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July 15, 2009

Craft Production is a Good Trick

Image of Harvey Littleton's glass work: Flickr user vigilant20

Some tricks require dedicated practice, persistence, and flexibility. We practice plenty of tricks at Osborne and we're happy to share them. Practicing flexibility is one of the tricks that helps us develop new electromagnetic products.

Often a design will pass through many iterations in the course of becoming a single physical prototype. And complex circuits may require more than one major revision to the first prototype. Insightful changes save a lot of time and expense in the development cycle. It's essential that these ideas come from all members of the production team, because the sooner the good ideas surface, the faster a team can identify and implement opportunities for innovation, the shorter time frame required to reach a stable release. In this way, flexible teamwork during all stages of early development will get your concept to market faster.

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June 16, 2008

Osborne in IndustryWeek's "Energy Issue"

One of Osborne's areas of research and development in the past few years has been in the use of remote collaboration tools. We work with Socialtext hosted workspaces for internal and external project management. Recently Jeff Osborne gave a brief tour of Osborne's workspaces to Jeff Brainard (then of Socialtext) and Brad Kenney (IndustryWeek). Brad produced two interesting articles on the topic. One article is an overview of performance metrics related to wiki use The next article is a more in depth story about Osborne's history of working with Socialtext. In Brad's words:
"The result has been the gradual creation of a culture of empowerment and accountability, wherein Osborne's workforce adapts this cutting-edge tool to fit needs both old and new."
Thanks Brad!