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Qairos: Architecting an Ontology of Flow
Technology David Hodes, Founder What if the central problem in project execution is not poor reporting, weak discipline, or inconsistent delivery, but the fact that the underlying system was never designed to understand flow in the first place? Qairos starts from a different premise: that work should be modelled not merely as tasks,
Measurably reliable and agile
Few performance standards deliver the competitive advantage you gain by keeping your promise to deliver on time, doing so faster than your competitors, and suffering no defects while you’re about it.
Managing accounting’s relevance
Eli Goldratt famously said, ‘Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way… do not complain about illogical behaviour.’ If you measure and reward activity, then activity’s what you’ll get.
mediumSix questions for financial performance
Who wouldn’t want more for less? More profit from less investment? More government services for fewer taxes? More charity work for less administrative overhead? But what measures will help us hit or exceed our productivity ambitions?
Productively safe where the worker meets the work
Zero harm is a universal aspiration. But you can be perfectly safe and go perfectly broke. How can we ensure the best chance of achieving zero harm while providing a sustainable and competitive return to our shareholders?
Quantum Work Management
As the internet was to the printing press, Artificial Intelligence is to the internet—a game-changer. Combining ubiquitous distributed computing with the hitherto unimaginable power of machine learning, the tiniest packet of work transforms into a building block for a giant leap in productivity.
