Article Title: Recession-Breaking Solution Idea for US 2009
Problem Brief:
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After the main bubble impact was felt and the reduced employment actions were completed. What was leftover is a new business environment where there are not enough people that will buy non-critical products or services or replaced by lower cost items.
Businesses begin starving for customers that are too few to support the existing critically scaled back companies. Further scaling back or waiting for something to change that improves customer demand and business picks up seem to be the only choices many businesses have.
Some businesses start to roll up their sleeves and try to invent new ways to grow their way out of the business malaise, but oftentimes find with demand being too low that even a great new product idea is not worth risking precious capital resources or is faced with no practical means to acquire new capital from many equally tight-fisted sources.
Solution Brief:
The key to solving the recession recovery problem is to first stimulate demand. People and businesses typically buy products and services from businesses with money. When people and businesses have positive income, a saved money excess and feel certain of future success with low risk then business product and services demand will increase because people and businesses will invest their money more freely to try and gain the benefits offered from new things.
Money if spent prudently on new products and services will have a value gain in the benefit derived from a product or services use over time. The gain eventually reverses the downward spiral into an upwards one where gains are used to expand and grow the value of invested money.
Key to stimulating recession-breaking demand is to have people with excess saved money that is allowed to be used for investing in any product or services, not just for critical need items like food, clothes, and basics.
Since companies must have buying customers to survive and grow. The best way to increase the number of buying customers and drive increased demand is to have as many of your customers gainfully employed and contributing to an effort that adds highest value to the economy.
Hiring people to provide an income is not enough. It is critical that businesses systematically and proactively plan and successfully integrate as many people into high value-add processes as possible. Human capital must not be wasted or allowed to be ill-utilized in a modern economy.
Free-enterprise in a capitalistic system is not a free-for-all but depends strongly on all of its members to pull together and help each other out at all times to encourage knowledge generation, new discovery, investment, risk, sharing, equality, strength, trustfulness, finding and doing as much value-producing work as possible.
Article Title:
Systematically Discover Business Unmet Needs
Introduction:
Businesses must address issues before they are observed and felt by the customer.
Description:
Business unmet need is defined as a hidden business issue that is not yet understood and has a potential to become a critical problem.
Problem Brief:
Business unmet needs are typically found after a customer problem is found, by then it’s too late to prevent a loss to cover the need to fix the customer problem. Engineering of business processes to optimize performance of an organizations functional components and critical interdepartmental communication interaction is increasingly important to getting it right the first time in today’s environment of getting more done with fewer resources.
It would be prudent for any business to find and correct business issues, like functional component problems, intergroup interaction or communication problems before they detrimentally impact your business.
Solution Brief:
The first step in discovery involves having a complete and well understood operations ideal model. You also need to accept that you won’t have a manageable or controllable system unless you understand it well enough to be able to model it and monitor it in real time.
With complete operations knowledge you will then need to perform a systems failure mode analysis. Create a breakout of each functional component output with responsibilities and key interactions from any input resources to learn about where the weaknesses exist in the design of your business process and learn what specific changes or work that needs to be done in order to eliminate or mitigate business issues. Use of a systematic procedure takes the guess work out of trying to do it again and makes it easier to test new proposed design improvement changes.
Conclusion:
Identifying areas with highest potential risk for variation and loss will assist management in systematically reengineering required changes into the business model that achieve a more robust system. Does more with less by enabling tradeoff understanding and provides a need driven business design change managed process. Making well understood business system design performance and robustness improvements that address unmet needs to resolve hidden business issues is an important goal in managing a business.
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Summary:
Business unmet needs are typically found after a
customer problem is found, by then it’s too late to prevent a loss to cover the
need to fix the customer problem. Creating a system operations process model and
performing a system failure mode effects analysis will enable systematic
analysis and decision making for adding value to the business process.
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What the …Netbook, Notebook, Mini-laptop or Desktop
Introduction:
How do you make the best choice with your hard earned money when you need to buy a computer?
