change, typically significant change: Re-Engineering, Agile Transformation, Digital Transformation, Product Operating Model Transformation; (Change Your Organization) (more)

Martin Cagan framing of agile product development process (actually he says "it's a conceptual model, not a process"); typically requires transformation, see (2022-05-31) Cagan Moore Transformation Defined; cf Product-Led

Martin Cagan/Jon Moore: Transformation Defined. One question that we get quite frequently is, “what can a company that has transformed do better than a company that hasn’t?” (transformed to the Product Operating Model) (more)

BPR = Business Process Reengineering (more)

Hot take: a lot of "soft skills" in business are necessary only as side-effects of crummy Organization Design: structure, process, culture. Incoherent/lacking Autonomy, Mastery, And Purpose. Are you really rationalizing/rewarding a political (student council) process/culture? See also High Agency. cf Glue People (more)

aka bike-shedding - paying more attention to a topic which generates easy opinions/discussions (e.g. the color of the bike shed) rather than more challenging-but-important topics (business strategy). cf WebDesign

A frame I use in response to ultimately political and self-referential processes of decision-making. "Do you want your product development path to driven by Student Council votes?" (more)

BigCo/Big Retail. In 2024, Walmart has ~2M employees, roughy the population of England in 1500. (more)

Google, Amazon, FaceBook, Apple Computer (more)

An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of various aspects of humans within past and present societies.[1][2][3] Social anthropology and cultural anthropology[1][2][3] study the norms and values of societies. Linguistic anthropology studies how language affects social life. Biological or physical anthropology[1][2][3] studies the biological development of humans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropologist (more)

the real name of David Wong

Jason Pargin: How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind. The theme expresses itself in several ways -- primitive vs. advanced, tough vs. delicate, masculine vs. feminine, poor vs. rich, pure vs. decadent, traditional vs. weird. All of it is code for rural vs. urban. (more)

Economic Development targeted at people in Rural areas. (more)

attempts to help an area become more economically Sustainable. (more)

see (1964-11-30) The Paranoid Style In American Politics (more)

A Chinese wall or ethical wall is an information barrier protocol within an organization designed to prevent exchange of information or communication that could lead to conflicts of interest. For example, a Chinese wall may be established to separate people who make investments from those who are privy to confidential information that could improperly influence the investment decisions. Firms are generally required by law to safeguard insider information and ensure that improper trading does not occur. The term is used in journalism to describe the separation between the editorial and advertising arms.[17] The Chinese wall is regarded as breached for "advertorial" projects.[18] Separately, the term can refer to a separation between a publication's news and opinions arms. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall

The fairness doctrine of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), introduced in 1949, was a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses to both present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was—in the FCC's view—honest, equitable, and balanced. The FCC eliminated the policy in 1987 (under 2 chairmen appointed by Ronald Reagan) and removed the rule that implemented the policy from the Federal Register in August 2011.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine (more)

term I use for pure pleasurable-sound of certain writing (more)

Cory Doctorow: The health industry’s invisible hand is a fist. The US has the rich world's most expensive health care system, and that system delivers the worst health outcomes of any country in the rich world. Also, the US is unique in relying on market forces as the primary regulator of its health care system. All of these facts are related! (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Medical Roundup #3. This time around, we cover the Hanson/Alexander debates on the value of medicine, and otherwise we mostly have good news. (more)