by Gil Friend | Aug 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Value stream mapping (thank you, Wikipedia) “is a lean manufacturing technique used to analyze and design the flow of materials and information required to bring a product or service to a consumer. At Toyota, where the technique originated, it is known as...
by Gil Friend | Jul 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’m deep into some of these, just begun on others, and re-reading a few. Many are by people who I am glad to call friends. All are worthy of your attention. (And in these days of online everything, there’s still something fine about curling up with one of...
by Gil Friend | Jun 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
[This post originally appeared in News From Natural Logic, a more or less monthly newsletter from Natural Logic, Inc.] Call it random, call it synchronous, call it selective awareness, but sometimes it seems the gems come in clusters. Some days the tweets just seem to...
by Gil Friend | May 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER 3508 Market Street Philadelphia, Pa. 19104 (215) EV 7-2255 Cable: “BUCKY” University Professor Southern Illinois University World Fellow in Residence University of Pennsylvania Bryn Mawr College Haverford College Swarthmore College...
by Gil Friend | May 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
[This post originally appeared in News From Natural Logic, a more or less monthly newsletter from Natural Logic, Inc. You can subscribe to News From Natural Logic here, and to this blog using the RSS link at the upper right of this page.] I moderated the panel on...
by Gil Friend | Apr 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Ecology is a love story. A play scripted between the sunlight’s tender dappling on the forest floor, the elegant drapery of the vines that climb a cliff-face, the tickle of the squirrels and birds holding society in the treetops, and the sultry sway of the purple kelp...
