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Industrial Business Models – Choice #1
Hardware is dead. Hardware is booming. Hardware is hard and no one should do it. Hardware is different. Hardware is the same. IoT, IIoT and additive manufacturing attract attention to heavy industry – where a thing is being produced and … Continue reading
Posted in Disruption, Industry, Innovation, Materials Science, Theory
Tagged Business Models, Industry, leadership, Lean, Manufacturing, Operations, Sales
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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 resourcing a problem with the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Disruption, Filtration, Innovation, Invention, Marketing, Materials Science, Methods, Textile, Theory, Uncategorized
Tagged CEO, Entrpreneurship, leadership
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Project Planning: Stay out of the (San Francisco) Mud
San Francisco’s $350 MM Millennium Tower is sinking into the mud beneath it. Finished in 2009, some now believe that it could sink as much as 3 feet – greater than initial estimates of ‘possibly an inch in the event … Continue reading
Posted in Disruption, Industry, Innovation, Materials Science
Tagged Architecture, Materials, Mud, Planning, Project, Project Management, Soil
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Fraud in Industrial Technologies
GigaOm’s article on green energy snake oil highlights the challenges faced by investors in any industrial technology. We’re not investors, but over the past six years of applying our process and equipment in this industrial technology space, we have certainly seen many unusual … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Filtration, Industry, Invention, Materials Science, VC
Tagged Better Place, Cleantech, Fraud, Grants, Greentech, Investment, Investors
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Seven Red Lines (aka “The Expert”): The Transcript
[If dealing with absurd situations like those outlined in this hysterical sketch is part of your work life – learn about how to deal with them better following Goldratt’s Major Concepts or by reading this Chapter by Chapter summary of … Continue reading
Posted in Disruption, Invention, Marketing, Materials Science, Theory
Tagged Best practices, Customer, Dialog, Engagement, Meetings, Perpendicular, Sales, Seven Red Lines, Technical sales, The Expert, Transparent Ink, Work, Youtube
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Define the Mission, then 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 mission should define the vehicle, not the vehicle define the mission. Apollo’s mission was to put a … Continue reading
Posted in Aerospace, History, Industry, Innovation, Invention, Marketing, Materials Science, Theory, VC
Tagged Aerospace, Disruption, Lean Startups, Marketing, Mission, New Products
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Superbowl Post: Playing a Different Game
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 of the play to dominate their opponents. If you had the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Disruption, History, Industry, Innovation, Materials Science, Theory
Tagged Broncos, Forward pass, Games, Industry, Materials Science, Nanofiber membrane, Seahawks, Superbowl
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Google’s “Create a Filter” – Pure Torture If You Make Real Filters
Specialized software programs are unusual in the filtration industry – Excel and Minitab are used for data analysis, there are lots of .pdfs circulated with marketing materials and those are often originally crafted in PowerPoint, Word or other commonly used … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Innovation, Materials Science, Theory
Tagged Filter, Filtration, Google, Industrial, Industry, Materials Science, Media, Particulate, Product, Product Management, Product Marketing
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Filtration in the Popular Media: Ultrafine Particles and 3D Printing
Dr. Brent Stephens and his co-authors at the Illinois Institute of Technology attracted a good deal of popular press attention (TechCrunch Article) with their recent publication of, “Ultrafine paticle emissions from desktop 3-D Printers” in the journal of Atmospheric Environment. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Disruption, Industry, Innovation, Materials Science
Tagged 3D Printers, Filtration, HEPA, Most Penetration Particle, ULPA
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