Tag Archives: technology

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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Tech Forecasting and Predictions 2015 (4 of 7)

Posted on December 24, 2015 by flybrand1976

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 out by DTNS and the observations made … Continue reading →

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Tech Forecasting: Comments on 6 Years of Forecasts (3 of 7)

Posted on December 23, 2015 by flybrand1976

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 because of a surprise event in the area they were forecasting.  Most … Continue reading →

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Interested in the Carolinas? 12 must read books

Posted on March 14, 2014 by flybrand1976

North Carolina has been our adopted home since 2001 – I’ve lived here longer than anywhere else (despite all the time I’ve spent on the road for work).  It is an interesting state with a long political, commercial and technical … Continue reading →

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