Lean by Design

The following video (a bit long) purportedly documents the conspiracy that led to the murder of an Hamas military commander – Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, It is amazing for at least two reasons: it provides facinating insight into how a real-life assination plot might have been carried out it illustrates the power of video surveilance and related [...]

It occurred to me while watching a recent keynote address by Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, that the real threat Google represents to others in the ICT industry, is in the next generation computing platforms that they are developing. They are creating an almost insurmountable lead in Platform technologies that will power virtually all machine [...]

For much of the past 20 years, businesses have been triming costs, and becoming more competitive via a succession of outsourcing initiatives. It began with spinning out capital and labour intensive operations, such as manufacturing; proceeded with outsourcing so-called non core activiities, and in the last decade has focused on off-shoring labour intensive activities to [...]

I won’t insert any of my biases here … it’s worth viewing on its own