Manufacturing Profits you can retire on I was talking with one of our past clients a little while ago. They told me they had a problem. They said, “Ray, I nearly retired“! So I asked them what that meant. And … Continue reading →

Software Costing There is an old saying that goes something like this: “hardware is almost free and comes from China; but software is actually free and comes from India”. Actually not such on old saying, and certainly not true. But … Continue reading →

Design Led Innovation Traditional Product Development comes up with the product idea, does the development, gets it into production and then tries to find customers to sell it to.   Design Led Innovation tries to turn that process around so … Continue reading →

Requirements Capture versus Product Specification In our post on Requirements Capture I looked at how we can go about understanding what a product has to do, who it has to do it for, and how to assess that. The output … Continue reading →

Internet of Things The Internet of Things, or IoT as it is abbreviated to, is still an emerging trend. But it is driving some substantial changes in some industry areas. This includes the 4th Industrial Revolution, also known as Industry … Continue reading →