Systems Thinking Predicts Economic Collapse in 21st Century
According to some researchers, it’s the end of the world as we know it – sometime this century, in fact. Economists and policy researchers have actually envisioned it coming for about three centuries,...
View ArticleNew Quality Manager for Obama: Zients replaces Killefer
In his weekly radio address, President Obama announced today a renewed intent to cut wasteful spending, and the upcoming announcement of even more decisive cuts. He also noted the appointment of...
View ArticleLean Thinking and Health Care Reform
Today’s Op-Ed section in the Washington Post has a piece by Philip K. Howard called “Health Reform’s Taboo Topic”. The problem? Health-care reform is bogged down because none of the bills before...
View ArticleAdding a Little STEAM: On Risk, Failure, and the Quality of Higher Education
(Image Credit: Doug Buckley of http://hyperactive.to) On Thursday, Morgan and I attended the first meeting of the Congressional STEAM Caucus on Capitol Hill… “a briefing on changing the vocabulary of...
View ArticleFree Speech in the Internet of Things (IoT)
IF YOUR TOASTER COULD TALK, IT WOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH. Image Credit: from “Reclaim Democracy” at http://reclaimdemocracy.org/who-are-citizens-united/ By the end of 2016, Gartner estimates...
View ArticleA New American Competitiveness, Fueled by Relative Innovation
Innovation is in the eye of the beholder. The solution offered by the American Competitiveness Initiative focuses on absolute innovation, but does not consider relative innovation. Catalyzing relative...
View ArticleA Quality Manager for Obama
President-Elect Obama has hired a quality manager, and her name is Nancy Killefer. She is the newly appointed “Chief Performance Officer” whose mandate is to manage budget reforms while eliminating...
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