HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:36:57 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 location: https://richde.wordpress.com/comments/feed/ x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:36:57 GMT etag: "783a296e73f7e9ddc7238b70383c4aef" x-redirect-by: WordPress x-ac: 2.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=358.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:36:57 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:36:57 GMT etag: W/"783a296e73f7e9ddc7238b70383c4aef" content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 1.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=357.0 https://richde.wordpress.com When innovation and execution collide Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:38:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ https://richde.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/loose-cannons-volume-1/#comment-505 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:38:58 +0000 https://richde.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-505 […] In “Well, what kind of fraud is it?” Edward clearly lived in a different world, and the many “Loose Cannons” who I still hear from were never able to bridge the gulf.  Everyone seems to be a helpless […]

]]> https://richde.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/well-what-kind-of-fraud-is-it/#comment-504 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:38:54 +0000 https://richde.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-504 […] they were the problems of some alien world into which the GM R&D Center had been dropped.  In “Well, what kind of fraud is it?” Edward clearly lived in a different world, and the many “Loose Cannons” who I still hear from […]

]]> https://richde.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/loose-cannons-volume-1/#comment-503 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:38:51 +0000 https://richde.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-503 […] was leveraged by several years of prior research, and  – refer to my last post “Loose Cannons, Volume 1” — this is the way managers are supposed to select promising technologies. The […]

]]> https://richde.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/loose-cannons-volume-1/#comment-502 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:38:47 +0000 https://richde.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-502 […] address was that Frosch was talking about something like the “future value of research” (see “Loose Cannons”) until I read the published version of the speech[1]: I have seldom, if ever, met a customer for an […]

]]> https://richde.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/well-what-kind-of-fraud-is-it/#comment-501 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:38:44 +0000 https://richde.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-501 […] I want point out something more fundamental that I think helps explain why Alice and Edward in “Well, kind of fraud is it?” lived in worlds that were on a collision course from the beginning: many R&D managers are […]

]]> https://richde.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner/#comment-500 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:37:39 +0000 https://richde.wordpress.com/?p=123#comment-500 […] “technology driven” is often not the best path to real innovation.  Part 1 of this post was distilled from a conversation with George H. Heilmeier, former director of DARPA, […]

]]> https://richde.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/proposition-13-and-innovation/#comment-499 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:37:35 +0000 https://richde.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-499 […] resources in determining the long-term health of  industries in a region.  Since I devoted my first post to exploring the impact of fluid social mixing on the Silicon Valley culture, I thought it would be […]

]]> https://richde.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner/#comment-498 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:37:28 +0000 https://richde.wordpress.com/?p=123#comment-498 […] Heilmeier was a master  of getting a seat at the table for R&D (see “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner“), but worlds can also collide when they expand, and as the 2009 Grace Murray Hopper […]

]]> https://richde.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/well-what-kind-of-fraud-is-it/#comment-497 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:35:12 +0000 https://richde.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-497 […] as we saw in “Well, what kind of fraud is it?“, worlds collide when there is confusion about context. The collisions are damaging to […]

]]> https://richde.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/loose-cannons-volume-1/#comment-496 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:35:04 +0000 https://richde.wordpress.com/?p=36#comment-496 […] thought it would be a good occasion to  reflect on how easy it is for Loose Cannons to get smashed by colliding […]

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