Body of Knowledge

  • Forget Wi-Fi. Meet the new Li-Fi Internet

    Communications technology innovator, Harold Haas, is the pioneer behind a new technology that can communicate as well as illuminate. In this groundbreaking TED talk, Haas dares to answer the question: What if we could use existing technologies to provide Internet access to billions of people living in places where the infrastructure currenty does not allow…

  • The Unlikely Cities That Will Power the U.S. Economy

    Huntsville in Alabama may seem like one of the most unlikely cities to base a center for genomics and other biological-technological endeavors. Yet Huntsville turns out to be a great place to recruit high-tech workers. In fact, it’s one of a growing number of smaller U.S. cities, far from the grandiosity of Silicon Valley, that…

  • ERP Selection Survival Kit

    Who serves who?  Does Technology serve the people – or do the people serve technology? I started my business during the ā€œGolden Age of Technologyā€ back in 1985.Ā  This was a time when the power of computing was being brought to the individual level; a time of personal computers (starting with the Apple-II and IBM-PC)…

  • 5S Done Right

    5S. Five short Japanese words, each beginning with an ā€œSā€. The majority of employees in the industrial sector, and increasingly in the public sector, have heard about the ā€œ5Ssā€. The problem? The vast majority of companies trying to ā€œimplementā€ 5S fails, and does so repeatedly. Many mistake it as a concept for cleaning and tidying…