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Create Job Opportunities with PIE We hear Jobs, Jobs, Jobs; we need jobs. This blog brings to the table a view that we must have a proactive approach to creation of jobs. Drawing on Metaphors from M21C thinking, the concept of planting PIE Teams is a proactive way to get people thinking about the primary functions that create Things and therefore Jobs. The graphic expresses this with emphasis on hands and fingers. A new metaphor for the six hat team is presented using the fingers of a hand and the arm. MORE >>> |
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Wanted: Economy with a motor ... The graphic shows this headline along with two views of PIE Team and the workforce by skill level. In the report "Tough Choices or Tough Times" the graphic "Profile of Successful U. S. Firms in the Future" shown below right. A modified version is developed with relative salaries for various levels of the workforce; it also has the creative work emphasized. It depicts a diamond area of creative work which is very similar to the PIE Team as discussed in several blogs. A modified version shows the profile of work types also with relative salaries. In addition to Creative Work, a chart shows Operations & Maintenance Work, Outsourced Work and routine work that has been Automated. MORE >>> |
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Quality - White Gloves ...
This blog brings the concept of Quality to
bear on the PIE Team. “Quality comes from Ownership with
Integrity and appropriate Resources in a healthy Paradigm – lhb.”
Note, that an “O” and an “I” make a “Q”. Starting with
Ownership, Integrity and appropriate Resources; it was realized that you could have Ownership, Integrity and
appropriate Resources, but not necessarily have Quality. When you
have an environment that is at cross purposes and discourage things
working compatible together, that is not a healthy Paradigm and
Quality suffers. The Quality Hand must be vested with competence and
authority to over ride poor decisions made by the PIE Team and
others. In other
words Safety and Quality must not be pre-empted by schedule or
profit drivers.
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Rudder For Future Economy ...
Our economy has been experiencing a rambling path similar to the one that the Bismarck ship experienced during WW-II when a torpedo disabled the steering mechanism.
This
blog expands on previous thinking of the Entrepreneurial Productive
Innovative Engine (PIE) Framework http://www.bcswonline.com/PIE/index.html to
include the concept of the hands of the PIE team clasped together as
a rudder for steering the future economy.
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Design Funnel ... Fish-Hook-Fry Metaphors .... Research and study using the latest versions of Microsoft Expression Studio and Visual Studio, I have been impressed with how they have treated the design and development area. In the book “Dynamic Prototyping with Sketch Flow in Expression Blend” by Chris Bernard & Sara Summers QUE c 2010 there is a nice chart shown here that does a good job of presenting the gap between design and development. It fits well with other thinking as discussed in blogs at http://www.bcswonline.com/blog/index.html. MORE>>> |
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Innovation …. Customer The ISCORPIO Metaphor in M21C describes eight petals related to various aspects of a Business; this topic addresses two of the petals, Innovation and Customer. Looking at the ISCORPIO diagram the left pointing (West) facet represents Innovation and the right pointing facet (East) represents the Customer. These are fundamental to a successful business that builds competitive services and wares. As discussed in other entries of this blog, the Customer is the most important since they are the ones that pay money for the solutions of businesses. To stay competitive, Innovation becomes the primary focus. MORE >>> |
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PIE? …or...
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What Grows an Economy? …. PIE? ….. X-Factor?
The
“What Grows an Economy?” article in the November 22, 2010
Forbes issue by Rich Karlgaard has some very interesting
information which I find gives validity to the concept of planting
PIE Teams. I suggest if we want to solve the problem of Jobs
and a slow economy, we need policies that encourage PIE Teams to
experiment with creating new products and services that have the
potential for growing into big companies i.e., X factor
effect. The concept of Entrepreneur Productive Innovative Engine
(PIE) Teams is that they are planted in Schools, Jobless Networks
and within Industry as potential spin offs that will get those
participating into a frame of mind of creating products and services
that will result in new jobs. In Industry these Teams may be called
"Skunk Works."
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