Re: Professor Clayton M Christensen on "Hard times can drive innovation"

Harry Winter — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:31:51 -0000

Harry Winter again,
I believe the previous e-mail combined both URLs into one. Here are both URLs again:
www.EE-logos.org
www.msmisp.com/futuretest/inde...

Both should work
Sorry about that, Harry

Re: Professor Clayton M Christensen on "Hard times can drive innovation"

Harry Winter — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:36:05 -0000

Both web URLs will get you to the main paper on which will engulf our country. Just last month I came to the same conclusion you did: The only likely solution is "aggressive developments" of technology a' la Christensen.
I wish Christensen had the conviction (believe) in his concept that Albert Einstein had in his formula about Energy being equal to Mass times speed of light squared. ---- And also had the "guts" to write a letter to the President as Albert Einstein did.
No one apparently can see that we are not in a historical depression which has one year duration, but something quite new which will be permanent. --- Read my paper on that (EE-Logos.org) I have send these papers to the CEOs of tech. companies who have spoken out about this coming catastrophe --- here is my cover letter for these mailings:
December, 14 08 ---- Harry Winter, MTS BTL ret. --- 150 Thornewood Dr. Granville, OH 43023
Please E-mail or phone for an answer Ref-hwinter@msmisp.com Tel 740 587 0226

Dear Sir, --- I am sending these papers to only a small group
of CEOs, because as a famous American once said:

“It only takes a few good men to do nothing”, ---for evil to persist --- or to let it happen that a looming economical cataclysm will engulf the US. The 7 men I have quoted in my paper, --- Craig Barret, Tim Ferguson, Jack Gifford, Andy Grove, Brian Halla, Jeffrey Immelt, Ben G. Streetman are certainly all “good men”, because they have honestly made public what their sharp intellect tells them, instead of what hundreds of thousands of wealthy Americans are doing now; namely keeping quiet and changing their Millions of $ into safer Euros. Question is, will these 7 “good men” ever do anything EFFECTIVE to help their country? (Instead of just playing the role of “Cassandra”.) --- Right now they have not even hinted at any remedies, because there might not be any. One CEO, Jeong Kim of BTL, the company I worked for all my life, realizes that the US is no place for BTL anymore and he moved it to Paris, France. - I must agree with him that there is no solution to this catastrophe as long as we are just looking for the the , the .

What we need are --- CREATIVE --- solutions instead,
which are just the kind most CEOs shy away from.

We need new kinds of Skunk-Works to stay afloat in this “Economic War of the World”, (World War III?). Not for inventing superior products that fly higher and faster, as was the purpose of the original Skunk-Works, but to create innovation with COST/PERFORMANCE -- BREAKTHEOUGHS that will allow us to put our people back to work again --- with acceptable wages. Can it be done? Yes, I believe I proved it, if only for a single product, mind you I am just ONE engineer.
As I have suggested in my paper, to survive this Economic War we need to promote (or enforce), with tax manipulations etc., a very aggressive development of Innovation at all R&D centers that are still operating in the US. Only that might prevent Jack Gifford’s prediction about America’s high standard of living, brought about by technological innovation, to cede to Asia.

Are you asking Mr. CEO, “How can you expect thousand of engineers across the country to invent more of your “hair-brained” idea of innovations? --- First, it is not my “hair-brained” idea, but the discovery of a Professor Clayton M. Christensen’s of the Harvard School of Business. In my opinion his research is the most important finding by Harvard in a century. Second, I myself got 11 patens which are of this kind. --- And while I only have average engineering abilities, my inventions all worked and the few that went into large scale production proved to be extremely reliable in the field. This reliability and that my designs were always on schedule was appreciated by management. However, the much lower cost for my designs was not valued. Fortunately, our manufacturing arm, Western Electric, compensated for it by gold-plating circuit boards and using expensive high-reliability components, etc, etc. (Greed is handled differently in a Monopoly !) --- About answering your “question” Mr. CEO, --- Sorry, I don’t have a definite answer, --- I just have Hope, --- which is surely needed, because,
RIGHT NOW WE ARE LOOSING THIS ECONOMIC WAR!

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