The latest issue of B/W features an article on Fisker Design Fisker is famous for designing the BM Z8 as well as the Aston Martin V 8, He quit those jobs to start his own coachbuilding firm.  Back in the heyday of the Dusenburg, rich individuals would buy a chasis from Duzy and then have…

A continuing topic in Acct 3270 is customer satisfaction- the cornerstone of Deming’s TQM, CQM, and Six Sigma.  Now Procter and Gamble and Target are looking for  who is in their customer base, supply chain, and field of influence.  Check out labs.dig.com.  Here are visualizations of what people are bookmaking on their computers.  I think…

The recent covers of Automobile, Men’s Journal, and Fast Company all featured issues on Design.  I am seeing more and more on this topic.  The current 9/25/06 issue of Business Week has a 41 page insert on Innovation, I would not be surprised to see it spun off as a separate publishing piece. It is…

The current Business Week points out that unemployment in the US is 4.7% compared to Germay at 8.2% and France at 8.9%.  Now remember that unemployment never goes to zero.  People are always between jobs, moving, students come and go from the workplace, and frankly some folks don’t want to work. The 4.7% is as…

We had an interesting question occur in one class this past week.  A student anticipated moving to the accounting dept in his present company. When I asked if anyone wanted to work for a CPA firm, the response was, which pays more money? Such a question is imposible to answer, and besides that is not…

The Saturday9/23/06 Dallas Morning News DMNrepots on page 2D that one Jim Phole has managed to unioinize the first eleven drives as preisdent of the American Union of Pizza Delivery Drivers Inc at a Pensocola franchise of Domino’s.  The franchise refused to pay the minimum wage saygin the were tipped employees.  This may well open…

To the Class of 2008! Welcome to my blog.  I realize that all of you are busy working, raising families, going to class, studying, and hopefully having some fun in between.  I wish that each and everyone of you could have had the residential college experience that I had, on the other hand, you won’t…