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Critical Action Planning – Rock Simple Capacity and Skills Planning
View image | gettyimages.com Your project is capacity limited, but without a Critical Action Plan, you don’t know how limited. You may think you need another engineer or technician, but a Critical...
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Critical Action Planning – Eleven Best Practices For Managing Long lead Items
FabricaRusia (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Vendors have lead times. New custom components can have really long lead times. Long lead components are the most incompressible of project tasks, so you need to...
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Critical Action Planning – Why Greater Task Granularity Wins
View image | gettyimages.com Greater task granularity takes a little more work, but it’s worth it. Here’s why. Enables better estimates of work units. It’s a lot easier to get accurate estimates with...
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Critical Action Planning – How to Manage Through Poor Visibility (e.g....
English: Tree in fog Visibility next to nothing on bridleway through Foxlane Plantation (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Managing concept phase projects is challenging with any project management tool or...
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Star Medical Device Engineer – Needs Versus Wants
I had coffee with a former colleague last week, and he told me something surprising he learned about himself. His new company has bench desking, and everyone’s space is a little less than three feet...
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New England Venture Funded Medical Device Startup List 2015 Q4
I’ve been tracking first-time venture financing of medical device companies in New England since 2005. Whew! Startups are where innovation really happens. It takes the dedicated focus of a startup to...
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Lessons From Tesla – Segment Sequencing To Build A Brand
I’ve had a series of Tesla posts on my mind for a while, but finding the time to write them has been elusive until now. I’ll post them over the next few weeks. Tesla is today’s “It Car” – the cool,...
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Lessons From Tesla – Service Is Not a Profit Center
In almost every business, customers weigh the downside of poor product reliability more than the upside of new product features. Consumer demand for reliability has driven automotive industry design...
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Lessons From @TeslaMotors – Rethinking the Role of the Dealer
Medical device companies and auto manufacturers depend on a network of dealers or distributors, to market, sell and service manufacturers’ products around the world. It’s the accepted way of doing...
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Lessons from @TeslaMotors – Scale Your Vision With Your Accomplishments
Tesla Battery Factory No one does the vision thing better than Elon Musk. But he is even a visionary about vision. His grand visions inspire consumers and employees. But he also knows that visions need...
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