Managerial Courage and the Dark Side of the Force
by Ulises Pabon I was recently talking with a CEO about his executive team. He used the term “managerial courage” to describe one of his...
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QBS Team
- Jun 16
- 1 min
Iterative Planning Webinar
by Ulises Pabon If uncertainty about the future has hijacked your long-term planning process, you are not alone. The temptation to focus...
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QBS Team
- May 21
- 3 min
Walking Down Memory Lane to See the Future
By Ulises Pabón This is the book that ignited my interest in electronics. I can't remember how old I was when I first laid my hands on...
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QBS Team
- May 18
- 3 min
Mr. Manager, Tear Down This Suggestion Box!
by Ulises Pabon photo by Allesandro Bellone Ideas are like babies. They are extremely vulnerable at birth. Our brain doesn't spit out...
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QBS Team
- May 2
- 3 min
Change, Opportunity, and Innovation
by Ulises Pabon COVID has had a devastating impact on human life and has made a significant dent in many businesses. We are starting to...
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QBS Team
- Feb 2
- 2 min
Cultura de Cero Pérdidas para la Optimización de la Operación
por Iván Sánchez A veces subestimamos la capacidad para optimizar las operaciones. El concepto de evaluar todo lo que no agregue valor...
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QBS Team
- Jan 18
- 2 min
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire
by Ulises Pabon I do not have the stomach to post the pictures here, but if you search for “Jim Jones November 18” and click on “images”...
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QBS Team
- Dec 22, 2020
- 4 min
Disruption in the Making
by Ulises Pabon I remember, not too long ago, seeing a graph that showed the decline in sales of film cameras together with the increase...
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QBS Team
- Nov 6, 2020
- 3 min
4th Generation Manufacturing
by Ulises Pabon I met Professor Steven Wheelright, co-author of Dynamic Manufacturing, while I worked at Intel, back in the ’90s. He was...
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QBS Team
- Jul 30, 2020
- 1 min
Programa de Certificación en TRIZ
Una descripción del contenido del curso en 5 minutos Aún quedan espacios disponibles para el programa que comienza el 5 de agosto. Llame...
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QBS Team
- Jul 13, 2020
- 1 min
Programa de Certificación en TRIZ
QBS anuncia su programa de certificación en TRIZ para científicos, ingenieros, inventores y técnicos. Obtenga información sobre el...
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QBS Team
- Jul 5, 2020
- 1 min
Fast-Forward to the Future
by Ulises Pabon One of the pernicious side effects of COVID-19 is that it has us stuck in the present. You can’t create the future if...
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QBS Team
- Jun 13, 2020
- 3 min
Bouncing Forward
by Ulises Pabón Photo by Artem Maltsev on Unsplash In physics, resiliency is the term used to describe the ability of a substance or an...
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QBS Team
- May 31, 2020
- 1 min
The Root of Racism, A Personal Reflection
by Ulises Pabón Racism is seated on a fundamental idea. A false and evil fundamental idea, but a fundamental idea nonetheless: the idea...
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QBS Team
- May 24, 2020
- 4 min
Vishnu, Shiva, Brahma, and COVID-19
by Ulises Pabon In 2016, Vijay Govindarajan (known as VG) published a framework for innovation in his book The 3 Box Solution inspired on...
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QBS Team
- May 21, 2020
- 3 min
True Reinvention
by Ulises Pabon The easiest way to render a concept useless is to turn it into jargon. It ceases to mean anything. Without meaning, the...
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QBS Team
- May 10, 2020
- 7 min
COVID-19 and TRIZ
by Ulises Pabon When you study, at a very high level of abstraction, the thousands of patents that have been awarded, you can identify...
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QBS Team
- Dec 8, 2019
- 4 min
Is Sustainability On Your Agenda?
by Ulises Pabon For years, business owners and managers viewed delivering high quality products and service as a costly proposition. In...
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QBS Team
- Nov 12, 2019
- 5 min
Managing Human Error
by Ramon Rivera In organizations, errors have double implications. On the one hand, there is no doubt that errors can contribute to grave...
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QBS Team
- Aug 14, 2019
- 4 min
PDT!
by Ulises Pabon As soon as he stepped out of the cab, Bernard noticed it had started to get cold. It had stopped raining, but he could...
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