Brief Reasoning:
Low cost netbooks are small, very light weight, easy to stow away and carry, has WIFI, networked, but is very limited and slows down when it comes to running most common large applications. Netbooks are great if all you need is a basic online connection for email and taking notes.
Some notebooks and mini-laptops are priced just above the netbook cost and a performance notebook may go 2 to 4x of a netbook cost and have larger displays, more computing power, memory, disk space, is larger to carry in a backpack, takes more power and battery life is typically a few hours. Notebooks are typically designed with a price point, to match performance with a range of moderate to very good capability and may perform well for most of today’s user application needs. A good notebook can easily do most any computing that is needed with reasonably good performance and has the advantage of complete under-the-arm computer portability and fits on top of your lap or any flat surface top.
Desktop computers range from very small to large boxes that are designed to run off AC wall power and left in a fixed location at a personal workspace-desk or area in a cabinet as an application server. Desktop costs range as low as a netbook and typically are at a lower cost than a notebook with similar capability. For the best value, one can usually find a much higher performance computer, more CPU, RAM, disk space, powerful graphics, have fast responding applications, for games, video image processing, and video phones. Overall, the desktop computer is the best choice if portability is not required.
Conclusion:
A person buying a computer today wants to use their money carefully when investing in computer technology to get the most value and have a satisfying experience and a long time benefit.
It’s clear that a performance desktop computer system is a much better choice than most laptops for fixed location applications. However if portability is mandatory and good performance is needed a more expensive notebook (laptop) is a best fit. If you need it all, high performance and portability, very light weight and small are mandatory and basic computing is fine then a buy both a netbook for the portability and a main fixed high performance desktop computer to get the best experience and benefits of fast application performance computing of from a desktop and the ease of mobility with a netbook.
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Summary:
When you need to buy a computer system you will find a wide array of possible
choices available and that making a final decision sometimes is a matter of
personal preference and your budget. Most persons have a good idea what they
need to use the computer for today and in the future but don’t know exactly the
how to fit that with what is available to select from. This personal user
knowledge is the guide along with this article in finding a best computer
selection from netbook, notebook (laptop), mini-laptop, or desktop systems.
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Radically New Innovation Needed
Introduction:
30 years ago talk of robotics in our future was considered as more from science fiction than an engineering reality as seen as commonplace today. Much of the innovation started when people in manufacturing companies and high technology industries found the extreme value in productivity, reduced cost, performance gain, and better quality were available when a process was computer automated and regulated with repeatable and program controlled accuracy.
Main Point:
Important as automation improvements have been they no longer provide the extreme value-add comparative advantages for businesses. Future success needs to rely more on engineering to find radically new design or improvement ideas and the ability to efficiently translate those high value changes into new supporting business systems.
Problem Brief:
Today automation in manufacturing and industry is pervasive in almost everyplace you look and businesses are required to use and upgrade to the best capability improvements just to have a competitive performing product.
With improved capability comes increased cost and on average unless the product return on investment is able to exceed break-even with enough to meet all of a businesses obligations and also have enough to sustain future costs of automation capability improvements a business may find itself unable to compete by chasing better returns with automation as a main strategy.
It is easy to think after so much productivity gain and savings that the automation strategy could have an endpoint of increased value, but for many who are ingrained the diminishing return is an unwelcome surprise.
Solution Brief:
What is needed to extract more out of today’s business process when an automation improvement strategy fails to give any large and lasting competitive advantage?
The solution lies in developing creative insights found when engineers are able to think out-of-box and ask questions about how something could be made to perform the same function but with fewer parts or with a completely different design structure that is simpler, lower cost, inherently more reliable and is not constrained by any or with fewer of the previous requirements. Thinking without specific component or structural requirement constraints unleashes new engineering creativity, enthusiasm, and openness about how to radically improve a product or design.
Bringing new ideas to the reality of changing of business plans, financing and new manufacturing scaling often is disruptive and is one of the highest hurdles to overcome for most businesses, especially if the current product competes with the new idea. Change is usually not a welcome path with a higher risk to follow easily unless it’s clear no other option exists for success.
