The real challenge in climate crisis is energy equity and the relationship to standards of living. Let’s take a look at India for example in the fossil-fuel chart below (2019 data). Per person consumption is just over 6,000 KWh. In comparison, Sweden is over 19,000 KWh per person. The US…

Systematic Approaches to Design Fuse agile with waterfall to deliver high quality hardware products on a predictable timeline. Use systems thinking to break down functional blocks to understand and deliver user-focused, high quality products, on time. Our team in the 90’s took 13 months to develop our first notebook PC — then took it…

This note is the first in a series about Systems Engineering approaches to solving problems, ranging from product design to sales and marketing. As the first in the series, it is intended to describe the landscape, and at least some known issues. …

The fastest way to get things done is identify what inputs are needed to make decisions, identify the smallest group needed to make the decision, form the group, empower the group, make a decision, and execute to the decision. The best way to reduce decision complexity is to start by…

A simple, cohesive, memorable and implementable strategy deployed with focused energy and speed in your entry market is necessary, but not sufficient for victory. Practical Asymmetry Thought-out market focus is your #1 Asymmetric Advantage. We have discussed market entry and focus in other postings, so will not repeat here. …

Your early deployment pilot is to enable successful and scalable deployment of your product. This is the real deal. No slides, mockups or slick videos. Rubber meets road. This post is for non-technical founders who need a better idea of what they are getting into, and technical founders working to…

I’ve been asked by friends and founders about raising VC funds. In many cases the businesses had customers, revenues, differentiation and profits — but were not a match for VC funding. Bootstrapping and alternate financing was viable and probably better for them. There are thousands of sizable firms that have…

A few times every year, a “visionary founder” reaches out for help. There is “re-imagining” something in order to “disrupt” a $T market and all I need to do is sign on :-) To-date, just one “visionary” founder has been able to say why the stuff they were working on…

The battle for Share of Market — SOM — is the seminal battle for any company at all stages. You can either lose it all, barely make it, or make it through in your fight for market share. …