Author: Ray Keefe
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Project Priorities Perspective – Time and Cost versus Performance
This continues our review of the Project Priorities Perspective. See the Project Priorities Perspective post for the concept behind this and Time and Performance versus Cost for a look at those trade-offs. Here is a visual view of this set of trade-offs: Reducing performance can decrease cost and it can also decrease the…
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Project Priorities Perspective – Time and Performance versus Cost
This continues our review of the Project Priorities Perspective. See the Project Priorities Perspective post for the concept behind this. This is the easiest of the the trade-offs to appreciate. If you want it quickly and it has to be good, then you are going to pay more for it. This doesn’t mean you…
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Project Priorities Perspective
This is a tool we use to fine tune projects toward the most commercially successful outcome. It works by highlighting the three competing priorities in every project. These are: Performance – how good does the product have to be Cost – how much will it cost to make Time – how quickly will it be…
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Sprechen De Cantonese? – Electronics Design in Australia
There are many companies successfully doing good business in China. Most of them are large, have deep pockets and have core staff in China making sure it stays good. Names like Sony, Siemens, IBM (Lenovo)… Smaller companies can run into trouble. This is a case study of a project we were able to rescue.…
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Electronics Products Made in Australia – Strategies to be More Profitable
In order to make electronic products in Australia at a good profit, it is necessary to understand the factors that contribute to the total cost of a manufactured product. Here are the top 5: The cost of the engineering and tooling effort – sometimes referred to a NREs (Non Recoverable Expenditure) The cost of the…