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Saturday, September 27, 2003
MIT Emerging Technologies Conference news.
Talks a bit about Dell: "At Dell, suppliers deliver materials every 90 minutes based on what customers order. The company turns over its inventory about 100 times a year...To determine what businesses his company wants to be in, Dell looks for large markets where there are inefficiencies or high mark-ups."
Has the worm turned or am I stoned!? This is the scientific management taken to the extreme - a total focus on efficiency and cost reduction. What the hell does this have to do with *emerging technologies*? Emerging technologies should be about the opposite - discontinuity, revolution, and redefining industries. That quote sounds like a b-school case study in supply-chain management in an 80's multinational!
The rest of the technologies mentioned are pretty uninspiring. I think the third world is going to be the source for the next generation of radical innovation - Boston and the Valley have been too much infected by the commercial meme to really dream massive earthshaking dreams anymore.
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