Category Archives: Business

A Team Who Meshes Together

By zakiwarfel | Published: February 22, 2007
Business Week has an interesting article titled Why Firing Doesn’t Always Help. A group of researchers from the Harvard Business School was researching a new heart surgery technique. What was particularly interesting is what they found when looking at the performance of the different teams. In looking for what might explain the differences in performance [...]
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The Laws of Simplicity – Law 2: Organize

By zakiwarfel | Published: February 7, 2007
Maeda’s second law in The Laws of Simplicity that of Organize is based on a principle he calls SLIP – Sort Label Integrate Prioritize. It’s kind of like an extended version of a card sort. Organization makes a system of many appear fewer. He begins the second law with something we can all relate to [...]
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Prototyping and Simulation Software

By zakiwarfel | Published: February 1, 2007
There’s an interesting article making its way around Digg today – Development In the Fast Lane. While there’s some very interesting concepts in the article, several of which I agree, there are a number of blantant errors, or misguidings, which I simply cannot help but point out. After Citibank’s mortgage division relaunched that retail application [...]
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