Are we afraid of big improvements (breakthroughs)?

For many years I am being driven by the desire to generate leap jumps (breakthroughs) in performance for my customers.   Let me define what in my eyes is a breakthrough in performance – it is an improvement of at least an order of magnitude, without any new technology breakthrough. A few examples: Reducing production […]

Our experience, friend or foe?

As we accumulate years of experience we also accumulate valuable knowledge. We learn from our mistakes (hopefully) and gain better intuition about things. This is excellent. However, experience is a double edged sward, on the other side it blocks our vision and narrows our width of thought. We believe that “we know” to the extent, […]