System Reliability

Design Thinking the Climate Change Challenge

Crowdsourcing, ideation, and design thinking about a challenging problem ...

... "Living Climate Change is a place where the most defining challenge of our time is explored through design thinking. " ...

Via Living Climate Change: Actionable Ideas

Project Design: Use the Crowd

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... understand what new features to add to your product? Or, need help with prioritizing product capabilities? Consider using the crowd to source your ideas and pulse of the market. ...

... "Thousands of times a day, all over the world, ordinary people remark, in restaurants or offices or living rooms, You know what cellphones really need ... " ...

Via New York Times: Crowdsourcing from Twitterland

Outsourcing Control

Boeing takes risks with design and manufacturing outsourcing across its integrated supply chain for the 787 Dreamliner and loses control of the process. Regardless of the industry space, manufacturing or information technology, management controls are necessary on the outsourced processes - clear visibility and accountability should not be compromised. Boeing is making adjustments. ...

... "The company’s chief, W. James McNerney Jr., concedes that Boeing lost control of the process by farming out more design and production work than ever and not keeping close tabs on suppliers. He says the company is retaking control. " ...

Via New York Times: 787 Dreamliner

The Project Design Task

Most of our projects have some type of design task in them. But what is an exceptional design? Here are some principles to anchor your thoughts. Think - usable, resilient, conscientious (or sustainable). Read on. ...

... "The best designs influence and enhance many aspects of our lives through interaction with those products/services - from our buying experience, to the delivery and packaging, to installation and use, to other products/services that complement it, to customer support and maintenance, all the way through end-of-life and disposal. " ...

Via KiteTail: Principles of Good Design

Early Controls Increase Project Efficiency

Build in a brief compliance review early in an IT project to avoid costly rework later in the execution phase. ...

... "As stakeholders in the management of risk, when corporate legal departments provide their input in advance, i.e., during the design phase of an IT project, the resulting controls can be most cost-effectively designed and deployed. " ...

Via Metropolitan Corporate Counsel: Compliance Function

Design's Differentiating Power

HP's design practice helps the company to differentiate itself in the marketplace and be more efficient by leveraging the talent across its business lines. ...

... "Hurd gave his backing to Lucente's plan to ramp up the companywide design practice. These days, conventional wisdom holds that good design is indispensable for differentiating products, building brands, and forging new markets. " ...

Via Fast Company: Design's Role in HP Transformation

Organizing for Business Intelligence

Nice reference matrix on segmenting business intelligence needs to enable creation of targeted solutions. ...

... "Table 1 illustrates the characteristics and differences between strategic, tactical and operational BI. The business focus, users involved, currency of the data, and even the types of data used differ significantly, depending on the type of business intelligence. " ...

Via B-Eye: Operational Business Intelligence

Green Data Center Expansion

IBM expands data center, emphasizing energy efficiency and green design. IT can play a role in reducing an enterprise's carbon footprint and energy costs. ...

... "IBM plans to install high density computing systems utilizing virtualization technology, along with its Cool Blue portfolio of energy efficient power and cooling technologies. These technologies, in conjunction with the energy efficient design and construction, will allow IBM to reduce its overall carbon footprint compared to standard data centers, and lessen the impact to the environment. " ...

Via IBM: IBM to Build $86 Million Energy Efficient Data Center in Boulder as Part of Project Big Green

End-to-End Process Design: ERP Implementation Approach

Ergon Energy implements ERP to replace collection of legacy systems, leveraging new business process design. ...

... "We started off with business processes and designed 19 new end-to-end processes that would conduct all the business transactions within the footprint of the ERP. " ...

Via Australian IT: Utility Industry ERP Implementation