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Automobile reinvention is China's strategic move to graduate from idea importer to exporter

Automobile Reinvention—China’s adventure to graduate from idea importer to exporter

Made in China 2025 places the automobile Reinvention agenda at the top. China began the journey of building the automobile industry by adding value out of labor and locally available…

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Vulnerability of America’s Technology Superiority

The vulnerability of America’s technology superiority has already raised concern. But, is it due to just China’s IP infringement? Or, is there a systematic pattern of erosion of America’s edge?…

Deciphering Robots, Automation and Jobs demands smarter strategy and policy for having net positive effect on jobs, growth, and sustainability

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Deciphering Robots, Automation, and Jobs: for smarter understanding, strategy, and policy

Deciphering Robots, Automation, and Jobs attempts to shed light on non-conclusive ongoing discourse: future of work or jobs. In fact, technology has multi-dimensional effects on jobs. The net effect on…

Shedding light on industrial economy benefits from the reoccurring patterns in the evolution of five generations of light sources

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Innovation History

Shedding Light on Industrial Economy—reoccurring patterns in light source evolution

Starting from building back better America to massive job loss threats in developing economies, the human race has been bewildered by daunting issues. At the core, it is the dynamics…

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Strategies for Building High-tech Industry

High-tech has been a lucrative industry. Notably, it has been at the core of driving the third industrial revolution. Moreover, it will remain at the core of unfolding the Fourth…

Reducing uncertainty in innovation demands focus on understanding innovation dynamics as unified theory, technology management, and systematic ideas

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Reducing Uncertainty in Innovation by Focusing on Discipline

Although Innovation holds the key in opening an endless frontier of growth, high-level uncertainty in systematically ferreting out value from the market is a challenge. Hence, we need to focus…

Japan’s quality from borrowed Ideas through quality management practice out of the lesson of Deming and Six Sigma is an oversimplification of the reality

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Japan’s Quality from Borrowed Ideas—Deming and Lean Six Sigma Good Enough?

The impression that Japan’s quality from borrowed ideas out of the practice of quality lesson of Dr. Deming and Lean Six Sigma appears to be misleading. The reality is far…

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Sustaining Innovation Failure of Walkman

Upon the sale of 400 million Walkman music players, what happened to it? Why did the Walkman become obsolete? Both successes and failures of innovations are not magical. Innovations are…

Incremental innovation of smartphone camera has grown as the core area for sustaining smartphones in competition, and to cause disruption

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Incremental Innovation of Smartphone Camera—grown as sustaining and disruptive innovation

The challenge for winning with Innovation is not about generating a Flow of Ideas and engaging in random experimentation. Instead, the challenge is systematically ferreting out value from the market…

Third industrial revolution is the outcome of a series of creative waves of destruction due to the invention and continued progression of the Transistor

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Third Industrial Revolution—software & data

Unlike the past two industrial revolutions, innovations have been unfolding in the software and information space driving the third industrial revolution. The Transistor is the technology core. Continued progression of…

The second industrial revolution is due to the uprising of a number of creative waves of innovation driven by technology cores like ICE and electricity

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Second Industrial Revolution in Perspective

This writeup articulates the 2nd industrial revolution as the unfolding of creative waves around a set of emerging technology core

First industrial revolution comprises of a series of creative waves powered by the steam engines which kept unfolding during the period 1760-1870

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First Industrial Revolution Unfolded as Creative Waves

How does an industrial revolution form? Despite the long history of the human race, why did the first industrial revolution take place so late? Does it mean that prior to…

History & Observations

Automobile Reinvention—China’s adventure to graduate from idea importer to exporter

Vulnerability of America’s Technology Superiority

Deciphering Robots, Automation, and Jobs: for smarter understanding, strategy, and policy

Shedding Light on Industrial Economy—reoccurring patterns in light source evolution

Strategies for Building High-tech Industry

Reducing Uncertainty in Innovation by Focusing on Discipline

Japan’s Quality from Borrowed Ideas—Deming and Lean Six Sigma Good Enough?

Sustaining Innovation Failure of Walkman

Incremental Innovation of Smartphone Camera—grown as sustaining and disruptive innovation

Third Industrial Revolution—software & data

Second Industrial Revolution in Perspective

First Industrial Revolution Unfolded as Creative Waves

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