Economic growth, many argue, stems from technological innovation. Does technological innovation depend on the flow of STEM talent from our educational system? That certainly was not the case in the 19th and 20th centuries. Inventors emerged from all corners of society, few equipped with degrees in science and technology. The transformation from inventions to innovation […]
The US Department of Defense acquires systems to equip forces to assure the national security of the country. The process of acquiring systems is termed Acquisition, which involves a very complex organizational system across the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the four (now five) military services, and the aerospace/defense industry. It is very competitive. […]
I grew up in New England in the 1960s and 70s. My whole family was Republican. We supported John Chafee, Edmund Brooke, Eliot Richardson, and Nelson Rockefeller. Social liberals and fiscal conservatives. These types of Republicans are long gone. Nixon, then Reagan, and recently Trump discovered that courting southern whites could win elections. Social liberalism […]
The old normal involved lots of bus, metro, and uber rides to meetings with sponsors, colleagues, and friends in pursuit of new opportunities, progress on existing opportunities, and just plain socializing. Transit time was at least an hour per day and sometimes two, sitting in a bus, train, or car catching up on your email […]
I recently encountered an amazing app and I am dumbfounded as to how it works. It is called My History. You can watch any sporting event from the past, for example, the Colts-Jets Super Bowl of 1969. If you watch with the My History app, the Jets do not necessarily win. Their upset quest is […]
How can we address alternative facts? I think we should differentiate realities that can be empirically verified versus assertions about why these realities have occurred. Succinctly, we need to differentiate data and evidence from various pundits’ interpretations. I am constantly amazed at the wealth of pundits available who will comment on anything. There are thousands […]
I have been studying various treatises on our platform economy – how Alphabet (Google), Amazon, and Apple, as well as Facebook and perhaps Microsoft, have become so central in our economy. These companies provide platforms on which many other services are delivered. Of course, the Internet enables almost all of this. It is a platform […]
A recent issue of The Economist projected when humans will become obsolete, fully replaced by machines. Some AI researchers projected 125 years, with AI researchers being the last folks replaced. Other projections ranged from 30 years to 200. How might this happen? I assume that humans will design machines that progressively take over human jobs. […]
Academia has become rather frustrating. Out of control costs have been leading to spiraling students debts, exceeding the total US credit card debt. Increasingly narrow and unreasonable criteria for tenure have led to people spending endless years in servitude. The overall academic value proposition has been completely eroded for all but the administrative leadership and […]
There have been 50 Super Bowls (SB). There have been 100 starting quarterbacks (QB). 62 of the 100 QBs have started more than one SB. This 62 includes 20 individual QBs. 36 of the 62 QBs won the SB, a 58% winning percentage. 38 (100 – 62) QBs have started only one SB. 14 of […]
There is growing evidence that NFL referees have been instructed to make calls – particularly pass interference calls and false start calls – to control the outcomes of NFL games. The NFL vehemently denies these accusations, but the data are very clear. The NFL knows the outcomes that will maximize television revenues as well as […]
Confidential sources have indicated that the NFL is considering some sweeping rule changes, all with a goal of increasing the entertainment value of the former sport. Unnamed executives indicated that, “Our goal is for fans to have fun, to go home with memories of exciting games when their team miraculously won despite the odds against […]
There is a wealth of self-proclaimed pundits providing pronouncements on sports, politics, the economy, and so on. There seem to be unlimited numbers of Democrat and Republican strategists. Some are wizened pros that have been through many campaigns, some successful and some less so. Many are quite young. Despite having seemingly no credentials, they are […]
This blog has been on hold for 18 months as I have transitioned from Atlanta to Hoboken, the sixth borough of New York City. I retired from Georgia Institute of Technology and am now on the faculty of Stevens Institute of Technology. I am still immersed in enterprise transformation, focused on healthcare delivery, higher education […]
