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With the imminent arrival of the new iPhone 4 I thought I would share these kind of life thoughts from Steve Jobs of Apple.  Linked here.

I like his perspective.

PIIGS are the 5 European countries that are most exposed at the moment and threatening the Euro.

This is a link to a great website with some easy to understand video explaination.

Enjoy!

I need a technical genius to join the team … must be good with computers, algorithms, databases and the web. … your suggestions?

As a nascent entrepreneur myself, I was interested to find this new nascent entrepreneur website.

The website is work in progress by the sound of it but definitely something I would be interested in joining, if its put together well – I have sign-up for up dates at least.

This link gives a great visual representation of the UK population. It shows male / female numbers, aged 1 – 85years old. Most interestingly, it shows how the profile has changed and will change over time – between the 1970’s until 2080’s !

Having come from an automotive engineering world where simulation has long since been adopted as the way to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs of design and manufacture, it is surprising to discover lower adoption in other sectors, industrial or otherwise.

Recently I took on a new customer who is in the engineering software sales field. They offer solutions to automotive but also in any industrial sector; aerospace, energy, motor sports etc.

This has led me to really think about simulations place and what the benefits really are. Have we all been duped by awesome software sales teams (possibly), or, (as it more probably) does simulation provide a tangible and quantifiable benefit to business capability and therefore its competitive advantage?

The fundamental physics of mechanics, fluids and electrics don’t change so why has there been lower adoption of simulation in other industrial sectors so far?

Its a question I don’t have a definitive answer too, at the moment at least, but its something I am now deeply considering for my new customer.

As ever, I would welcome your comments.

Currently doing some background research. This is a great little animated graph showing population distribution over time, past and present.

It is the eagerly anticipated start to the F1 season and the first race is at Bahrain, somewhere I spent the very early years of my life. This video shows Mark Webber in the RedBull F1 simulator (something not often shown to the public …) driving the new for 2010 circuit layout.

An export led, high technology Britain is the future, recommended by James Dyson. click here for the pdf.

I agree with him actually and hope his requests and recommendations come to pass. We are a country of inventors and the world should benefit more from that. We are also a country of conservative investors, cautious and risk averse so I believe the biggest challenge is cultural – a consumerist service industry has generated an addiction to easy, quick cash and fast returns, who is brave enough to buck this trend?

This is a good article on Marketing perception and its real purpose in a business.

“The aim of marketing is to make selling unnecessary.”
Peter Drucker