Comments for Max J. Pucher - On Writing http://maxjpucher.wordpress.com This is my life with books - Reading and Writing! Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:34:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on The Paradox of Thrift by The Fallacy of Analytical Marketing « Welcome to the Real (IT) World! http://maxjpucher.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/the-paradox-of-thrift/#comment-209 The Fallacy of Analytical Marketing « Welcome to the Real (IT) World! Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:34:14 +0000 http://maxjpucher.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-209 [...] Fallacy of Analytical Marketing While researching for a post on consumer and business spending in times of a recession, Google search made me stumble upon a sales pitch for an Analytical Marketing company with the [...] [...] Fallacy of Analytical Marketing While researching for a post on consumer and business spending in times of a recession, Google search made me stumble upon a sales pitch for an Analytical Marketing company with the [...]

]]> Comment on Divine Emergence by Karin http://maxjpucher.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/divine-emergence/#comment-199 Karin Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:12:23 +0000 http://maxjpucher.wordpress.com/?p=133#comment-199 almost a poem. I like it. almost a poem. I like it.

]]> Comment on Executive Styles – Effective or Efficient? by Max J. Pucher http://maxjpucher.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/executive-styles-effective-or-efficient/#comment-170 Max J. Pucher Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:15:52 +0000 http://maxjpucher.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/executive-styles-effective-or-efficient#comment-170 Freddie, so it is. There is no process that can help you to balance effectifeness and efficiency, except if you consider the continuous evaluation of information and adapting the current process also a (meta?)process. Your comparison with driving is a great one. I have used it a number of times too. The most important enhancements in automobile technology have been related to adaptibility: engine ignition and fuel injection computer; motoric control computer for seats, roofs, windows, lights; navigation system with real-time traffic info. For business process management we can learn a lot from these systems: 1) they usually do not overrule the user, 2) they are intuitively usable without training, 3) they use real-time measurement of goal values (time to target) in relationsship to traffic and or fuel consumption. This is what we have to take as a target in IT. The whole sheebang of BPM and BI with predictive modeling is absolute nonsense! Just imagine you would need 5 people to model your route, then create a complex data collection and statistical processing from another 10 BI experts and then if the traffic changes to have to stop, go back to the beginning and start all over again with route planning. That is the current state of IT! Freddie, so it is. There is no process that can help you to balance effectifeness and efficiency, except if you consider the continuous evaluation of information and adapting the current process also a (meta?)process.

Your comparison with driving is a great one. I have used it a number of times too. The most important enhancements in automobile technology have been related to adaptibility: engine ignition and fuel injection computer; motoric control computer for seats, roofs, windows, lights; navigation system with real-time traffic info.

For business process management we can learn a lot from these systems: 1) they usually do not overrule the user, 2) they are intuitively usable without training, 3) they use real-time measurement of goal values (time to target) in relationsship to traffic and or fuel consumption. This is what we have to take as a target in IT. The whole sheebang of BPM and BI with predictive modeling is absolute nonsense! Just imagine you would need 5 people to model your route, then create a complex data collection and statistical processing from another 10 BI experts and then if the traffic changes to have to stop, go back to the beginning and start all over again with route planning. That is the current state of IT!

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