of principles and ideas to choose from, as various people and industries translate these concepts in order to adapt to […]
Have you ever heard the saying “Don’t just do something, stand there”? This is Wu Wei. The concept of Wu Wei, which roughly translates to “non-action” is attributed to Lao-tze, but the jury is still out on that one. Lao-tze is regarded as one of two “fathers” of philosophical Daoism, the other one being Zhuangzi. […]
So, if you’re a reader of this blog you might have seen me mention satisficing a number of times. This is a concept worth exploring deeper, and when we do, we’ll find ourselves in the midst of fascinating concepts such as bounded rationality, behavioral economics and decision making. Decision making, as a field of study […]
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech when it brings no evil to others is pleasant. — Sn 3.3 What we say matters. The buddhists recognize this, and the concept of expressing yourself in […]
There are some meetings that exist to coordinate efforts and information. Other meetings live to make decisions. A third meeting might be of an explorative nature. Then there’s the sad little meeting, who is so confused and lonely. The meeting that is all, or none, of the above. There’s a lot to be said about […]
Einstein is reported to have said that everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. I like that quote in relation to change. In the spirit of the old genius, let’s explore which core, basic ingredients we need in order to bake a change-cake. I’d say we need: A shared understanding of […]
I had the great opportunity to attend a workshop on NVC this weekend. The workshop was led by Marianne Göthlin a 20+ years NVC practitioner. Marianne has worked closely with Marshall Rosenberg and was one of the practitioners who introduced NVC in Sweden. I was first introduced to NVC several years ago when I studied the literature list for the still-way-ahead-of-their-time Kaos […]
Recently, I had the great opportunity to help with some mentoring and coaching for aspiring leaders at Hyper Island. The students in question find themselves in Team Lead roles, and we spent two nights discussing their concerns, challenges, questions and ideas concerning leadership, team work, concept development and production. And so yesterday, I headed of […]
This is part five in a series of blogposts where we look into a re-design of a Product Development Process. In the first part we talked about how we can think about value, in the second post we discussed choosing value, in the third part we looked into how we explore value, in the fourth […]
This is part four in a series of blogposts where we look into a re-design of a Product Development Process. In the first part we talked about how we can think about value, in the second post we discussed choosing value , in the third part we looked into how we explore value, and in […]
