What IT Can Learn From Manufacturing
Background A long time ago, or at least what seems like a long time ago, in the U.S., Manufacturing was King. For companies whose primary product was manufactured, manufacturing, along with finance,...
View ArticleTwo Tales of Customer Service
In the past couple of weeks I have had the distinct pleasure of driving nearly 3,000 miles through 8 states in the U.S.A. using two different cars. When one puts that many miles on vehicles in a...
View ArticleUnderstand the Outcomes, then Focus on the Inputs
The recent and ongoing debate on Healthcare highlights a problem that is prevalent throughout organizations, governments, and society in general. The problem is with the thinking process, or should...
View ArticleLean & Forrester’s Business Technology Forum
Well, it appears my fears have been realized. As I mentioned in a prior post, Lean & IT, I expressed concern on how IT organizations and consultants would respond to Forrester’s declaration that...
View ArticleEHR & The Ghost of Technologies Past
“It’s like déjà-vu all over again” Yogi Berra famously once said, and yes, it is. We’ve been here before. The promise of a new technology the will create so many efficiencies – too many to count. It...
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