Posted in Management, Start ups, Managing engineers, Strategy on Aug 31st, 2007 No Comments »
The markets are a sea of change, and the change comes faster with each passing year. The value of a company is no longer based on its ability to produce a particular product. Rather, the value is now based on the company’s ability to produce new products. You still need a factory to build products; […]
Posted in Software on Aug 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Engineers often become quite zealous over a new technology. “This will change the world!” they cry, “And replace all the other existing stuff!” The new technology may change a part of how the world does certain things (which is the engineer’s whole world, perhaps), but rarely if ever will replace the existing stuff.
To explain […]
Posted in Managing engineers on Aug 24th, 2007 No Comments »
We must strive to think of our companies in dynamic rather than static terms. I have written earlier about the transition of a company’s organization, management and culture as it grows past the critical 100th employee mark and beyond. We must think of our individual employees in dynamic terms as well. Typically we hire someone […]