A 3-layered model for process management

If you are up to improving the efficiency of your workplace, department or processes in the company at large you need to know as a key figure how complex your proposal would be to implement. In general you could think of a multitude of software aids, but nothing can compare to a human mind that considers all the details of daily office practice.

Nothing can compare to a human mind that considers all the details of daily office practice.

So, where could you start? Here is a 3-layered model which I use to analyze business processes in my day job, carry out implementations of new concepts as well as ecology checks. And if you are well versed in project management or NLP, you are already aware how essential ecology checks are for rating feasibility: (mehr …)

A technique for doing things unnoticed

bluecardThe so called Sapir-Whorf-Hypothesis, stating that language shapes thinking, has been in the curricula of many frehsmen studying linguistics a long time. It may be considered a paradigm for hypotheses that never have been formulated positively by their inventors (let me coin the notion „non-positive hypothesis“ for this) and constantly have been victimized in attempts to substantiate it. I won´t go into details for Sapir-Whorf here as some basic aspects can be found in Ekkehard Malotki´s book „Hopi Time: A Linguistic Analysis of the Temporal Concepts in the Hopi Language.“ 1983.
Neither do I tend to scandalize the history of linguistics at this point. (mehr …)