The Collaborative Design Process and Decision Engineering

The Collaborative Design Process and Decision Engineering

The intellectual high ground in business decision making is held by a handful of organizations: The Economist Intelligence Unit, Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Global Institute, and Strategy+Business. I think Rich Karlgaard, the publisher of Forbes, is also a...

Have you ordered your micromort detector?

In the 1970’s Ron Howard defined the micromort as a measure of small risks. A micromort is one microprobability of death, i.e., a one in a million chance of dying. The micromort is useful for thinking about medical decisions that involve the possibility of...

Which electricity business and regulatory model do we want? Command and Control or Transactive Energy?

A common vision of the smart home of the future is beginning to emerge.  See the figure on the left. The home of the future will have solar panels on the roof and it will be both a producer and consumer of energy. It will have smart appliances. The smart air...