Tag: modularized

My friend loves to read the last chapter of a book first. This she tells me, allows her to understand how the author ties the knots together and if they are interesting, she then goes through the other chapters. While personally I like to read the books in a linear fashion, I do see the merits in this non-linear reading pattern. One obvious reason to her of course is that if the ending is not to her liking then she quickly browses through the book …

I walked into a customer business review meeting and was quite surprised to see our scorecard results on cost were lower than my expectation. The disappointment was because we had made significant progress on quality but what we had not taken notice was the significant cost that we incurred in doing so. If you are a supplier in the server industry, then I’m sure that you have heard this feedback from your customers: “How do we reduce cost, increase quality, and time to deploy all …