We all want to take cost out of our organisations The way we do it is by jumping up and down on the issue that is causing us most pain at the time. We jump on spending to reduce expenditure. We jump on the finance budget, jump on the IT budget, jump on the postage […]
Fat Fingers and Process Bottlenecks
All processes have a bottleneck, a rate limiting step, something that stops them from going further faster. It is really important to know what the bottle neck is, because unless you open the bottleneck you will never get any better. Let’s take the mobile computer as an example. I am sitting on a train writing […]
Poo in the Pool
Imagine the scene, you won Euro Millions, you are a multi multi millionaire. To celebrate you bought a house high above Los Angeles in the Hollywood Hills. It has fabulous views out over the city and a beautiful aqua marine pool. You have been there a month and are holding a house warming party, all […]
The Perfect Employee
One of the biggest growth sectors for computer games is 30 to 40 year old women. This surprised me a little; I always thought it was spotty teenagers. Then somebody pointed me at Farmville. It all fell into place. This fact has huge ramifications for the gaming industry. If you are female, in your mid […]
Management Reports, Horses and Camels
Design and big groups just don’t work. There’s the old joke about a camel being a horse that was designed by a committee. It’s no accident that the most successful aesthetic designs of even the most expensive and complex products normally come down to a handful of people at most. It’s the same with the […]
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