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The Air Force has revoked more than 226 Air Force instructions deemed unnecessary or outdated over the past year as part of its ongoing effort to get rid of so-called “queep.”
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October 4, 2018 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
Drayton had a reputation as an around-the-clock worker, but one with a creative streak. “Much of what he did was very innovative and very controversial,” Gamse says. “A lot of times my first reaction would be, ‘This is crazy. This has no chance of happening!’...
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June 16, 2018 Bruce Benson
Innovation
Sometimes doing the opposite works better than doing the obvious.
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April 19, 2018 Bruce Benson
Innovation
By continuing to try and understand all objections we unexpectedly won over many additional people.
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April 14, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Are your planning documents adding value or would they add more value by not being done?
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April 6, 2018 Bruce Benson
Planning
An expert is someone who has mastery of current knowledge, not of future knowledge.
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March 22, 2018 Bruce Benson
Innovation
I always figured that if I worked my way up far enough I'd find a senior manager who would immediately get it, recognize that what was going on was a problem, and would then help to fix it. But it never happened that way.
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March 8, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
The 2.6 billion-rouble ($45 million) satellite — the Meteor M — was launched last month from Vostochny, with Roscosmos losing contact with it shortly after. It then emerged that the rocket carrying the satellite had been programmed with the wrong coordinates, and had instead been...
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March 3, 2018 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
“It’s almost like a dark state going on in Tallahassee,” said Rep. Carlos Trujillo, a Miami Republican and critic of the “culture of Tallahassee that compromises the process” because “priorities are shaped not on policy, but on relationships. Code of silence is breaking on Tallahassee’s...
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February 22, 2018 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
The most important and productive new ideas come from B-teams comprised of employees who don’t always have to be the smartest people in the room.
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January 5, 2018 Bruce Benson
Team Management
I remember the first time it happened to me. I’d been an agile developer for less than a year. We were having our morning stand-up, and something felt off. The room was oddly crowded. The scrum master was having a heated discussion with a developer....
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October 25, 2017 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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It’s a truism in economics that most technological change in any industry takes place not during the boom times, but during the downturns, when firms have to be clever to survive. The Atlantic:This Is the Way the College ‘Bubble’ Ends, July 26, 2017. I’ve often...
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August 17, 2017 Bruce Benson
Change Management
It takes three elements: the right people, the right timing, and the right way? Not so fast.
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April 27, 2017 Bruce Benson
Innovation
IS researchers have argued enterprise information systems should not be built in a top-down manner but instead facilitate bottom-up innovation. Successful implementation of enterprise wide systems (such as enterprise architecture) will increasingly require negotiation and dialog rather than the imposition of ideas from central IT....
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March 29, 2017 Bruce Benson
Innovation
1 percent of Baby Boomers claimed to be vegetarian, which then progressed to 4 percent of Gen X’ers saying no to meat, and onward to an even bigger bump with roughly 12 percent of Millennials saying they are total vegetarians.
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November 2, 2016 Bruce Benson
Requirements Management