There have been times during my career where I have stared in slack-jawed wonder at corporate culture that seemed, if not incompetent, at least the next best thing to it. Seeing the same mistakes made over and over again without learning any lessons seems like a horrible waste of time and resources.
Maybe part of the frustration is due to being an engineer with, you know, a modicum of interest in efficiency: in achieving the best results from all efforts put forward, rather than just muddling forward and hoping for the best.
With that being said, here are a couple concepts from the scientific world which seem to have obvious applicability in the business world but which seem to be strangely ignored in that capacity.
- Brownian motion/Random walk: in this context, a decisions making process in which random changes or reverses in direction, without any consistency or concern for lost effort. This one is on my mind most today because I work for a plucky small company that wastes a ridiculous amount of energy.
- The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle: in the workplace there is often a spastic or even frantic, constant interruption of the staff to inquire about status. No thought is given as to whether the work being measured depends on an ability to maintain focus on the task at hand. No thought is given about the efficient SHARING of status information one person has already obtained.
It's time to put the engineers in charge!!!
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