Author Archives: Simone O'Connor

Tulips are as synonymous with Holland as clogs and the colour orange. So strong was the Dutch love affair with tulips during the Dutch Golden Age of the mid-1600s that a tulip bulb bubble or “Tulip Mania” occurred.

In project management there is a technique that called the critical path. which must be completed on time for the project to meet its due date.

If you are a fan of 80s teen movies (who isn’t?) you may remember the scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off where the gang visits the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

One of the golden rules of process improvement is: don’t automate or standardise a broken process. Did you know that there’s an instance of this happening that has probably impacted the course of history in a big way?

An economy can function without exchanging goods for money or even exchanging goods for goods. Contrast that to the gift economy.