Tag: design

Management Books

Idealized Design: How to Dissolve Tomorrow's Crisis...Today by Russell L. Ackoff, Jason Magidson, Herbert J. Addison
Envision your ideal solution: then, work backwards to where you are. Start-to-finish techniques and examples drawn from hundreds of companies, non-profits, and government organizations will show you how to use idealized design.

A Structured Approach to Rapid Process Development and Control by Raymond Augustin
Illustrates the use various quality tools including a cause and effect diagram and QFD (house of quality). "By adhering to the road map described here, process development teams will be able to focus their energy and efforts on doing it right the first time, thereby delivering fully developed and optimized processes more quickly."

A Call for Continued Open Standards and Net Neutrality
by Tim Berners-Lee. "The primary design principle underlying the Web’s usefulness and growth is universality. When you make a link, you can link to anything. That means people must be able to put anything on the Web, no matter what computer they have, software they use or human language they speak and regardless of whether they have a wired or wireless Internet connection. The Web should be usable by people with disabilities. It must work with any form of information, be it a document or a point of data, and information of any quality—from a silly tweet to a scholarly paper. And it should be accessible from any kind of hardware that can connect to the Internet: stationary or mobile, small screen or large."

Approaching a Minimum Viable Product
"The purpose of the MVP is to answer your most pressing question, to validate your most pressing business assumption. To create an MVP work backwards from your question, not forwards from a feature list. Invest as little as possible to answer the question because after this there will be another question and another and you'll need enough money to answer them all."

Robust Experimental Strategies for Improving Upstream Productivity by Ronald D. Snee
The solution to this problem is to use Lean principles to streamline the processes and procedures used to do the experimental work. Eliminating complexity and wasted time and effort results in experimentation being speeded up and scientists having more time to do creative work.

Signal vs. Noise
Blog on design, business, experience, simplicity, the web, culture and software development.

Management and Leadership Quotes by John Hunter
Quotes on management, business, leadership and many related topics: innovation, problems solving, change, statistics, planning, motivation, etc..