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J. T. Pedersen's Blog – October 2011 Archive (5)

Innovation—Pre-Engineered Data Centers

Funny, one of the things they don’t tell you as a Cloud service provider, is that the boundaries of the Cloud aren’t white, fluffy, and ambiguous. Quite the opposite as a matter of fact. They’re cold, rigid, and expansion can be expensive.

Certainly, from the consumers’ perspective, that’s exactly what the Cloud is. But use a leaf blower to clear away the puff ‘n fluff, and you’ll find there’s something rather solid inside. And, it costs money.

In a…

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Added by J. T. Pedersen on October 31, 2011 at 12:38pm — No Comments

Why So Negative? Can’t You Be Positive?

This morning I gave a presentation related to product management. I enjoy giving this particular presentation as we explore topics like: product roadmaps; business plan; target markets, and managing scope (feature creep).

In discussing target markets, and knowing your customer, I use one slide in which I suggest they ask their customers, “What keeps you up at night?”

One of…

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Added by J. T. Pedersen on October 21, 2011 at 3:21pm — No Comments

Surprised? Charging Stations Outpace Their Cars

I've been attending Alternative Energy meetings,

forums, and briefings for a couple years now. I also evaluate a number of

business plans, such as for Ann Arbor SPARK's Accelerate>>Michigan competition.

I've continued to shake my head over how many companies are building (or preparing to build) charging stations for PEVs (plug-in electric vehicles). One forecast selling…

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Added by J. T. Pedersen on October 17, 2011 at 9:12am — No Comments

T. Boone Pickens at the DEC

Hello Everyone,

I know this is a bit outside the typical 'Spokane' area of geographic interest. I thought you might find my comments of modest interest.

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Went to lunch at the Detroit Economic Club today. T. Boone Pickens was the

guest speaker. My prior impressions of him were media driven; hadn't had a

desire to specifically go learn more about this 'celebrity.' This was a good

chance to go see, first hand, what he was all…

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Added by J. T. Pedersen on October 13, 2011 at 6:09pm — No Comments

You’re a Product Manager and NOT Doing This? Really?

Three times this week, I have stumbled across discussions of ‘online tools’ in relation to product management. And, in each

case, numerous software solutions were named, yet no one specifically discussed social media. How’s that?

At first, I noticed that social media wasn’t being included by

virtue of, what seemed to me, a glaring omission. After all, in today’s world, consumers can rip a company a ‘new one’ quite…

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Added by J. T. Pedersen on October 6, 2011 at 1:56pm — No Comments