Often times a new paradigm is too great for the people to follow and really get behind and push idea implementation because only a few may have the knowledge or training to add the value. When the organization is lacking ability to form immediate responses to the needs of building a new infrastructure, learning, optimizing and performing the new work it will often fail to achieve the critical mass necessary for a success. If the idea is truly a radical one usually there is more time to correct and learn before competitors catch up but not necessarily enough money to push it ahead, achieve business critical mass and success. There is not much room for error in getting a very new product on the right path to success. Usually engineers must be involved closely controlling the operations startup to ensure no mistakes are made and training to key follow-on personnel is accurate and complete.
Conclusion:
There are numerous strategy pitfalls for existing and new growing businesses in managing changes that will enable future success. Automation strategies that have given new life for many manufacturing industries in the last 30 years are now a way-of-life today and will remain so into the future.
Future successful businesses will need to tap engineering resources to find and drive implementation of radically new ideas or design improvements that may require the re-tooling, new learning and support re-training in order to break away from the competition when using only an automation improvement with cost reduction strategy.
The new metric of business future success maybe found in organizations that measure their ability to generate and implement radically new ideas and designs, breaking away from relying on the past and its most successful business strategies.
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Summary:
Automation strategies that have given new life for many manufacturing industries in the last 30 years are now a way-of-life today and will remain so into the future.
Extreme value is needed for high growth businesses and the automation strategy in the past was a fast and proven way to make this happen. Most industries have undergone automation and must now find new ways to differentiate their organization in the marketplace.
A new metric of business future success maybe found in organizations that measure their ability to generate and implement radically new ideas and designs, breaking away from relying on the past and its most successful business strategies.
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Article Title:
High Frequency Trading in the Open Market
Main Point:
High frequency trading is important in a class of situations where an extremely fast response to an event is critical for investing success.
Introduction:
Information about the world is happening more or less uncontrolled every second of the day in real-time. Public information is the controlled part of that information that investors use to make assessments of events related to business results of its operations.
Brief:
Public business information is acquired, translated, and reported by many news and information aggregating companies and systems. For this data collection to be of any use people and businesses need to be constantly communicating, consolidating, and extracting relevant content from trusted sources online, in broadcast news, radio, emails, telephone conversations, video feeds, newspapers magazines, books, and in daily conversations or meetings.
Important public investment information is found to have impact on the relative economic value of a businesses products, services or operations.
Access to the data collection of business related public information in practice is released for view at the same time for all to make use of. Investors view the new information and use it to help make decisions to buy or sell investments in businesses. Once the investor makes a decision to exchange money or other property for an investment, then typically a formal and controlled investment transaction order is processed, time-stamped and recorded and the parties involved then resolve payment exchange.
In order to keep up with the volume of daily transactions the whole process is constantly being improved and automated. Higher speed communications interfaces to speed data transfers and high performance computers and storage systems to perform programmed operations from database manipulations, arithmetic calculation, and logic decision making.
People and businesses that have the opportunity to connect into the investment information processing system at various points to improve the efficiency of their own systems oftentimes find, develop and optimize improvements that make investment information processing and decision making faster than others with the same access.
It doesn’t take a genius to see that in certain classes of events like the times when a significant potential market changing news event occurs that anyone who has the ability to view the new public information faster and then rapidly make correct decisions based on that information will have the advantage of being ahead of the rest of the population that would perform the same investment analysis and decisions with the available information. People who make and process correct and well-informed investment decisions ahead of the pack will have the highest opportunity to optimize the best value to be gained in making investment deals.
As always the first to arrive at a market sale, have the knowledge of an items demand value and is first in line to buy will invariably get the best deal and often may be able to turn around to the next person in line if demand is high enough to be able to resell almost immediately at a premium price. The last person in line to buy the item watches as the price continues to rise until a point is reached where interest wanes and the people who already own the item if they want to sell again must start dropping the price to attract new interest.
