Author: Ray Keefe
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Disruptive Innovation in Photography
Disruptive Innovation Clayton Christensen in his book The Innovator’s Dilemma showed us that the business drivers of our current customers blinds us to emerging but currently unsuitable technology that eventually takes over our market. This has led to a focus on Innovation that looks to be disruptive as its primary goal. And I have come to the conclusion that this…
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Precision Electronics Technology Supplier Award
Precision Electronic Technologies Supplier Award 2017 was a big year at Successful Endeavours. Lots of new projects and some world first products as well as operating out of our New Premises in Narre Warren and adding some staff. One of the things that makes it possible for us to complete Product Development project quickly is…
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IEEE Collabratec
IEEE IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, is the largest professional engineering body in the world and has a world wide focus. I am a Senior Member and have always found it worthwhile. In the days before the Internet was as useful as it is now, they were the best source of regular…
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CES 2018
CES 2018 The annual Consumer Electronics Show has wrapped up in Las Vegas and a lot of exciting announcements were made. IEEE Spectrum CES2018 put together a summary. Here are some that I found particularly interesting. 5G 5G is expected to launch ahead of schedule with phone manufacturers supporting it toward the end of…
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Top 100 Global Technology Leaders
Top 100 Global Technology Leaders Thomas Reuters have released their list of the Top 100 Global Technology Leaders and here is a summary. The original article appears at Top 100. Top 10 Global Technology Leaders Microsoft Intel Corp Cisco Systems Apple Alphabet IBM Texas Instruments Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing SAP Accenture 10 Global Technology Leaders…
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IoT Drives Change
IoT Change Catalyst The Internet of Things, or IoT, continues to break new ground. Although there are still many things to be worked out, there is no doubt it will create new opportunities and enable value propositions previously unimaginable. So I was please when Garrick Stanford from RS Components sent me an infographic looking at…
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Australian Manufacturing Continues Strong Growth
Australian Manufacturing Grows Last night I was at the SEMMA (South East Melbourne Manufacturers Alliance) end of year get together at the Nissan Casting Plant in Dandenong. We were celebrating another year of Australian Manufacturing, and in particular Melbourne Manufacturing. The Nissan Casting Plant is a great example of how we can compete globally. Nissan pulled…
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Nadine Champion on Winning
Nadine Champion At the most recent Casey Cardinia Business Breakfast Nadine Champion presented 10 Seconds of Courage which also happens to be the title of her book. Here is what she shared with us. She learned it from martial arts, but it applies to everything. I copied it down in point form so I’ll keep it…
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Intellectual Property Strategy
Intellectual Property The first step is to determine what Intellectual Property you actually have. This is usually broader than you initially think. Intellectual Property Audit So before you can have an Intellectual Property Strategy, you will need to do an Intellectual Property Audit or IP Audit. IP Australia has an excellent guide to how…