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Dynamic capabilities in personal career planning
Have you ever been asked where you will be in five years? Or what is your career plan? With the pace of change in the world being as rapid as it is, and with no signs of it slowing down, these...
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The Confucian roots of Lean
Lean is still often seen as a set of tools to eliminate waste in processes, but the understanding that Lean is actually much deeper than that is spreading. However, even in the Lean community, the...
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Why LEGO Universe failed and can Minifigures Online succeed?
LEGO has been interested in online gaming for a long time. It first ventured into online gaming in 2005, when it commissioned work on LEGO Universe (released in 2010, shut down in 2012), and it has two...
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Working with attachments and video in Confluence wiki
Atlassian’s Confluence is a nice wiki platform, but it can be confusing at times when working with attachments and video. Of course, as a wiki platform, the whole point is to have the content on wiki...
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Why activity streams should not be filtered
Activity streams have established their position at the core of the social intranet. Some even consider them as the replacement of email. However, this is a dangerous interpretation to make, because...
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5 obstacles to a culture of transparency and social business
Becoming a social business and achieving the benefits associated with it from improved communication and serendipity are quite valuable in the innovation-oriented competitive situation faced by many...
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Why social collaboration is crucial for Lean in the West
Most Lean implementations fail. We can look into this from many points of view, but in general I find the reason to be rather simple. Most companies, and most individuals within them, do not have the...
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Looking for new opportunities to innovate, develop, improve!
So, this is it. The company I have worked for the past 8 years, Fastems, is restructuring, and as my job has been to innovate, develop, and improve instead of leading daily operations, my position is...
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Continuous improvement is about small steps: case LinkedIn
I am currently taking Kevin Werbach’s course on gamification on Coursera and in one of the lectures there he presented a real gem of continuous improvement: LinkedIn’s profile completeness meter....
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You can’t afford to be honest with your customers
You can’t afford to be honest with your customers, you will surely run out of business if you are. If you were honest with your customers, you would have to pay penalties for delays instead of making...
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Times change, can your company change with them?
The world is changing at an increasing pace. There is even some evidence pointing to that, such as the 2012 Innosight study that discovered that the lifespans of top companies have shrunk considerably...
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How to change corporate culture to be more open to change
Change management is hard. As a general rule, change adoption rarely, if ever, happens overnight by simply adding a new process or technology and holding a few training sessions. In a recent blog post...
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Finland is building and dismantling its data infrastructure
There is an intriguing paradox going on in Finland. The country is hoping to become a key data center location in the digital world (and not without merit), but at the same time the infrastructure...
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What are we really trying to teach children via computing?
Teaching children computing is all the hype nowadays. The forerunners, such as the UK and Estonia, have already started, with other countries, such as Finland and South Korea, not far behind. The...
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On the failed promise of social collaboration: reply to Boyd
Stowe Boyd recently blogged about what he calls the failed promise of social collaboration, where social collaboration tools in fact reduce productivity and do not enhance it. However, what he...
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Toys-to-life games and toys: from Skylanders to LEGO Fusion
Toys-to-life refers to a relatively new category of games and related toys that was born as recently as 2011 with the release of Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure. It has been a spectacularly successful...
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Lean is more than continuous improvement of existing process
There are probably quite a few misconceptions regarding Lean, and this state is not made any easier by the fact that there are many ways to apply Lean nor by the fact that many ideologies have borrowed...
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Have to and cannot, the most misused phrases in business?
Simplification is often useful in life, but taking a very straightforward approach can also prevent us from seeing and discussing many of the options that are available. In practice, this often boils...
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Having a large order backlog is actually not a good thing
One of my favorite brain teasers when giving Lean training is the question of whether having a large order backlog is a good thing or not. It is rare for anyone to immediately say that it is a bad...
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Stories are an essential instrument for change leadership
There is an apocryphal story of how President Kennedy visited NASA and came across a janitor who was cleaning the floors. The President asked him what his job was, and the janitor confidently replied:...
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