by Dwayne Phillips An Apple prototype is found in a bar. A stream of events ensue where no one seems to do the right thing. That is too bad. This story won’t seem to die. A basic timeline: Person #1 carries an Apple iPhone prototype out of the facility Person #1 loses the prototype in […]
Entries Tagged as 'Problems'
The iPhone Prototype
April 29th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Apple · People · Privacy · Problems
Right Problem, Wrong Method, or was It the Other Way Around?
January 28th, 2010 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips There are problems and there are methods of solving them. Given these two items, there are four cases that can define projects. Let’s consider the cases and how to avoid the more painful ones. In some of my books I have written about projects that went astray, i.e. they were disasters with […]
Tags: General Systems Thinking · Management · Problems
Solving Someone Else’s Problems
December 7th, 2009 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips I solve problems. Sometimes that is my job, but often it comes away from the job. I say “no” more often than in the past. There are several reasons with a major one being that only when some people experience the pain of a problem do they stop creating problems for themselves. […]