Synesthesia

Notes on stuff

Archive for June 2003

New Site

If you can see this entry then you are looking at the new site for my blog – hopefully the DNS entries will propagate fairly quickly… I’m still with the same hosting company – they are good value and are always very responsive to support calls. I’ve moved hosts from one of their older Unix [...]

Lean Project Management – it’s about what you notice

Over at Reforming Project Management Hal Macomber is seeking to transfer the learning from Lean Production into the project management world. In Lean Production there exists the concept of the “visual workplace”, commonly expressed through the 5S model. Hal points out that projects may not always involve material products and resources but always involve people [...]

Learning Organisations and TOC pt 3

Continuing to work through Overcoming Organizational Defenses to find links with the TOC approach I extract some key UDEs from Chapter 1 of the book and note in passing the similarities of this technique to cognitive mapping.

Gurteen Knowledge Conference and XKM

Pointers to Matt Mowers summaries of the Gurteen Knowledge conference and his eXtreme Knowledge Management wiki.

Photoblogroll and FOAF?

An unfounded speculation about Ton Zijlstra's blogroll.

The periodic table of dessert

The Periodic Table of Dessert - not just fun, has some logical structure too! [via Apothecary's Drawer]

Learning Organisations and TOC pt 2

Finding more links between TOC and Argyris's observations on organisational defences.

Theory-in-Use meets Neuro-Semantics

Link to article combining Argyris' "Theory in Use" ideas with Neuro-Semantic coaching approach

Invisible dogma and learning organisations

Wondering how to combine the Theory of Constraints approach and Thinking Tools with the insights into organisational defense routines from Action Science in order to specify better technology solutions for businesses.

TOC and “Human Capital”

Pointer to Phil Wolff article

Blogs on Constraints

Weblogs that have good stuff on Theory of Constraints

Applying the Theory Of Constraints

First practical steps in applying Goldratt's Theory of Constraints to real-life problems
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