Archive for the 'jim mccarthy' Category

Emergent versus detergent structures

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

A few more thoughts following on from Clips on Slime which was well received.
When Mike and I are asking questions about a firm, we try to establish what kind of organism they are looking to build. Many firms are pulled in two directions: on the one hand, there is recognition that new ideas are the [...]

The point about process is…

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Surely, the point about process is that it should free human beings from work of low added value to allow them to do the high value stuff which machines cannot do? If we are able to structure activities to become almost mechanical and mostly invariant, why would we bind people in teams to be governed [...]

Process of Innovation