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Articles on operations, manufacturing, engineering, decision making, finance and business. Organised by subject, so you can find what matters to you.
Bayesian networks represent uncertain relationships as a map of influences. How they work, how they support diagnosis and prediction, and what they can and cannot tell you about cause and effect.
10 min read
Automated systems and people both optimise what they are measured on. How objectives go wrong, how to balance multiple goals with trade-off analysis, and how to design rewards and KPIs that work.
10 min read
No single signal proves a bubble, but certain warning signs tend to appear together. A grouped checklist for judging whether a boom has become dangerous.
11 min read
Most bubbles come with a strong currency or a flood of foreign money. Why capital inflows and asset booms reinforce each other, how they reverse, and what it means for importers and exporters.
10 min read
Strong sales teams rest on a few durable values and habits. What accountability, tenacity, trust and empowerment look like in practice, and how leaders create the conditions for them.
10 min read
Rapport is the mutual understanding that makes honest conversation possible. Practical ways to build it, techniques that backfire, and how to know what to practise.
10 min read
Why ten years of steady, rising earnings tell you far more than one record result, and how to separate a business's real earning power from one-off gains.
10 min read
When team members share a goal but each sees only part of the picture, coordination is surprisingly hard. Lessons from collaborative agents research for designing teams, roles and communication.
10 min read
Most damaging bubbles are financed with borrowed money. How lending, new lenders, low real interest rates and rising debt turn a boom into a bubble, and why credit makes the bust worse.
10 min read
How interest costs, long-term debt and the mix of short- and long-term borrowing can reveal whether a business stands on its own or depends on lenders.
10 min read
A plain-English introduction to how people and machines make decisions when outcomes, models, situations and other actors are uncertain, and the main ways to design decision systems.
12 min read
Why businesses that constantly replace plant and equipment struggle to build wealth, how depreciation and capital spending reveal this, and what it means for manufacturing ventures.
10 min read
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