Why the quality of requirements cannot fully be controlled at design time?
Quality of a service (such as, e.g., a flight) correlates negatively with the gap between what you expect from the service and what you experience through that service [1]. The greater the gap, the...
View ArticleWhat to look for in a process or workflow specification?
If you work with requirements, you have to work with descriptions of processes or workflows which satisfy requirements. What makes a relevant workflow specification or model? Let’s start with the...
View ArticleNew Concept Networks – A counterintuitive tool for faster innovation
Innovation stands for various actions we take to create something new and useful. To prove novelty, we have to explain how the outcomes of all that effort – the invention – relates, and specifically...
View ArticleThe Value of Disagreement over New Ideas
Loads or Shipments? Truckload or LTL? “Why is it a problem to have stops? Stops are common. We should be able to add them to a live load.” He was insisting. This made no sense to me. “You mean a...
View ArticleGeneric vs Specific Management Frameworks
A management framework identifies an opportunity or problem in the coordination of people within a single, or across organizations, and proposes (i) how to think about that opportunity/problem, (ii)...
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Take the money, calm down, and wait
Three charts, data over the past 28 days: credit risk, cost of money, and media perceptions of economic uncertainty in this crisis. The hope is that the second eventually pulls down the left and right...
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Credit card spend as another signal of ongoing sharp drop in consumer spending
Credit card payment statistics (from Denmark in this case) are an easy illustration of changes in what is being purchased, and what isn’t at this time. These aggregates bundle together probably...
View ArticleStructure of a Specific Management Framework
A management framework is specific when it is designed for use in one organization; or if it crosses boundaries of several, then only in those organizations. It cannot be moved to a different...
View ArticleTwo limitations of abstract argumentation frameworks: (i) irrelevance is...
I often review or otherwise comment on research publications which build on abstract argumentation frameworks to develop some novel formalism, typically for modeling specific kinds of decisions. By...
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