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Title: Recession-Breaking Solution Idea for US 2009

Problem Brief:

The U.S. economy is struggling to get out of a very severe recession triggered by the 2009 housing-financial bubble debacle. Many companies have responded by scaling back employee numbers and salary to reduce liability cost in an attempt to maintain their balance sheet without dismantling the core business model.

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:

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 good capability and may perform very 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 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 from 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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Article Title:

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.

Author Biography: Jeff Lake

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