This summer i’m in the business simulation class offered by CU Boulder. The class utilizes the Marketplace Simulation at marketplace-simulation.com. So far we’ve gone through 4 quarters worth of decisions and I have been very impressed with the simulation. Basically students work in teams to run a computer manufacturing company. We have to manage all [...]
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Peter Drucker, “The Effective Executive”
May 18th, 2010
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Peter Drucker, “The Effective Executive”. I mentioned that I had read this book over the weekend so I thought I’d make a blog post about it…a concise and less than 1 hour blog post. First of all Drucker wrote the book in 1965 when the knowledge workers were beginning to make their move on the [...]
Marketing Windows 7
August 4th, 2009
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A quick note on how Microsoft has tried to market Windows7 differently from Vista, in an attempt to avoid the same release failure that Vista had. With my recent computer build, that is still being built due to a fautly motherboard needing to be RMA’d, I ran into the new OS by Microsoft due [...]
PDCA – Deming reintroduces Shewhart’s Plan-Do-Check-Act
June 3rd, 2009
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PDCA stands for Plan-Do-Check-Act. It is a cycle originally created by Walter Shewhart in 1930′s, but it wasn’t popularized until Deming began using it to model continuous quality improvement processes in business. What does it mean? Plan – Based on data recieved from marketing and other efforts to understand a particular “thing”, decide what it [...]
The Gift of Mowing
June 3rd, 2009
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Some men would agree, that there is an unspoken competition about who will have the best, most coveted lawn on the block. I have even heard of one man, that would mow his lawn every other day so that it would always have that fresh cut looks with the lawn mower tracks in perfect linear [...]
