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| | Ernest L. Hughes (“Ernie” or “Lincoln”) is a senior transformation consultant, and trainer with HughesGlobal, LLC, and the chief innovation officer of HughesGlobal Network, his consulting and education network focused on helping individuals, teams, organizations, and value chains realize their potential and flourish through organization and leadership development, innovation and change management, and supply chain management utilizing systems approaches. He is also an associate professor of transportation and logistics with American Public University, and a part-time lecturer with the School of Business of the University of Washington Bothell. Prior to launching his consulting and education practice network, Hughes enjoyed broad leadership responsibility in a range of organizations for more than 30 years. He was most recently the director of technical services for Recreational Equipment, Incorporated (REI). Before joining REI, Hughes was co-founder and chief information officer for Cascadia Community College after a 15-year technology career with Boeing. At Boeing, he managed business applications, systems engineering, software process improvement, software cost management, software engineering education, and merger integration function and change programs. He also held systems analysis and software development positions with Tenneco and Getty Oil. Hughes earned an MS in Global Supply Chain Management from the University of Alaska Anchorage, a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and a Master's in Software Engineering from Seattle University, and an MBA in Organizational Behavior at California State University, Bakersfield. He has training and certifications in a number of specialties, including: Global Competencies Inventory & Intercultural Effectiveness Scale (ICI); Crowdsourcing and Innovation Management Best Practices (Ideascale); Change Management Process, Methodologies, and Tools (Prosci); Leadership & Customer Service Trainer (Achieve Global); Manager of Quality/Operational Excellence (ASQ); Supply Management Training (ISM CPSM T3 Trainer); Fastrac Entrepreneurship (Kauffman Foundation); Organization Workshop (Power & Systems); Materials Handling Training (CICMHE MHTI); Competency Development (CYGNUS); Risk Communication (Cultural Effect); and Precise Communication (Vervago). He has been a reviewer for Computing Reviews since 1988, and has written over 60 reviews. |
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 The innovation navigator: transforming your organization in the era of digital design and collaborative culture
Marion T., Fixson S., UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS, Toronto, Canada, 2018. 208 pp. Type: Book (978-1-487501-11-2)
As French author and 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature winner André Gide once remarked, “Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.” So, ...
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Jan 23 2019 |
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More fearless change: strategies for making your ideas happen
Manns M., Rising L., Addison-Wesley Professional, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2015. 336 pp. Type: Book (978-0-133966-44-2), Reviews: (1 of 2)
Some things get better with age: wine, cheese, pickles, balsamic vinegar, cast iron pans [1]. Me, and this book. It is a new and improved version of a 2005 classic that should already be on every innovation and change leader’...
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Oct 7 2015 |
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The incremental commitment spiral model: principles and practices for successful systems and software
Boehm B., Lane J., Koolmanojwong S., Turner R., Addison-Wesley Professional, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2014. 336 pp. Type: Book (978-0-321808-22-6)
This book is chock-full of accumulated knowledge, collective wisdom, and engineering best practices about what makes systems development successful. The incremental commitment spiral model (ICSM) extends and uses Boehm’s earl...
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Aug 19 2014 |
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The science of service systems
Demirkan H., Spohrer J., Krishna V., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2011. 382 pp. Type: Book (978-1-441982-69-8)
One of two related collections of papers in the Springer “Service Science” series on research and innovation in the service economy [1,2], this book is best suited for academics. It presents research on the nature o...
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Systems thinking (3rd ed.): managing chaos and complexity: a platform for designing business architecture
Gharajedaghi J., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2011. 376 pp. Type: Book (978-0-123859-15-0)
This book is about systems and how systems thinking can be utilized to gain fresh insights and a better feel of the great game of business [1]. Our knowledge and understanding of effective business organizations is considerable, but ty...
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Mar 22 2012 |
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Systems approaches to managing change: a practical guide
Reynolds M., Holwell S., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2010. 309 pp. Type: Book (978-1-848828-08-7)
Much like Dijkstra and the dining philosophers, Reynolds and Holwell have invited five prominent systems methodologies to dinner: systems dynamics, the viable system model (VSM), strategic options and development and analysis (SODA), s...
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Oct 20 2010 |
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Towards a unified fault-detection benchmark
Schmeelk S. PASTE 2010 (Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering, Toronto, ON, Canada, Jun 5-6, 2010) 61-64, 2010. Type: Proceedings
Late one afternoon, shortly after we first moved to Seattle in 1983, Jane, my wife, and I wanted to try a new place to eat. I was confident that I knew where the place was, so we headed out without the address or directions. Over an ho...
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