3 Dot Holiday…

…The case for common sense in business… A colleague had this recent e-mail exchange with an outside vendor on setting up a date for a meeting:
Colleague: Please propose some times for a meeting.
Vendor: OK, how about Monday July6 at 10am, or Tue July 7 at 9am?
Colleague: Great, Monday at 10am work great.
Vendor: Not sure what [...]

3 Dot Friday…

Started reading Blink the other day… Through the first 4 chapters and still waiting for this “eureka”moment to hit… I get it that we can make very accurate decisions without 12 months of analysis… But still waiting for something other than, what to this point, are somewhat weak analogies…  Should I keep reading, or is [...]

Cloud(y) Skies…

Interesting in that a previous discussion I had on cloud computing availability ties directly to one particular problem with it.  Apparently a lightening strike knocked out Amazon’s cloud services (Elastic Compute Cloud).  The system was down for about 7 hours.  7 hours?  That might seem inconsequential, but to a manufacturer… can you afford to shut [...]

Autonomous Driving?

I have hoped that some day, in my lifetime, we will have the ability for cars to “drive themselves”.  We’re getting closer.  VW/Stanford/Sun all collaborating together.

My Decreas… (I mean) Increasing Microsoft Footprint

Going through a couple of old drafts for this blog I noticed one in particular titled “My Decreasing Microsoft Footprint”.  I had to chuckle at that one (from around a year ago) based on my technology footprint today.  One year ago, I was testing Google Docs, listening to my iPod, utilizing Evernote, Google search etc.  [...]

Where’s the Innovation?

I just read a news article on the upcoming release of GM’s new (old) Camaro and got to thinking… Is this innovation?  Check out these highlights from GM and tell me which one is the next ground breaking feature that will make the line a success: 10 exterior colors (wow!), 4 wheel independent suspension (unbelievable!), [...]