Technology advances drive change faster than most people expect, and this category follows the ideas and tools behind it. Our posts look at how innovation works, from the five orders of innovation and how venture capital and angel funding support new ideas, to Cathie Wood’s five disruptive platforms and how artificial intelligence is lifting the productivity of knowledge workers. We also explain technologies in plain language, such as 5G, and note how mobile phones have become a global tool.
A second thread is practical: how to run a business and get things done. Posts cover business consulting, customer acquisition and lifetime value, preparing a website in eight steps, goal setting and ten ways to be more productive. A few look at technology in everyday life, including genealogy software for family history and the way food production is being transformed.
These articles come from experience of building and advising businesses, and they pair well with the Disruption and AI categories. They share a view that new technologies tend to be underestimated when they start, then adopted rapidly once costs fall and the benefits are clear. Read them to understand how innovations spread, how to evaluate them, and how to use them in your own work and projects.
Technology advances drive change faster than most people expect, and this category follows the ideas and tools behind it. Our posts look at how innovation works, from the five orders of innovation and how venture capital and angel funding support new ideas, to Cathie Wood’s five disruptive platforms and how artificial intelligence is lifting the productivity of knowledge workers. We also explain technologies in plain language, such as 5G, and note how mobile phones have become a global tool.
A second thread is practical: how to run a business and get things done. Posts cover business consulting, customer acquisition and lifetime value, preparing a website in eight steps, goal setting and ten ways to be more productive. A few look at technology in everyday life, including genealogy software for family history and the way food production is being transformed.
These articles come from experience of building and advising businesses, and they pair well with the Disruption and AI categories. They share a view that new technologies tend to be underestimated when they start, then adopted rapidly once costs fall and the benefits are clear. Read them to understand how innovations spread, how to evaluate them, and how to use them in your own work and projects.
Genealogy is in vogue. Multiple TV series. But which software to use? The options are relatively limited. If you don’t have IT skills, then use an online system such as Ancestry or My Heritage. If you are more proficient, use one of the many desktop systems including Family Tree Maker, Roots Magic, Family Hittorian to make more complete trees.
AI is expected to lift knowledge worker productivity by 140% by 2030. AI training has decreased by over 65% per year since 2015 and models which cost $5m now would cost $500 by 2030.
The investment fund ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood explains the 5 disruptions happeing now and the 14 underlying technologies which form the basis of their investment strategy.
Food disruption is happening now, and some fail to see that by 2025 that the dairy industry will shrink by 1/3 and the beef and dairy industry facing 90% reduction by 2030.
There are 5 orders of innovation from individual components at order 1, to systems at 2, services at 3 to disruption of industry at order 5. Knowing this provides expectation of capital and time to market with new innovations.
Venture capital success in growing innnovation has been transformational. Along with internet speeds, the amouint and scale of vc funding of innovative companies.
5G is misunderstood and the conspiracy believers are out in full force. Here I try to make this simple so it can be understood. In undertanding some principles you can then decide which part you don’t like or things that are exciting.
Setting goals is a valuable exercise to allow focus and direction. These goal setting questions help not avoidance. The right approach, 10 minutes, and tools, goals can be valuable to life.
The mobile internet has taken over from the desktop. The number of mobile devices is expected to reach 18.22 billion by 2025, an increase of 4.2 billion devices compared to 2020 levels.
How do you get the right website for your business? Start planning. Start with who is going to visit your site, and what you want or how do you want your visitors to respond. This simple 8 point process helps smooth the design, construction and deployment of your business.
10 things to make your life more productive.
Avoid meetings without an agenda
Never take a call from someone you don’t know.
Permanently turn off your voice mail
Sort your email with an app.
Disable email and texting when you need to focus
Give social butterflies short shift
Eat well
Take a walk.
Make your decisions more quickly.
Disconnect for 12 hours each day.
CAC (customer acquistion) and LTV (life time value) are key metrics in all businesses, and most importantly in startup businesses. Learn more about CAC and LTV
Goal planning is easy to do, but few every do it as it is too complicated, does not seem important enough. Yet having some plan helps most people in their day to day life.
Do you want some direction in your business; or do you have some pressing concerns. Contact me, for focused business coaching and mentoring.
