A lot of my work, lately, has focused on helping to rescue sucky internal employee communications programs. The general reasons for the almost perpetual suckiness of internal communications is the abject neglect of most of the programs. This can take the form of budgetary neglect: just because you hired someone to manage it, doesn’t mean […]
Was Henry Ford the world’s first Chief Product Officer? The assembly line he created at Ford Motor Company, which reduced the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to two hours and 30 minutes, was a radical shift from American manufacturing practices of the early 1920s. For the first time, […]
It was at a post-mortem — one of those post-mortems, after things had gone horribly wrong — that the idea behind a new project management tool from Sensei Labs was born. The project gone awry had actually happened within Klick, the independent health agency that owns Sensei Labs, which develops workplace management software. Besides looking […]
Remember going to the carnival when you were younger, and playing the Whac-a-Mole game? There’s the smell of popcorn in the air, the whoosh and noise of the rides, loud music, laughter, and all kinds of other distractions, all while you focused on pounding the heck out of little plastic critters with a big rubber […]
