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The new industrial revolution

September 28, 2012Technology3D printing, a lot of hardware, Automation, Brooklyn, Business, CNC, Computer-aided design, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Industrial design, Kickstarter, light manufacturing industry, MakerBot, MakerBot Industries, Manufacturing, manufacturing world, Marc Andreessen, metal, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, New York, New York City, Numerical control, odesk, Ouya, Pebble, Printing, Prototype, Shapeways, software runs, software-based solutions, software-driven robot, Solid freeform fabrication, supply chain, US federal reserve

The industrial revolution is about to turn a new page.

Pricing a Tablet

September 2, 2011Business3G, amazon, Android, app store, Apple, Apple Inc., clear leader, Computer hardware, Craigslist, Cupertino, eBay, enjoyable device, hand device, Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett-Packard Company, HP, HP TouchPad, HP WebOS, iOS, ipad, iTunes, kindle, Kindle store, leader, Manufacturing, operating system, Pricing, Smartphone, smartphones, Strategy, suggested retail price, supply chain, Tablet, Tablet computers, Tablet PC, technology costs, Touchpad, Touchscreens, WebOS, WiFi

How much should a competitor to the iPad sell for?

Google

Google Acquiring Motorola

August 15, 2011Business, MediaAndroid, Apple Inc., Cable TV, Carl Icahn, Cisco, contract manufacturing offerings, Cupertino, Google, Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, HP, HTC, HTC Corporation, Larry Page, leader, Manufacturing, manufacturing divisions, Map services, Microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows, Motorola, Motorola Mobility, Motorola Today, Nokia, Nortel, online marketplace, Patent Filing, Reorganization, Research In Motion, S3, S3 Incorporated, Samsung, Samsung Group, satellite broadcasts, Smartphone, smartphones, strong player, United States, wireless email, YouTube

Why Google acquiring Motorola makes sense.

Make Stuff

The New Artisans

August 14, 2011Business, TechnologyArtisan, artisan supply chain, Brooklyn, contract manufacturers, contract manufacturing, Economic development, final product, Industrial Revolution, industrial revolution infrastructure, Industrialisation, Industry, Just-in-time, Manufacturing, manufacturing goods, manufacturing specialists, Marketing, New York, New York City, potential products, Simplifying, software problem, United States, value chain

The internet is heralding the post-industrial age.

Metrics — Weighting the Metrics

October 20, 2005BusinessAJAX, API, Business, eBay, expectation management, external network, Internet Explorer, Internet users, Inventory, Management, Manufacturing, Marketing, Mergers and acquisitions, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operations research, Search, search engine, Supply chain management

Metrics weeks continues with a review of how to weight metrics. So far, I’ve looked into who, in a company could benefit from metrics. I then delved into two different types of metrics: hard metrics, which can easily be measured, and soft metrics, which cannot. Today, I’m going to try to figure out how this all weights out. Grouping the metrics In order to figure out weighting, I first started to think about how to group different metrics. For this purpose, I looked at things like the base value (which would give us a baseline as to how much a business is worth based solely on revenue and revenue growth), inventory (looking at things like traffic, reach, and output, because they all give us some data points as to the growth of monetizable assets in the future), consumer involvement (looking at info like links, subscribtions, and comments to define the value of customers), and growth potential (including some more fuzzy measure of potential growth and the advantages of the integration value). My reasoning for grouping things in this way was that it might make it easier to figure out weighting across those large catch-all categories (and, if there is any…