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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Why the Fourth Revolution is the Era of the Exponential, and How this Changes Everything
The Fourth Revolution is the era of the exponential – whereas the Industrial Age was the era of linearity. And that changes everything in the way we live our life: the complexity of the products we use every day increases … Continue reading
Publishing A Book is Not Any More a One-Way Broadcast
If you are a e-book reader you might have noticed that you can type in your notes and share your text highlights with other readers, the world… and the publisher. Publishing a book is not any more a one-way broadcast. … Continue reading
Old Industrial Age Cliches Die Hard. Kill them Faster to Transform the Economy!
As I was travelling in France a few weeks ago I was repeatedly struck by how Old Industrial Age cliches die hard – and in particular in ‘developed’ countries. Trade unions claim that the country should be re-industrialized (poster on … Continue reading
Are you weird enough?
“Weird (not normal) means that you’ve made a choice, that you’ve stood up for what you believe in and done what you want” – Seth Godin in ‘We are all weird‘ Seth clearly means that if today you want to … Continue reading
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Do you have enough quiet time with yourself?
“Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers” – Dr Ester Buchholz (from Garr Reynolds’s ‘Presentation Zen‘ (a great recommended … Continue reading
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Why the Collaborative Age is about Lean – Accelerating our Learning
Have you read the ‘The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses‘ by Eric Ries? I must say I was a bit reluctant at first because it seemed to be a very trendy flashy … Continue reading
Large, Complex Projects: Discover the slides from my latest public presentation
I had the opportunity to do a public presentation about large, complex projects last week in Kuala Lumpur. There are no video recordings available but here are at least the slides. Large Complex Projects (PMI-MY presentation Sept 2012) from ProjectValueDelivery … Continue reading
Crowdfunding is not charity – and it is not free!
Crowdfunding is very trendy. It is about financing startups with many people contributing a little bit of money each (it also works very well in other endeavors like political campaign financing and art financing). We’ve already touched on crowdfunding in … Continue reading
Avoid the entrepreneur trap: go and meet your clients!
As an entrepreneur with a vision, a very clear trap is to develop an idea of the business without asking the ultimate stakeholder: the client. It is so easy to fall into this well-known trap of not listening enough to … Continue reading
A visual demonstration of the revolution in manufacturing
Digital manufacturing, also known as 3-D printing (see our April 2011 post on 3D printing), is a technology that is evolving into an industrial production technology. It now allows to produce objects that are far more evolved and cheaper that … Continue reading
Manufacturing Revolution reloaded: 3D printing of human organs is real!
In a previous post on the “visual demonstration of the revolution in manufacturing” we showed how 3D printing can create incredibly complex and clever objects. Be seated for that one: 3D printing of human organs using cells – or how … Continue reading
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So, are you attending my Public Speech Tuesday evening in Kuala Lumpur?
Are you coming and did you register for my speech on “How to Master Large, Complex Projects: a Different Ball Game“? – next Tuesday evening, Bukit Kiara Club in KL, 6:30pm. I’ll expect you there!
