In order to be effective in your business, you need to understand what you do and how you and your team and organization fit into the flow of the business. In other words: “What am I doing and why am I here?” This information is needed when you join a business team in order to […]
Read more "What Are We Doing Here: Business Modeling"Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a term that gets tossed around a lot in the software world. What does it really mean? If we only look at the definition of the words individually, it looks like this: Minimum: noun – “the least or smallest amount or quantity possible, attainable, or required.” Viable: adjective – “capable […]
Read more "Minimum Viable What?"We’ve all been there: the elephant is in the room; there is something important that you are feeling should be said; some situation arises which is uncomfortable and might even feel emotional or awkwardly sensitive. Too often, people in these circumstances fall into the trap of the Fool’s Choice, a term used by the authors […]
Read more "The Fool’s Choice"One thing I love about studying Agile and Lean methodologies is that we find things that might appear to be non-intuitive at first, but then when looking at the big picture we see that our initial thoughts were sometimes wrong. For example, one might assume intuitively that if I can get my job done as […]
Read more "The Penny Game"In 1984, my biggest concerns were getting my homework done, playing music, going on a bike ride, and girls. I had no interest in “business”. I had an inquisitive mind and loved numbers and math, but I was also very idealistic. To my teenage sized responsibilities and sensibilities, “business” was about money and greed, and […]
Read more "The Goal"The 4th Industrial Revolution will be built on the backbone of the 3rd Industrial Revolution, obviously. The rise of “no code” and other technological enablers, together with the event of the global pandemic of Covid-19, will catalyze the Fourth Industrial Revolution. A series of three technological and business revolutions have impacted humanity since the 1700’s, […]
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Erik Major 