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Sequester Semester
Lloyd and I meet for breakfast most Saturday mornings, and while we are eating we solve many of the world’s problems. Last Saturday, the topic was the sequester. How does [...]
Introducing the iFactory
Courtesy of Slate. Last [month], Apple reported one of the most amazing earning results in corporate history. During the last three months of 2011, the company made $13 billion in profit—more than [...]
Handcuffed by Lawyers
I’ve been doing business for a long time, but I am still shocked by the appalling clumsiness of big organizations. After decades of Lean and Six Sigma, ISO 9000 and [...]
Inside the Military’s Clean-Energy Revolution
Courtesy of The Atlantic. Damn the deniers, the doubters, and the do-nothing Congress. The Pentagon is moving full green ahead. I’m strapped into my backward-facing seat on a COD, or [...]
Reflections from the 2013 PMPA Management Update
Two weeks ago, I attended the Precision Machined Products Association (PMPA) Management Update, a three day annual conference where around 200 representatives from manufacturing companies in the association gathered in [...]
How Two Billionaires Are Supercharging The Electric Car To Upend Big Oil
Courtesy of Forbes.com. A roadhouse off Interstate 5 near Coalinga is the last place you’d expect to see an electric car pull in to refuel. A speck of nowhere surrounded [...]
Sign of a Comeback: U.S. Carmakers Are Hiring
By Bill Vlasic. DETROIT — A few years ago, American automakers cut tens of thousands of jobs and shut dozens of factories simply to survive. But since the recession ended [...]
Playing “Not to Lose” Usually Loses
Warren Buffett has been trying to buy Heinz, the king of ketchup, for 33 years. He finally got the deal by partnering with a Brazilian firm named 3G that will [...]
That’s Entertainment
It feels like we are in a golden period of film entertainment that I haven’t experienced in a very long time. In the last couple of months I have watched [...]
Disruptions: On the Fast Track to Routine 3-D Printing
By NICK BILTON. Will the future be printed in 3-D? At first glance, looking at past predictions about the future of technology, prognosticators got a whole lot wrong. The Web is [...]