1$ & 5 minutes technique

“I need 1 dollar and 5 minutes of your time, please if you want to support me let me know” This is the sign I posted on Facebook to try to attract people to this Kickstarter campaign I’m supporting. Once people let a comment on the entry I was sending an individual e-mail explaining the … Read more

A mobile Application for avoiding orthographic errors

Orthographic errors are more and more usual. I see them everywhere, specially in social places (Facebook, twitter, Whats-app…). If you add that the person is using the mobile phone, then, the orthographic fault is certainly common. Turn actions into games is a proven tactic to promote habits. So I imagine an application installed your mobile, … Read more

I do not recommend SharePoint

I’m sorry Mr Microsoft but I cannot recommend SharePoint. I have been seeing during the last 3 years major companies investing millions of dollars on SharePoint farms, SharePoint migration projects, tonnes of effort to go… where? …Nowhere… They have the best sales people I have seen, using the nice story that SharePoint is the natural … Read more

Shark tank for project management

Five successful business people in the same room with a video camera, entrepreneurs with their projects come in and face the challenge to convince with its project and get a deal with some of them. Exposure, this is the first thought that came to my mind the first time I watched this show. You take … Read more

Tim Woods

I have just learned this mnemonic to remind the eight kinds of waste defined in Lean Six Sigma: “TIM WOODS”. T          Transport: Moving people, products & information I          Inventory: Storing parts, pieces, documentation ahead of requirements M         Motion: Bending, turning, reaching, lifting W         Waiting:  For parts, information, instructions, equipment O          Overproduction:  Making more than is … Read more

Machiavelli, The Prince

I have just finished this book. So many people recommend The Art of War as an excellent reference for learning about the strategic and tactician principles. This book makes something similar at leadership and management point of view. As human behavior has really not changed so much on some basic behaviors, these lessons are still … Read more

AspenTech MES

I did not know that AspenTech have their own MES: aspenONE Manufacturing Execution Systems. The basis of all these solutions is Web.21, a web-based solution for managing the processes and data from an InfoPlus.21 database. It is now an integrated Microsoft-based platform.