Backups are important. In fact, I frequently obsess over it. When I bought and set up a new Raspberry Pi at home, one of the first things I wanted to do was find a way to back it up. More specifically, I wanted the backup to go to an external [...]
I’ve recently been learning Robotic Process Automation, or RPA for short. The robot in RPA isn’t the type of mechanical machine made popular by Science Fiction author, Issac Asimov. Instead, they’re software robots. I hadn’t realised this, but software robots have been a huge part of my professional life since [...]
There’s no denying that reorganisations, or reorgs as they are colloquially known, are messy affairs. But they might be necessary to meet either short or long-term challenges. Perhaps the environment around the business has been disrupted by new technology, and existing products and services are no longer profitable. Said Paul [...]
I often get annoyed when people talk about benchmarking. It’s not that I dislike the whole idea of benchmarking, but that a lot of discussion on the topic is plain wrong. For example, benchmarking programmes should not be implemented in the absence of a management framework that already tracks performance [...]
Although Singapore still has a generally young population, the proportion of elderly is expected to grow significantly. In 1970, there were about 118,300 persons aged sixty and above. Ten years later, this rose by 47%, to 173,600. By 2030, up to 835,000 person will be sixty or older. People are [...]
It’s easy to underestimate the impact that process improvements has on the environment, but it’s real. Whichever tool a team uses to examine and improve their work, one of the first targets is usually muda. Muda is a Japanese word that means waste. Wastes appear in all processes, even in [...]
A key reason why I went on a blitz to make my home smarter, was to reduce the difficulties that my aged parents were frequently confronting. Let’s face it, when we get older, a lot of our faculties degrade: vision, balance, memory etc. Two challenges that my parents had to [...]
Data are raw facts that describe the activities that we do, and the state of the world that we live in. The volume of data that accompanies us every single moment is truly massive. Thankfully, most data remains hidden; collected stealthily by the devices we use and through the transactions [...]
I bet you’ve gotten a little sick hearing the term digital. It’s paired with almost everything now- digital voice, digital currency, or the ephemeral digital space. In my last post on cybersecurity, I even used the phrase Digital Resilience. But what exactly is digital? It’s not an easy term to [...]
Modern businesses recognise the importance of driving innovation and continuous improvement through team-based projects. This does not mean, however, that organisations have gotten smarter at selecting the correct type of projects. In my cheat sheet, I list four mistakes that I had personally made early in my career. 1. Selecting [...]
