One of the important challenges that App developers have faced is discoverability. How does one person actually find your app in a crowded app store? Actually, how does any content producer (writer, musician, etc) get their content found… It is a big challenge and there are strategies that can be Read more…
I was an early fan of Mass Customization back in the nineties – maybe because I read a few of books…Future Shock by Alvin Toffler, Future Perfect by Stan Davis and of course Mass Customization by Joe Pine. That, of course, qualifies me as an expert…Hey, they weren’t short books…I Read more…
Why does so much stuff seem to slip through the cracks? Is it because stuff is slippery or is it because there are so many cracks. I suspect that it is a little bit of both. Most systems have both known and unknown cracks. Manual processes or overrides try to Read more…
Where did I actually save that file? Did I actually just lose two hours worth of work? It has to be here somewhere… Don’t tell me that I just overwrite my latest changes with the version from a week ago…. No where is that backup? What version should I restore? Read more…
Waiting is inevitable… Somewhere along the line, you will end up waiting. Waiting for something. Waiting for something. Waiting for information to be shared with you. Waiting for something to be discovered. Waiting for something to go away. But there are a lot variables involved in waiting. If you added Read more…
The proliferation of communication channels does not necessarily streamline communication or understanding. Limiting your communication channels may actually do more to streamline than adding a new one. But the human temptation to move to something new is always pretty strong as new technologies and generations emerge. The advocates of each Read more…
A long time ago, my father told me something like this, “the key to good leadership is figuring what information is the truth and acting on it.” This was excellent advice that still influences me to this day. The challenge now is that information moves faster and truth is probably Read more…
The more information that you generate, the more information that you have to track. It is a cycle, but I am not sure that it is virtuous. Yet, it is hard to argue against. More information by definition helps you make more informed decisions. And worse than that, people look Read more…
The old jobs to be done theory… Clayton Christensen made it famous, but Tony Ulwick came up with the framework. The basic idea is that you hire products to do jobs for you. You might hire a product to play recorded music for you. You might have hired a phonograph Read more…
The problem with relational databases, as in life, is that relationships can be complicated. One to one, many to one, one to many…There are many different ways to structure data and the relationship between data. Most of the time, this structure reflects a version if reality pretty well…The problem comes Read more…