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Leveraging Moore’s law – The Daily PPILL #44

Leveraging Moore’s law – The Daily PPILL #44

Most of you reading this will be familiar with Moore’s law. As other laws, it is not something grand that governs the universe, but some relationship that arose from observation. Moore’s law roughly states that computing power doubles about every two years...
The Michelin Guide – The Daily PPILL #43

The Michelin Guide – The Daily PPILL #43

I confess I only heard about this story fairly recently. It was on some random room on Clubhouse. It happens to be that when the Michelin brothers founded their tire company, there wasn’t much demand for their product. To sell more tires, they needed a reason...
Doves, Hawks and other animals – The Daily PPILL #42

Doves, Hawks and other animals – The Daily PPILL #42

I have always been fascinated by Game Theory. I haven’t been able to practice it that much, because -while you would argue that it could be used everywhere- the scenarios in life where it is possible to take a step back and theorize, are few. The theoretical...
Sounded good on paper – The Daily PPILL #41

Sounded good on paper – The Daily PPILL #41

Sounded good on paper” – he said. Which was even odder to say, as in that situation, the paper would be soaking in water, and the ink running. This is a somewhat embarrassing story about my seamanship. It happened a couple of years ago. At the time, we...
Diversity: On which axis? – The Daily PPILL #40

Diversity: On which axis? – The Daily PPILL #40

We hear a lot about diversity, and the visibility we are giving to this issue is certainly an improvement over what we had before. But we have decided to look -in the best case- only at the diversity axis mentioned in The Constitution: Gender, Race, and National...
UVP – The Daily PPILL #39

UVP – The Daily PPILL #39

Ah! The UVP! or “Unique Value Proposition”. Determining the UVP of a product, service, or even a company is probably one of the most useful exercises in management. Forget about your “elevator pitch”, this is the one to work on. I have seen...