by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business
You can have it all: 3 business imperative April 26, 2022 by Lance Most high-tech businesses have three business imperatives. One is continued leveraging of global resources in order to have access to the best people world-wide and to save costs. Another is...
by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business, Strategy
Winning business attack strategies against the entrenched competitor April 26, 2022 by Lance In this blog we will touch on a few aspects of how to attack an entrenched competitor, a topic of interest whether you are playing offense or defense. Winning business attack...
by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business
Mommy, it’s not fair! Great business ideas for offense and defense April 26, 2022 by Lance This essay is about how great business ideas for defense from interlopers, a topic of interest to those blessed with great businesses as well as those that hope to get a...
by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business, Product Development
The experience curve, or how to win by learning faster April 26, 2022 by Lance “When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience gains money and the person with money gains experience.” Anon. “Our strategy is to get big fast.” Jeff...
by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business
But thinking makes it so: business strategy April 26, 2022 by Lance So we have been through the first phase of our strategic planning process. We did the situational analysis: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” Followed up by strategic questions: “To be,...
by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business, Research, Strategy, Technology
What does a CTO do? by The CTO is the Chief Technology Officer. What does a CTO do in a high-tech company? It is the most ill-defined of the CxO jobs. The trick is figuring out what activities can make a difference and which are merely motions. When I briefly took the...
by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business, Research, Technology
Industrial Research Management by Bert Sutherland April 26, 2022 by Lance Reprinted by permission of the author Industrial Research...
by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business, DARPA, Technology
My Years at DARPA : how to create and prevent technology surprise April 26, 2022 by Lance When I ran the electronics technology directorate at DARPA I had the wonderful job of examining a big percentage of all of the advanced electronics research in the country....
by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business, Strategy
Career Planning: How to get laid off April 26, 2022 by Lance There are lots of ways to get fired and there are lots of ways to get laid off, the distinction being that getting fired is directly about you and getting laid off is purportedly first about your position. ...
by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business, Life
What goes around. To say thank you, pay it forward. April 26, 2022 by Lance Over my career I have been blessed by the many people have coached me, helped me, and given me a break here or there. In the vast majority of these cases, reciprocity is impossible because of...
