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Solomon Associates created a methodology to measure the performance of the oil companies: Comparative Performance Analysis (CPA), started in 1980. Their registered motto is: measure, manage, maximize. One of the essential concepts is that only through this comparison process you can truly identify the areas where your facilities could improve. The main oil companies of … Read more
You organize daily calls and you try to make them effective and efficient. Define the purpose and clear ground rules help to complete them on these 15 minutes. Objective: What did we do yesterday/today, What will we do today/tomorrow, what is blocking us? Agenda: We will use the action list to drive our agenda. Ground-rules: … Read more
POLDAT contains the basic aspects of a contract, independently of the nature, environment or magnitude. It’s an useful tool to enable everybody to work on all aspects of the initiative. For major initiatives, all is included and nobody forgets any of these aspects. For small initiatives, the use of POLDAT as guidance for the definition … Read more
A memorandum is a note, document or other communication that helps the memory by recording events or observations on a topic, such as may be used in a business office. In the matrix organization where I work is an useful tool for communication, everybody work in their own silos, and sometimes they do not understand … Read more
Some basic concepts for my poor memory: 1.- Support vector machine (SVM) SVM is the concept behind so many of the machine learning solutions the market offers. You want to identify patterns, classify unstructured data, discover root causes, optimize forecasts… so many of the code written to do that implements this model. 2.-Digital Twins The … Read more
I learned about the Cyclically Adjusted PE Ratio (CAPE Ratio) or Shriller ratio, and I found that in September 2016 this was 26,57. Looking into more data, I found this chart with data since 1880:
A debt is a debt, it’s something you acquire to be able to acquire other capabilities or values in a market, product, behavior… Every company have this type of debt with more or less exposure. This debt can be excess of organization (typically a big company) or lack of organization (commonly a start-up). Companies acquire … Read more
I want to remind these figures for future and check how they evolve.
Business leaders who adopt the attitude that anyone is replaceable, thinking they can simply hire someone with a greater skill set or someone with a more prestigious pedigree, are fooling themselves. There are some employees that cannot be replaced, and that when they disappear from the company, they carry with them value that simply cannot … Read more
I was recently asked about how to plan an strategic alignment between business and IT initiatives, where there should be a focus on the: Follow-up and efficiency of projects initiatives. Track of benefits realization. Portfolio plan where we all can understand the dependencies of the IT projects and impacts on business. Improve the level of … Read more