MishTalk

MARCH 14, 2015

At the peak of streetcar travel in the mid-1920s, some 800 streetcars covering 200 miles of track carried 97 million passenger trips a year. Tucson''s $196 million Sun Link Streetcar Project, recently named the Public Works Project of the Year by the American Public Works Association, will operate on a 3.9-mile

Transportation 28

Transportation Operations Wireless Construction 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Autonomous vehicles will profoundly affect insurance, road design and construction, traffic management, taxi and limousine services, the materials and safety equipment in vehicles, and asset ownership (who needs to own a car when one can simply be summoned from the most efficient location?). traffic deaths.

Transportation 28

Transportation Software System Efficiency 28

Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

People are willing to travel for expertise, but they’re not willing to travel to hire a consultant from the other side of the world or the other part of the continent if they can get the same thing down the street. A productized service business is about efficiencies and scale and a finite number of offerings that set prices.

Consulting 114

Consulting Productivity Advertising Training 114

Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

This ordered hierarchy was an efficient way to denote ‘who did what’. Many people will already be familiar with the system in operation at 3M where people are allowed to devote 15% of their time and budget to any project that they wish. 6th Commandment: People will embrace change if they construct it.

Energy 40

Energy System Advertising Management 40

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. Public cloud computing, offered by companies like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and my employer, Google Cloud, is still viewed by many as a cheaper and more efficient way for companies to store and process data.

Change Management 44

Change Management Management Software Productivity 44

Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

Operations 28

Operations Government Development Engineering 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

KLM conducted social media research to find out more about why the customers were waiting at the gate, whether their flights were delayed, why they were traveling, and then surprised them at their gates with personalized gifts. Integrating such social reports with geolocation delivers two added advantages.

Data 28

Data Media Guidelines Travel 28