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Peak Privacy & Peak Televsion
On a recent episode of Tech News Today, host Tom Merritt spoke the words, “Privacy is going nowhere but down over the next few years.” He is the first person I’ve heard to pull together all of these...
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Superbowl Post: Playing a Different Game
Seahawks vs Broncos In 1906 the rules were modified to allow the forward pass American Football (aka “Gridiron”), defining the schism between football and rugby and enabling those teams that made use...
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Define the Mission, then the Vehicle
Start with the mission, not with the vehicle. Pat Duggins’ book Final Countdown, which documents NASA’s move to shutdown the Space Shuttle Program repeats an important aviation and aerospace maxim: The...
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New Products: What We Study
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture,...
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Policy and Innovation History (Radar, Manhattan Project and Apollo)
Innovation is a newborn baby that politicians love to kiss – regions and municipalities want more of it, but are uncertain of how to proceed. Metrics are challenging – for the politician and...
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Seven Red Lines (aka “The Expert”): The Transcript
Cast: CUSTOMER C1 (“Customer 1st speaker”) – The customer lead, Justine’s boss Justine – Design specialist at the customer VENDOR V1 (“Vendor 1st speaker”) – The vendor lead, Walter and Anderson the...
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Seven Red Lines (3): Anderson the Expert’s Failings
“Anderson, it seems like you and Walter aren’t getting along very well.” Anderson the Expert is in a tough spot, his value as an expert wasn’t well defended, but he doesn’t do very much to help himself...
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Organizations Want to Live
Any organization, once it is created, takes on a life of its own. It wants to live. Just as Kevin Kelly describes ‘technology’ as a seventh kingdom of life, in many ways the individual organizations...
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Building the Right Team
In our management meetings the other week, we talked about what we want our teams to look like. Running our commercial organization, my ideal team needs to reflect the needs of the market and be able...
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Vendor Selection: What Works
The Bay Bridge’s Newest Section The California DOT’s selection of a partnership with Fluor and Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (“ZPMC”) to build the new section of the Bay Bridge hasn’t gone...
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DTNS 2397: Tech Forecasting for 2015 (1 of 7)
In the value-for-value world of DTNS, Patreon and Tom Merrit – I might not be the best contributor. Trying to think of ways to give back, I listened to the 2015 forecast show, DTNS 2397, that was...
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Tech Forecasting: Comments on 6 Years of Forecasts (3 of 7)
Perfect forecast = Widespread Uber acceptance Over six years of prediction shows, when the hosts were right, they were very right. When they were wrong, it was usually because they were too early or...
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Tech Forecasting and Predictions 2015 (4 of 7)
After listening to six years of tech prediction shows – it seemed only fair to add my own predictions based on industrial and slower moving technologies. I’m attempting to follow the rules as laid...
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Technology Forecasting and Predictions: 2016 (7 of 7)
DTNS’s 2016 prediction show, #2657, was published on December 31, 2015 and along with the diverse group of hosts, there was a broad range of predictions in many areas. Virtual reality dominated from an...
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“I hate your plan. (But I won’t suggest alternatives.)”
Pirie’s book is an alphabetical list of rhetoric, argument and logical techniques. Names can create power. Finding an existing accepted name is even more helpful. I encountered a management challenge...
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The World Economic Forum’s ‘Top 10 Emerging Technologies’
From the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Nanosensors! Autonomous vehicles! [Yawn.] We’ve seen these before. Organs-on-chips? Optogenetics?!? Now this is interesting. The Davos-based World...
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Believe the Team that is Doing It
Better batteries will definitely impact the automotive market, but there are a wide range of opinions as to how. The US Department of Energy estimated that nearly 1.2 million such vehicles were part...
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Growth by Document
The current business has experienced pleasant success despite a challenging market. We grew our ASP from $40,000 by nearly 20x, increased our industrial installation base by similar numbers and have...
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Biology vs the Over-Simplification of Economics
A changing US tax code and shifting geopolitical activity puts more focus on the opinions of economists. Bloomberg economist and Michigan economics PhD, Noah Smith (his blog is Noahpinion) highlighted...
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“What does it take to be (a good) CEO?” Answer: People
All of the successes were from bringing in good people, helping them frame problems and getting them the tools they needed to be successful. The failures? They were mine – mostly due to not properly...
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