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20 Years in Product Development: My Journey

Wrote this a while ago…when I reached 20 years of experience. This post is atleast 15 years old… Work Experience 20 years in Product Development and Product Design Services. Mistral Solutions Inc 2007 – Now Vice President – Design Services (U.S.A) Technical front end for interfacing with customers, and Partners Program management for all projects […]

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Winning the lottery

All my life I have wanted to win a lottery. I have fantasized about the car’s I would buy, the large house with a garden that would be mine. I haven’t won one yet. Is it even possible that over the past thirty of forty years that the fantasy came alive in my mind I […]

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National Entrepreneur’s day, epithet by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in AntiFragile

“Most of you will fail, disrespected, impoverished, but we are grateful for the risks you are taking and the sacrifices you are making for the sake of economic growth of the planer and pulling others out of poverty. You are at the source of our antifragility. Our nation thanks you”

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“Well done is better than well said." –Benjamin Franklin, American inventor and statesman

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Inherent complexity of systems

I write this note as I am reading “Object oriented analysis and design with applications” written by Booch, Jacobson and Rumbaugh. I took the time out to write this note because of the cynicism that hit me approximately page 224. I have been looking for an easy way to define a system. I have believed […]

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“Reputations are history in rumour form” – 12 dates of Christmas

heard this while watching a movie.

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“In the business world the rearview mirror is always clearer than the wind screen” – warren buffet

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“I’ve learned that you don’t get what you expect. You get what you inspect.” – meg Whitman at HP analyst briefing 10/4/2011

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“Education is not filling a pail. It is lighting a fire!”–William Yeats

As mentioned by Dean Kamen in CEA Magazine

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notes from reading Dr. Madan Mohan’s 23 Principles of successful product companies

Kim and Maubrogne (1997) 5 Major dimensions of strategy between high growth and other companies. Attempt to change the industry conditions Focus on bettering themselves than just beat the competition Let unprofitable customers go Shed commodity resources/skills Think in terms of offering total solutions to the customers Hagel and brown (2005) Growth opportunities will be […]