This article is structured as follows: First, I will explain what I mean by “estimating tech maturity”, and why I think you might care. Then, I will discuss the difficulties that are associated with estimating tech maturity, or technology readiness level. After that, I will explain why and how data…

Do you ever wonder how the numbers in market estimates come about? And how can these numbers be so “precise”? For example, I just saw a market size estimate of USD 25.73 billion for the global shampoo market. Why not 25.92? Or 24.67? And does this even make sense? In…

What is ‘innovation theater’? Innovation theater is when someone pretends to do innovation, but they really don’t. Harvard Business Review has written about innovation theater, for example, as well as Forbes and Fortune. Innovation theater is a bit like “employee suggestion program meets white sneakers”. Why innovation theater is so dangerous Eventually, most innovation theaters either kind of implode or…

Communication between business people on the one hand and scientists on the other hand can be almost as difficult as communication between East and West during the Cold War. Hence the image above of Glienicke Bridge near Berlin, which was famously used for the exchange of captured spies back then. …

No, this is not about teaching you some jargon. This is about how you can use non-obvious data to bridge the gap between different kinds of professionals who often have a hard time communicating with each other. So you are a scientist, and you work in a technology company. How…

The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals are a set of 17 goals that aim to “achieve a better and more sustainable future for all”. The SDGs include topics such as “clean water” and “providing basic infrastructure”, but also “education” and “strong civilian institutions”, for example. …

Imagine you work in a technology company that operates across Electronics, Energy, Manufacturing, Medical Devices, and Robotics. Let’s say that you are interested in machine learning applications within and across these business units. (We recently used this scenario in our description of Mergeflow Teams. …

Do you agree? We at Mergeflow do. Here I describe why, and what we have built as a consequence. Your task Imagine you work in a technology company with activities in Electronics, Manufacturing, Medical Devices, Robotics, and Energy. …

By “AI chips”, I mean specialized computer chips that are designed to accelerate artificial intelligence or machine learning applications. The reason why such AI chips exist is that machine learning involves certain types of computations that are rather slow on standard CPUs. …