Category: Productivity

19 Aug

The new way of Getting Things Done

There are many great resources out there on the holy grail of productivity and time management. One popular method is the Getting Things Done (GTD) method from David Allen. GTD is a work-life management system and book by David Allen that attempts to free us from a vast workload and instead operate an integrated system of stress-free [...]
24 Jul

Health is wealth and your brain is your educational toy

Discussing strategies and especially books on it is always a popular topic. The other day I discussed this with a college at Industria who actually felt there is not much time for reading books. So, I gave him a bit of a different approach by making new use of his iPod — that is going [...]
22 Jul

Crisis, the Mother of Innovation

While there are certainly major downsides to the current economic situation, it can be good for innovation as people have once again started thinking about getting the most bang for their buck. Industria’s sharp focus on providing the most innovative and user-friendly TV media software available, puts us in a great position to grow. The way to forge ahead and spur the economy back into high growth is value creation through innovation.
06 Jun

Capitalizing knowledge

Industria is a knowledge-based company that builds its value on the competence of the company’s talent. Therefore, knowledge is one of the company’s primary assets. Industria is using a Wiki system as its corporate memory. This simplicity and usability of the Wiki are very important and really make the difference in turning information items into knowledge assets.
27 May

Daily status meetings in agile companies

Short meetings are good. If you have regular daily status meetings, I recommend you give them about 15 minutes time cap or max 3 minutes for each active attendee. One idea is to have participants standing during the meeting so that all are more alert and attentive. Often its easy to get into a lazy comfort zone [...]