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AI in Manufacturing: What Worked and What Did Not

Posted on May 29, 2025 by flybrand1976

With our small business we’ve used premium subscription services to several of the current top AI platforms to see what kind of impact we could have. With less than $10 million in revenue and ~25 employees, this was an opportunity … Continue reading →

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Beyond Bottlenecks: Using Goldratt’s The Goal to Guide AI in Manufacturing

Posted on May 27, 2025 by flybrand1976

Industrial AI has some amazing claims and lackluster performance. If we use AI as a plot device in manufacturing’s most well known novel – Goldratt’s The Goal – it helps us see where the hype cycle is too far gone, … Continue reading →

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Six Signs You Should Explore Growth with Healthcare Buyers

Posted on December 3, 2023 by flybrand1976

Originally posted to LinkedIn. Full list of 17 LinkedIn articles – all are found here at this blog as well. Everybody wants to live longer and feel better, nobody enjoys seeing another human suffering or in pain. Demand for products … Continue reading →

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Crossing the Chasm: Page by Page Review – Moore’s Masterpiece

Posted on August 23, 2019 by flybrand1976

If you’re new to product management, marketing, sales or leadership in an industrial B2B supply chain – this book is the best place to start. Key Concepts Product Life Cycle Moore’s first chapter introduces the key tenant of the book … Continue reading →

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Five criteria for picking winning industrial / manufacturing technologies

Posted on January 17, 2018 by flybrand1976

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New or Better?

Posted on January 16, 2018 by flybrand1976

When new technologies arise there is a real desire to create a Disruptive Product(TM), to focus on the new and to avoid simply making a better version of the current market leader. Don’t fall into that trap. It is almost … Continue reading →

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Labor Day: Technology, Trade and Labor

Posted on September 5, 2016 by flybrand1976

Yet the campaign had completely failed to do what a political campaign is supposed to do – bring the nation to full awareness and earnest discussion of its most crucial issues and lead to a verdict that would put those issues … Continue reading →

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The World Economic Forum’s ‘Top 10 Emerging Technologies’

Posted on September 2, 2016 by flybrand1976

Nanosensors!  Autonomous vehicles! [Yawn.]  We’ve seen these before. Organs-on-chips? Optogenetics?!?  Now this is interesting. The Davos-based World Economic forum released a list of 10 emerging technologies that made a tour of the press a few weeks ago.  There is no … Continue reading →

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Technology Forecasting and Predictions: 2016 (7 of 7)

Posted on January 25, 2016 by flybrand1976

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 air time standpoint.  With multiple big … Continue reading →

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Is that a Disruptive Prediction? (6 of 7)

Posted on January 24, 2016 by flybrand1976

“And two years later, what come out? PlayStation 2.” – Ali G Some predictions are linear – like that made by Sasha Baron Cohen’s character Ali G above.  Sitting in 1993 it might have been disruptive to predict Sony’s entrance … Continue reading →

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