Lean by Design

A posting on NyQuist Capital caught my eye the other day. It elaborated on another post by Paul Kedrosky, that was made in response to MicroSoft boasts over its cumulative investment in R&D. It got me thinking about some of my experiences supporting, and in other cases challenging, some pretty large R&D budgets. As a [...]

There has been a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and hype this past year over the construction of municipal WiFi networks that promise inexpensive, or free, wireless Internet access and service. In addition to offering a pretty enticing convenience for people in those municipalities, the more uniform coverage may enable practical deployments of VoIP over WiFi [...]

Despite the title of this posting I am, in fact, totally convinced that the wireless internet represents a key pillar of the internet and its evolution. Only the mobile internet has the potential to support my real-time communication and data access needs. I am away from my desktop PC more than I have access it, [...]

I want to come back to an overarching theme for this blog, one that I have alluded to when writing on changing business models in Telecom, but one that warrants further explanation – that is; the disaggregation of the value chain in Telecom. Telecom has lagged the computing / IT industry in some of the [...]