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walkitoutI bought this in 2015, in paperback. It’s a really odd one, because you can get an audiobook version of it (audible) but it does not appear to be available in kindle format. It’s really more a reference book than anything else, _but it is a reference book that is quite readable_, which is why I bought it. I wanted to absorb at a surface level the 2 page summaries of what it is about, because I figured it would help me reading business news more quickly without constantly having to look up terms.
Anyway. It’s 8 years later, and I’ve absorbed a lot of it on my own in the meantime, but I’m once again trying to read books before getting rid of them, so here we are.
First up! Enterprise Resource Planning. The description makes it very clear that I have friends who have engaged in trying to do proto-ERP stuff and who have used SAP (how did I not know that SAP/Oracle products were basically doing ERP? That’s what this book is designed to fix in my brain tho, so, yay! Late is better than never). Also! K.’s data dictionary!
That’s kinda boring, tho. Much more interesting is Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
Best of all so far — I’m in the middle of the E’s — is BCG’s “The Experience Curve”. I’ve been trying to explain this to people! Of course, I’d never heard of it before. Basically, everyone has changed jobs, so everyone is new at their job, so everyone is slow and making mistakes and doesn’t know how to do stuff. Thus, everything is much more expensive (because slow and mistakes) which is contributing to inflation. Once everyone settles in and gets used to their jobs (gains experience) they will get faster and make fewer mistakes and they will know how to do stuff and they will be more productive and that process will be deflationary. It’s probably not worth digging further into BCG’s development of the idea, because it has a bunch of problems in the way they developed it. But I have a term I can throw around! Yay!
I don’t really recommend the book, because it is a bit out of date and it is branded The Economist, and so forth, but it is definitely serving the purpose I bought it for, albeit 8 years later.
Anyway. It’s 8 years later, and I’ve absorbed a lot of it on my own in the meantime, but I’m once again trying to read books before getting rid of them, so here we are.
First up! Enterprise Resource Planning. The description makes it very clear that I have friends who have engaged in trying to do proto-ERP stuff and who have used SAP (how did I not know that SAP/Oracle products were basically doing ERP? That’s what this book is designed to fix in my brain tho, so, yay! Late is better than never). Also! K.’s data dictionary!
That’s kinda boring, tho. Much more interesting is Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
Best of all so far — I’m in the middle of the E’s — is BCG’s “The Experience Curve”. I’ve been trying to explain this to people! Of course, I’d never heard of it before. Basically, everyone has changed jobs, so everyone is new at their job, so everyone is slow and making mistakes and doesn’t know how to do stuff. Thus, everything is much more expensive (because slow and mistakes) which is contributing to inflation. Once everyone settles in and gets used to their jobs (gains experience) they will get faster and make fewer mistakes and they will know how to do stuff and they will be more productive and that process will be deflationary. It’s probably not worth digging further into BCG’s development of the idea, because it has a bunch of problems in the way they developed it. But I have a term I can throw around! Yay!
I don’t really recommend the book, because it is a bit out of date and it is branded The Economist, and so forth, but it is definitely serving the purpose I bought it for, albeit 8 years later.