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	<title>Discretionary Thoughts</title>
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	<description>Profit improvement ideas for a big world</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Strategic Speed with Product Development Cycles</title>
		<link>http://privateproductivity.com/blog/archives/41</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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Just a quick note on computer operating systems today.  Dry you might think?  How applicable to my Automotive or Manufacturing business struggling right now with high fuel costs?  A lot.
It&#8217;s not too hard to get into a cocktail discussion comparing Windows Vista (or XP) to Mac or Linux and find fans in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Price of Fuel ing Oil Gasoline</title>
		<link>http://privateproductivity.com/blog/archives/40</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The rising cost of gasoline is a popular topic.  I&#8217;ve not seen this level of conversation since the 1970s.  Everyone wants to know what and where the lowest price of gas they&#8217;ve seen.  Everyone is speculating from currency, to the economy, to war.
I thought I&#8217;d add a few notes that many people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forcing Customers to Choose - never a good move</title>
		<link>http://privateproductivity.com/blog/archives/39</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I made a comment over on &#8220;XP era ends: Will Vista step up?&#8221; (additional content added here after the **** break).  Microsoft is discontinuing Windows XP pre-installed systems to force everyone to Vista (or to Mac and Linux as the trend seems to be).
Microsoft planned for Moore&#8217;s Law&#8230; right down to forecasting what people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy Way To Start Using Linux</title>
		<link>http://privateproductivity.com/blog/archives/37</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[People want to upgrade their computer systems - for many reasons, from software to perceived hardware shortcomings.  But when they look around at current options they find these problems:  Windows Vista needs hardware far in excess of what people really currently have - so no real option to upgrade short of buying a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Branded Customer Confusion</title>
		<link>http://privateproductivity.com/blog/archives/36</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking through the most recent Best Buy  sales flier and looked at the page on desktop computers.Â  And was struck by the multiple layers of branding.Â  Stripping off the computer manufacturer layer (emachines, Dell, HP, and Gateway) and looking at just the central processors listed show the following choices:
AMD Athlon 64 4000+, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cost savings in Product Development Land</title>
		<link>http://privateproductivity.com/blog/archives/34</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Companies are constantly trying to reduce costs.  They have elaborate off-site gatherings with themselves and their suppliers to discuss possible changes to the products in development - can they change the materials in one part?  Can they fix the manufacturing process there and take out an assembler or remove a robot?  Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resurecting the Music Business</title>
		<link>http://privateproductivity.com/blog/archives/33</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article covers quite a few areas of the business problems facing the traditional music industry - well written and insightful. However, there is a little bit of the medicine man rain dance in the solution, or at least the way it&#8217;s projected, rather than a formal process.   One quote stood out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transforming Microsoft - 10 steps to a better business</title>
		<link>http://privateproductivity.com/blog/archives/32</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is struggling.  The Internet has proven to be a worthy adversary.  The old model that Microsoft used successfully was the upgrade cycle at corporations where software was bundled with hardware and everyone else was forced to upgrade their home computer systems to remain compatible.  Since the Internet came along, the upgrade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dogging Chrysler</title>
		<link>http://privateproductivity.com/blog/archives/31</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As many are aware, DCX has agreed to sell the Chrysler Group to Cerebus, a private equity company which will take the Chrysler Group private (no more quarterly financial fluffing required).
It will be a good solution for Chrysler and while some anguish will be felt, overall the company will be successful - and successfully spun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>General Chrysler Motors</title>
		<link>http://privateproductivity.com/blog/archives/30</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of news energy has suddenly been released in the last couple of days regarding the Chrysler Group of DaimlerChrysler.  All speculation on who will purchase Chrysler from the Daimler parent company.
It would seem to be a mistake for DCX to spin out Chrysler and undo the acquisition.  I worked at Chrysler [...]]]></description>
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