Plainte aux autorités chinoises

Dans la lignée de ce billet, une lettre publiée dans le China Daily. On est loin d'un Service Review gouvernemental.

Dear officers,

I'd like to show my homage to your hard work to handle the Spring Festival transport, which is seen as the world's largest annual human migration. I appreciate your efforts to assist with some expected 2.5 billion journeys this year.

Therefore you must feel chagrined at travelers' criticism and complaints. But please don't be upset, I can lend you my shoulder and let's analyze together why they are dissatisfied with some of your work.

Effets de l'Internet

The Internet tells me I am thinking in real time, when what it really does, increasingly, is take away the real and take away the time.

(via Nicolas Langelier)

Google : Information => Energie => Information ?

Google semble de plus en plus s'impliquer dans la gestion de l'énergie, allant même jusqu'à possiblement aller dans la spéculation.

Montréal: ville culturelle et créatrice

Montréal, au même niveau que Barcelone, Berline et Buenos Aires ?
Un beau projet.

La Chine est les ressources naturelles canadiennes

Un autre exemple de la Chine qui investit (s'approprie?) dans les ressources naturelles mondiales; le cuivre canadien/équatorien dans le cas présent.

À noter, l'acquisition chinoise passe entre autres par une compagnie ferroviaire, China Railway Construction Corp.

The acquisition “is in line with the long-term strategy of the company,” Beijing-based China Railway Construction said in the statement. The company “has added development of mineral resources as one of its principal operations,” it said.

MosaiC

Les cas de la gestion de l'innovation et de la créativité présentés ici (Loto-Québec, Renault, Hydro-Québec) sont formateurs et soulèvent des questions intéressantes.

De l'innovation

Article du Ivey Business Journal qui réfère à une étude menée à Polytechnique.

La communication dans l'entreprise

Des compagnies comme Tibco et salesforce.com cherchent à transférer la communication Twitter/Facebook/MySpace/... à l'intérieur de l'entreprise.

Sharepoint est aussi supposé de régler tout ça.

My 2 cents : le problème n'est pas la plateforme technologique.

jobEQ - iWAM

Standard Group: Change

Strengths -
Past, you like to turn to the past for information
Future, you show a great deal of interest for prospects and future potential
Evolution, you get motivated when you perceive progress in your work
Goal Orientation, Miles Davis said: "Do not fear mistakes, there are none"
Achievement, you are especially motivated by what you can achieve and you hope that others will evaluate you based on your results and your capabilities
Focus on People, you like to work with people, their feelings, their thoughts and how they react
Breadth, you are motivated when people explain the vision to you and when you can broaden your horizons

Areas of Development -
Focus on Money, you're not the type of person to keep score or to check whether you get paid fairly
Focus on Activity, in order to feel successful at work, it's not important for you to focus on activity nor do you need to manipulate activities
Indifference, this indicates that you are concerned about other people's behavior

Why a Six-Hour Flight Now Takes Seven

Article du WSJ à propos de la pratique dans le monde de l'aviation de se donner des temps standards de transit plus longs afin d'avoir de meilleures statistiques.

AMR Corp.'s American added significant chunks of block time in late 2008 and early 2009 as part of an effort to boost the airline's "on-time" performance. Other carriers say they have done much the same. [...]

But adding block time can be expensive for airlines. Adding minutes in large quantities can mean an airline can't fly the same number of flights each day without adding airplanes to its fleet or giving up spare aircraft held in reserve for when mechanical problems arise. In addition, most airlines pay crews the greater of the actual time of a trip or the scheduled time. Increasing the scheduled time adds labor costs.

"Block time is the dumbest and most expensive way to buy on-time performance," says Andrew Watterson, an airline consultant with Oliver Wyman, a unit of Marsh & McLennan Cos. "The better way is to improve operations at the airline" so it runs better.

Les questions à un entrepreneur

Des venture capitalists qui posent des (bonnes) questions à un entrepreneur qui cherche de l'argent.

1. What’s your deadly sin?
2. Where’s the real money?
3. What are your unit economics?
4. What are the explanatory events?
5. Why can’t you grow faster?
6. What are the accelerating effects?
7. What’s your secret sauce?
8. How do you win?