Pico Iyer: Where is home?
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In the past, it has been customary for countries to desire a strong currency ā or at the very least a stable one. However, post the financial crisis its seems a strong and stable currency is not always at the top of the priority list. In fact. A depreciating currency stands a country in good…
Google has announced that Eric Schmidt, the firm’s chief executive, will be handing over the reigns as the company’s CEO to co-founder Larry Page. Schmidt will become executive chairman, dedicating his efforts to acquisitions and government relations, while continuing to act as an adviser to Page and Sergey Brin, Google’s other co-founder. While surprising, the…
Disruptive innovation has been praised by entrepreneurial and large, well-established organizations alike, including Intel and Salesforce.com. But According to Harvard Business Review, the theory increasingly stands in danger of becoming the victim of its own success. This, being due to the fact that it’s generally misunderstood and its basic tenets frequently misapplied. As it happens, many…
Headline: “Business Metrics Gone Awry: The Dark Side of Relying Solely on KPIs” Subheading: “Corporate Missteps Highlight the Pitfalls of Blindly Chasing Key Performance Indicators” We read about it all the time; in a shocking turn of events, the business world is abuzz with meteoric fall of some company and its CEO, its CFO, or…
The Misconception of Reliability and Availability After a 10 year reliability journey that takes me across the appliances, power generation, aerospace, component placement, electronics design, wireless, and finally the cable industries, I would like to share my astonishing discovery with my friends and foes alike.Ā My focus will be on the cable industry where my recent…
Data recording technology devices commonly found in airliners called “black boxes” allow investigators to discover what caused an airliner to crash. Similar recording systems are fitted to some trains, ships and lorries. Now a bill in America’s Congress seeks to make it compulsory for data recorders to be fitted to all cars by 2015. The idea is that…