Tag: JohnWillis
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“Feminization” and Deming
The term “feminization” is, as the kids used to say, “suss,”[^1] but this reminds me of one of the points John Willis made in his Deming work. There was a huge influx of women in corporate work/factories during WWII, and also lots of rapid process change. It was all wildly successful – proven by a…
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“So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.” // Vibes win every time. John Stuart Mill, by way of Alan Jacobs
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Did a digital obsession ‘Just Do It’ in for Nike’s John Donahoe? – Getting direct versus channel (partners, “middlemen”) right is difficult. It’s especially risky when you dramatically change it (move from selling direct to selling through middle-people, or the other way around).
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #35
20 July 2018 We move to Amsterdam in 11 days. Cloud Native Journey, 3rd edition In my capacity as an enterprise thought lord, I write up how large organizations are managing to improve their software every few years. It’s the main thing I talk with people about and “work on.” I’ve been working on a…
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http://www.parleys.com/share.html#play/514892280364bc17fc56c0b5 “What’s the point of DevOps,” a talk John Willis and I did at Devoxx 2010. Check out the slides here if you’re interested. (Source: http://www.parleys.com/)
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