When your most important product development project is a year behind schedule (and the schedule has been revved three times), who would you call to get the project back on track? When the project’s unrealistic cost constraints wall of the design space where the solution resides, who would you call......
Two important questions to help you grow your business: Is the problem worth solving? When do you want to learn it’s not worth solving? No one in your company can tell you if the problem is worth solving, not even the CEO. Only the customer can tell you if the......
If you use fewer natural resources, your product costs less. If you use recycled materials, your product costs less. If you use less electricity, your product costs less. If you use less water to make your product, your product costs less. If you use less fuel to ship your product,......
Everything has a half-life, but we don’t behave that way. Especially when it comes to success. The thinking goes – if it was successful last time, it will be successful next time. So, do it again. And again. It’s an efficient strategy – the heavy resources to bring it to......
In last week’s post, I provided a chart that describes the sources of electricity for the United States. Coal is the largest source of electricity (38%) and natural gas is the next largest (25%). The largest non-carbon source is nuclear (22%) and the largest renewable sources are wind (6%) and......
How is your electricity made? Which source produces the most electricity? How much is made from zero-carbon sources? How much is made from renewable sources? In 2017, Otherlab was contracted by the Advanced Research Project Agency of the Department of Energy (ARPA-e) to review all available energy data sources and......
If you’re asked to do cost reduction, before doing that work, ask for objective evidence that the work to grow the top line is adequately staffed. You can’t secure your company’s future through cost reduction, so before you spend time and effort to grow the bottom line, make sure the......
What if the most profitable thing you could do was work that reduced the rise in the earth’s temperature? What if it was most profitable to reduce CO2 emissions, improve water quality or generate renewable energy? Or what if it was most profitable to do work that indirectly made the......
If you’re thankful for the success you’ve had, you’re in for a letdown because your success will be short-lived. And don’t take it personally – the Universe knows regression to the mean is real and it will bring you to your knees whether you believe it or not. Like with......
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