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  1. What it means to be great

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    What makes a product great? I struggle with this question because being great is not just being better than good. Greatness is to goodness as wisdom is to smarts. Just like getting smarter and smarter may never make you…

  2. Meaningful Contribution

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    What if Apple did make a car? How significant could their products be? What would it take to influence the industry’s architecture? The global market is forecast to reach 88.6 million vehicles in 2015 and there are many…

  4. Soft Underbelly

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    Executives at car companies have suddenly had to answer questions about potential entrants into their business. This is a big change. I don’t recall a time when this was necessary for over 30 years. For decades the…

  6. Apple Assurance

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    Apple is categorized as a vendor of consumer electronics. More specifically, a member of the “Electronic Equipment” industry in the “Consumer Goods” sector. If indeed this is what it’s thought to be selling, there is a…

  7. Asymcar 24: Get rid of the Model T men

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    Should organizations hire people with industry skills and experience or capable, driven outsiders? Horace shares tales from Henry Ford’s personnel practices during the Model T to Model A transition. A discussion of…

  8. The Critical Path #158

    · · Podcast

    Horace interviews Whitney Johnson about her new book Disrupt Yourself. How can the theory of disruptive innovation be applied to you? How can you disrupt yourself? Source: The Critical Path #158

  9. Fluid Coupling

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    When exactly did enterprises become late adopters of technology? We know that they were some of the first buyers of computers. IBM sold tabulating and later computing machines to businesses starting in the 1910s. During…