Dr. Jeffrey K. Liker is Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, owner of Liker Lean Advisors, LLC, Partner
Memorial Day: Honoring Service and Sacrifice
How Do We Remember Memorial Day. How do we remember and honor those the day is set aside for? Memorial Day started off as a somber day of
Majority Rule in Social Networks
In popular culture, there is much talk of social networks. Indeed, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and Linkedin are ubiquitous - how did we ever live
Acquisitions of Amazon, Yahoo, Microsoft, Google
This post shows merger and acquisition (M & A) activity of Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo. I attempt to do this in a nice scrollable
Can Twitter be Used for Epidemiology Surveillance?
A few weeks ago, I posted on my experience with Twitter, Part 1. That post was retweeted by Robert Scoble, the traffic came, got a bunch of new
Inverse Relationship Between Blog Posts Frequency and Tweet Frequency
Earlier this week, I posted on my experience with Twitter, Part 1. That post was retweeted by Robert Scoble, the traffic came, got a bunch of new
The Guy Kawasaki Firehose, AKA, His Twitter Feed
August 2013 Update: It's clear I had some time on my hands back in 2009. This post was my silly attempt to understanding Twitter after 1.5 months on
Factorial Equations of a Tweet
Ever since I discovered Twitter, I've been amazed at @ev, @biz, and @jack's idea of simplicity and usefulness. Lately, @windley (Phil Windley's
How Twitter Solves Voter and Other Types of Information Asymetry
A while ago, I wrote a post on how Digg is characterized by the principles of Game Theory. As it turns out, that post was Dugg to the front page of