Thought Piece - Benjamin Tumbleson

Oct 23, 2022 Thought Piece

Do you know your Uber PNR?

PNRs and other similar constructs represent legacy patterns that may not be relevant to the consumer today. Can we decouple these concepts between the consumer and the enterprise while breaking dependence across industries?

Jan 2, 2022 Thought Piece

Directionally correct and not precisely wrong

Work is often undertaken on a basis of its perceived value, but it's often in hindsight, without the "fog of war" that reveals false starts.

Feb 27, 2019 Thought Piece

Human Capital: Assets or Liabilities?

Imagine that you are an executive of a manufacturing company in any industry with a physical product (think automotive, agriculture, technology, consumer goods, etc.) As an executive, do you treat your own product inventory as an asset or a liability? How about your people?

May 23, 2018 Thought Piece

How inefficient am I?

When work has no baselines, how do you measure productivity and efficiency? And what if you're billing for that time? No answers here, just a thought process.

Mar 11, 2018 Thought Piece

Is productivity linear?

Sometimes it’s unclear how, if at all, the work you’re doing at a task level is contributing to a final product. One’s productivity might as well be zero, until you find the right route forward. If you were to graph the completion of a task/epic over time, I would venture it is far from linear.