Closing the Loop #ensw
The Nest thermometer is by far my favorite gadget purchase of 2012. Its spendy at $250 but if you consider that a 1% +/- change in your heating/cooling setting can tilt your yearly bill by 5%, accuracy and smart meters are valuable. You’ll make up the cost in savings in due time. Wi-fi connectivity means [...]
Social Media Adoption in Business – Wanna Know?
Social Media is reaching mainstream adoption in the enterprise – right? Do we really know that? Or are we just speculating? Until now, we were just speculating – we assumed, presumed, and deducted from most research or projects we have seen thrown around in the press, quoted ad-nausea in presentations, and generally not knowing for sure. [...]
Don’t Focus Solely on Design
The passing of Steve Jobs, his subseqent biography and the recent HBR article on his management Photo credit: courtesy of Catapult Global principles has stoked tremendous interest in the importance of design in building great products and companies. Designing great products is a brilliant notion… hard to do but easy to see how effective it [...]
Insourcing more than a political slogan
Insourcing is on US TV every day thanks to back and forth between the Obama and the Romney campaigns. Outsourcers may chuckle, smirk and discount the term as it is used in an opportunistic, nationalistic way. But they should be wary as Randy …
