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	<description>Production from a different viewpoint</description>
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		<title>Upper Mismanagement and Short-sightedness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very interesting article on the The New Republic blames problems in the US manufacturing sector on most CEOs coming from a finance background and the  finance-oriented Business Schools.
the conglomerate structure forced managers to think of their firms as  a collection of financial assets, where the goal was to allocate  capital efficiently, rather than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://billpapa.org/ergoduction/2010/02/23/upper-mismanagement-and-short-sightedness/</link>
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		<title>Software, structure, evolution?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The structure of systems and their evolution is an often overlooked aspect of a product/organization, but it can be terribly important even in the &#8220;malleable&#8221; field of software.In a working paper by MacCormack et al. we are able to see the structure of many software products and see how the &#8220;core&#8221; evolves over time.
These issues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://billpapa.org/ergoduction/2010/02/15/software-structure-evolution/</link>
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		<title>Ride the wave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dilbert gives us the reason why all &#8220;n Habits of Highly Successful People&#8221; and &#8220;In search of Excellence&#8221; type books are useless in one strip!


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		<link>http://billpapa.org/ergoduction/2009/10/23/ride-the-wave/</link>
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		<title>Management Innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last month I&#8217;ve been reading two books: an excellent (Origin of Wealth), and a flawed one. I&#8217;m going to write some notes on the latter: The Future of Management by Gary Hamel.

Hamel attempts to turn management on its head and following Gibson&#8217;s advice that &#8220;the future is already here – it&#8217;s just not evenly distributed&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://billpapa.org/ergoduction/2009/10/17/management-innovation/</link>
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		<title>Business Scenarios for Cross-functional Communication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[iSixSigma features an interesting article on communicating processes through Business Scenarios. As people are pattern-matching, narrative-absorbing animals, the tool is very effective:
If you start with the simplest scenario where nothing goes wrong (sunny-day) then you can rapidly walk the whole process. You can add complexity as you need to&#8230;.This approach really opens up the discussion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://billpapa.org/ergoduction/2009/09/28/business-scenarios-for-cross-functional-communication/</link>
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		<title>Tough love vs management innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I heard about France Telecom&#8217;s nth employee suicide, while reading Industry Week&#8217;s article on innovative management approaches by Nucor and Costco. On the one hand you have 80s style corporate re-organization of a behemoth, which takes its toll on employees brought up on french public-sector work ethic. On the other hand, you have two companies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://billpapa.org/ergoduction/2009/09/13/tough-love-vs-management-innovation/</link>
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		<title>From the Peak to&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many articles are written these days to comment on GM&#8217;s bankruptcy. One of the most insightful so far is the one by Hamel, were he reflects on the reasons that cause great companies (the kind that case studies are written for), to turn mediocre or worse. Hamel states three reasons:

    Gravity wins
 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://billpapa.org/ergoduction/2009/06/02/from-the-peak-to/</link>
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		<title>Kind of Innovative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert D. Austin and Carl StÃ¸rmer draw business lessons from Miles&#8217; &#8220;Kind of Blue&#8221; record, on how to escape the plateau of success and innovate once more, a feat very difficult for both musicians and companies: just think how many groups are worth following past their third record. In order to innovate you have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://billpapa.org/ergoduction/2009/04/13/kind-of-innovative/</link>
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		<title>ABC, Toyota and Goals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While browsing around in my library, I found an old article from Strategy &#38; Business, which documents the feud between ABC-Balanced Scorecard guru R.S. Kaplan and Prof. Johnson, who believes that following such systems is a way to failure.

So, should management be based on financial measurements and indicators, or on extensive, detailed knowledge of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://billpapa.org/ergoduction/2009/04/08/abc-toyota-and-goals/</link>
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		<title>Capturing Value in the Chain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Via Noise Between Stations) A very interesting analysis of how value is created and captured in the iPod supply chain. They take a 30GB 5th Generation iPod ($300 price tag when the article was written), and take it apart. Then, they trace the value created by each component and/or assembly. As predicted, Apple gets most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://billpapa.org/ergoduction/2009/02/24/capturing-value-in-the-chain/</link>
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