The structure of your organization limits or enables your ability to deliver and meet your customer needs. If you are siloed across the organization and the products are built within the silos then that is what your customer encounters. The customer will feel the walls and boundaries as they interact with your company. This stilted… Continue reading Your organizational structure defines your project deliveries
Month: March 2019
Design for less plastic going to the transfer station
I have no good solutions for plastic. We have a lot of plastic. There is a little reuse of the containers but not enough to matter. I have yet to see a good version of something useful. I once saw the ability to cut bottles into long strings of plastic but it was too labor… Continue reading Design for less plastic going to the transfer station
Design for less at the transfer station (aka the dump)
I have been fascinated by the idea of how to have a minimum impact outside of my property. I am far from net zero but I have been exploring basic things I can do. My transfer station splits things into: garbage, paper, card board, 1-2 plastics, 3-7 plastics, metal, and glass. There are others but… Continue reading Design for less at the transfer station (aka the dump)
Human error in plane crash was the designers’
25 years ago I studied about the designs of planes that made the state of the plane opaque to pilots. The user interface was so bad that the pilots fought with the autopilot and the plane would flip over. Here we are 25 years later and I am reading articles where people are blaming pilots… Continue reading Human error in plane crash was the designers’
When we ask people to estimate their performance …
Ignorance breeds confidence in all of us. Research was done on many college students. It was found that the more ignorant you were on a topic the less ability you have in comparing your abilities with others. So much so that typically people who score in the bottom 25% will say that they believe that… Continue reading When we ask people to estimate their performance …