The group who are remaining interested to buy may see other competing opportunities that reduce or eliminates interest which causes the line of interested people to break apart or dissipate completely.
Each time an interested group of investor’s forms as a result of business related news there is an opportunity for the fastest players to gain market advantage in the open market deal if the right scenario plays out and demand is high and sustained.
Conclusion:
At whatever level people participate in the open market environment there are many opportunities to make or lose money and value when investing. Use of
High Frequency Trading or strategies in this article has no assurances or guarantees of any investment success whatsoever.
Higher speed information processing provides the benefit of more opportunities to find and make better investment deals in the open market today.
For the class of events that makes it important to be the first in line with well-informed decisions to make the transaction the persons or businesses using best in class high speed communication and processing systems are going to have the greatest opportunity to see the highest value when making open market investments.
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Summary:
High frequency trading is important in a class of situations where an extremely fast response to an event is critical for investing success.
At whatever level people participate in the open market environment there are many opportunities to make or lose money and value when investing.
For the class of events that makes it important to be the first in line with well-informed decisions to make the transaction the persons or businesses using best in class high speed communication and processing systems are going to have the greatest opportunity to see the highest potential value when making open market investments.
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Extreme is an Understatement, Wow is more
like it !
Main Point:
New multi-core computing architectures are available in Extreme product selections like the Intel(R) DX58SO board with Core(TM) i7 processor. Integrated solutions using these new components have found a significant advantage in mainstream application responsiveness and new productivity value.
Introduction:
Building your own computing platform with off-the-shelf available parts is a difficult task for a novice, but with experience and care a computer integrator today has the options to build a very powerful and fast computing platform at a reasonable cost.
Solution Brief:
I purchased the Intel(R) DX58SO board to replace an older desktop PC. First I removed the old PC parts from the Antec SOHO chassis and replaced the power supply with a newer 600 watt supply ATX12 v2.2 or greater.
Then I carefully installed with an ESD protection strap the big ATX sized DX58SO into the chassis. I found it easier to work with it when the box and board are horizontal on a sturdy table. Careful attention to power supply cable connections and processor installation is a combination of following detailed paper and online instructions.
The Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-940 boxed processor came with a nice big fan with heat-sink and since I planned to leave settings more or less stock I installed this fan.
For RAM memory I installed Corsair TR3X6G1600C9XMS3 6GB 3 X 2 because it was low cost and quality tested.
I used a XFX HD4850 + 1GB DDR3 RAM video card because it had lower power, low fan noise, low cost and respectable performance for most applications and games. (I really wanted the new HD5850, but thought it would push the power supply too far and require a higher cost.).
I used a low cost DVD-W SATA3 interface drive to boot and load software (Samsung SH-S223L and a SATA cable from spare parts).
Also I used the Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB, 32MB cache, SATA3 drive for main system storage.
Everything else plugged in easily (LCD monitor into HD4850 port 0) and powered up well.
As a first power-up check I set the DX58SO jumper to boot to bios selection then went to the bios monitor and verified the chassis fans, CPU fan, supply voltages and temperatures were correct and everything is recognized and running stable.
I tried an older Microsoft(R) XP Pro 32 bit operating system install and found it hung up and realized the needed drivers (64 bit) were not supporting critical hardware.
After some thought and online review I decided it
was much easier to just get an upgrade version of Microsoft Ultimate Vista SP1
since it has 32 and 64 bit operating system disks. I changed the boot jumper and
booted the 64 bit
After getting through the
I double checked using the
Conclusion:
After all the work to get this system running smoothly and optimizations I am very pleased with the results. Browsing to sites on the internet and most everything else is much faster (large sites just pop on the screen). The Microsoft ratings for system performance in all categories pegged at 5.9 after optimizations and updates.
For a reasonable cost, I found the performance boost will easily pay for itself with the time saved in getting more done. It’s nice to not be limited by the speed of your computer applications when you are trying to get some work done.
Thanks to all for producing components of this excellent computing platform.
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