Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Jack Vinson – Out of the Crisis – still relevant: “Deming repeats the main mantra over and over: Management owns the system. It is the system that generates the results. If those results are unacceptable, it is management’s responsibility to investigate and improve the system. Repeatedly. This is continuous improvement and is the only way…

Ruben Verborgh – The lie of the API: “Accessing the website is quite easy: you just go to the URL of an object to visit it. […] Now developers come in. It can’t be as easy as reusing this unique identifier, can it? Of course not, we first have to read the documentation. Here are…

Asset Bank – Introducing Crowd Feature: “As far as we know Asset Bank is the first vendor of enterprise business software to offer crowdfunding as an option for clients who request the development of a product feature. Crowd Feature is intended for clients who want a new feature, can be flexible about time scales, and…

Jeff Schmitt – The Silent Company Killer: “We had all hit the ceiling. To our superiors, we were simply plug-and-play commodities who performed a series of tasks. They ignored our ideas, so we quit sharing them. […] That’s the silent company killer: The failure to bring out the best in employees. They focus on executing…

Jeff Jarvis – CMS as Media Salvation. Not.: “We should take inspiration from Doc Searls’ VRM (vendor relationship management) movement, figuring out how the public should manage us so we can serve them better. We should learn by example from Waze, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Craigslist, Facebook, et al and explore the value of offering platforms…

Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming: “We all – adults and children, writers and readers – have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the…