Management Consulting

Where Good Ideas Come From

February 4, 2011

I found this video to be very thought provoking. My ideas come when I’m not trying to find new ideas. As a result, I found innovation to occur during conversation, idle moments, sleep, and relaxing activities.

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Gamestorming, Solving the Problems of Tomorrow

January 20, 2011

Gamestorming, a set of best practices compiled from innovative approaches authored by Dave Grey, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo. The book contains 80 different “games” that can be played to develop new ideas, innovate, and create. My new project is to take each of these games and create a playing card or self-contained kit.

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Excel Spreadsheet Modeling Best Practices

January 6, 2011

Spreadsheets are fun. They allow a layperson to create some very powerful data models. There are limitations for extreme cases, but will suffice for an average analyst. According to IBM’s Spreadsheet Modeling Best Practice, a spreadsheet model should: Easy to use Focused on important issues Easy to understand Reliable These are my top recommendations based [...]

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Five Powerful Examples of Crowdsourcing Systems

December 16, 2010

If two heads are better than one, what about a million heads. Crowdsourcing is distributing work to thousands and millions of workers, either for payment or volunteer service. Below are some of my favorite crowd sourcing examples. Amazon Mechanical Turk – Unlike other automated computing sourcing systems, Amazon relies on human beings to perform small [...]

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Tips for Visual Note-taking

December 14, 2010

Visual note-taking or graphical recording is the processes of taking notes using images and graphics. It happens live, during the discussion. Sunni Brown is a talented visual note-taker and graphical recorder. She gives us 18 tips for more effective note-taking. You can’t write as fast as people can talk. When working with a group as [...]

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Amazing Presentations and Slide Decks by Examples

December 4, 2010

Learning by example is one of the best ways to become good at something. It’s one thing to teach basic concepts and principles, it’s another to actually do it. One of my newly favorite sites is note&point. It’s a wonderfully curated collection of powerful slides and presentations on a number of subjects. Not all suits [...]

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Book Review: Slide:ology

December 2, 2010

This is a relatively old book but I suspect it’ll be on my list of all time favorites. Nancy has taken all that’s been wrong with corporate presentations and summarized it into one short but very comprehensive 275 page book. Although I’ve been on a mission to read more digital books on my iPad, I [...]

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Every Last Detail Counts

November 23, 2010

Most people do a task just to check it off a list. A few, the exceptional, take this to a whole new level. For them, excellence is making sure every last detail is perfect. It is a mastery of one’s trade. This can be evidenced by an American Express Commercial with Conan O’Brian. He travels [...]

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