Monthly Archives: July 2012

Better is the Enemy of Good Enough.

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Dave Berkus

Getting any product to market is an act composed of a series of compromises in quality, product perfection, feature-functionality, and cost effectiveness.  If every development engineer could control the release date of the component or product for which s/he is … Continue reading →

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Plan for your R&D Tax.

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Dave Berkus

There is a life cycle for any product, and it is much shorter on average today than five years ago, especially in the technology world. Companies that are successful with their first product must begin thinking about the costs of … Continue reading →

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Move your team from competence to excellence.

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Dave Berkus

When a new CEO or manager is hired into a company, for a while lots of energy flows from the top and new ideas seem to be generated daily.  It is one reason not to fear the unknown when upper … Continue reading →

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Reinvent your business with bits not atoms.

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Dave Berkus

If only newspaper publishers, book publishers, record companies, and movie producers would have had the vision to see their future as we now see it, we might have become a digital society with much less disruption and loss of jobs … Continue reading →

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