26 episodios
FORVM499 Bill Young
-
- Economía y empresa
True reports, imagined sketches and personal interviews with a common goal: to inspire insights into value creation (or destruction) in supply chains, transactions and behaviours.
All borrowed from an unsettled career in sales, marketing, research targeting, product management, supply chains, procurement and consultancy.
For obscure and arcane reasons, the average length of episodes is around 499 seconds
Key words: eclectic; liberal; catholic; contrarian; provocative; inciteful (sic); diverse; cynical;
-
Series 2, Episode 6: Personal Development
Personal development is more than the the skills and competencies listed in a set of job requirements. The most important elements of behaviour and performance are almost impossible to train. Let's call these societal skills.
-
Series 2, Episode 5 - Process Mining
Who knew?
Process Mining is the 'next, big thing'. You have to ask how out of touch executives can be. Procurement and supply folks have been using ERP systems to trace and analyze process activities for over quarter of a century.
The Economist article mentioned in this podcast episode, 'The real next big thing in business automation', even calls it 'a digital gold mine'.
It is sad how executives are unaware of the talents of their own organizations -
Series 2, Episode 4 - Social Media: Data Ownership
Episode 3 was about social media companies' refusal to accept that they have massive influence over the content on their platforms. This episode asks why users of social media platforms cannot retain ownership of their own data and sell licences to use it.
-
Series 2, Episode 3 - Social Media: Part 1, Content Liability
Social media platforms escape most of the rules that apply to publishers. They claim, and we appear to accept, that they do not have control or influence over content; and consequently they should be regulated lightly, like a utility provider. Really, who believes that?
-
Series 2, Episode 2 - De-Organisation: Tao and the Art of Business Administration
After more than a century of Taylorist thinking on how to organise companies for efficiency, isn't it time for a rebalance
The transcript for this podcast is at Season 02, Episode 02: De-Organisation (FORVM.online)
WARNING: Some listeners may find this podcast boring - SORRY! -
Series 2, Episode 1 - Followership
There is too much Leadership. What we really need is Followership.
Welcome to the first episode of Season 2 of FORVM499, an occasional podcast on business, politics and society. The first Season looked mainly at supply chains but, from this episode onwards, we'll be sharing the curious, thought-provoking and perhaps controversial on a wider range of topics.
I hope you enjoy it.