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SmartAB™ Wisdom #58: The Evolution Of Venture Capital – Venture Studios And Family Offices To The Rescue…

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Jun 16 •

May 2025

SmartAB™ Wisdom #57: How I Cured Academic Integrity Headaches Caused By AI

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May 4 •

March 2025

SmartAB™ Wisdom #56: Why Elon Musk Finally Admits The Failure Of Autonomous Driving (AD)

About one year ago, I published a post entitled: “SmartAB™ Wisdom #49: The 2024 Death Knell To The Autonomous Driving Coffin?”. And I described to my…

Mar 9 •

January 2025

SmartAB™ Wisdom #55: Why Some Industries Still Fail Total Quality Management (TQM) Objectives

According to https://goleansixsigma.com/tqm-aka-total-quality-management/: “TQM was an organizational approach developed in the late 80’s to create a…

Jan 25 •

November 2024

SmartAB™ Wisdom #54: AI In Supply Chain Management (SCM) – Part 4: It All Boils Down To A Single Word…

As a follow-up to my previous posts on the above, I would like to make the following observation: today, the most common references to using AI in…

Nov 22, 2024 •

October 2024

SmartAB™ Wisdom #53: AI In Supply Chain Management (SCM) – Part 3: Asymmetric Negotiations

Ask Copilot about AI optimization for Supply Chain Management (SCM), and you will receive a simple and concise answer:

Oct 31, 2024 •

August 2024

SmartAB™ Wisdom #52: AI In Supply Chain Management (SCM) – Part 2: Hardware To The Rescue...

Ask Copilot about NVIDIA’s AI chips, and it will tell you a lot about present-day AI hardware.

Aug 25, 2024 •

July 2024

SmartAB™ Wisdom #51: AI In Supply Chain Management (SCM) – Part 1: My Humble Neural Networks Beginnings…

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Jul 14, 2024 •

May 2024

SmartAB™ Wisdom #50: The VC Returns Are Dismal. Can CVCs Do A Better Job?

Even before the explosive growth of AI, the amount of risk facing VC stakeholders pointed to an alarming “six feet under” reality.

May 27, 2024 •

April 2024

SmartAB™ Wisdom #49: The 2024 Death Knell To The Autonomous Driving Coffin?

Apr 13, 2024 •

March 2024

SmartAB™ Wisdom #48: How Could A Bad COPQ Make This Leading Telco… Lose Billions – A True Story!

In my previous post, SmartAB™ Wisdom #47: Why ChatGPT & Copilot Make Some VCs Look Like… Idiots – Part 2, I wrote about how the Venture Capital industry…

Mar 4, 2024 •

February 2024

SmartAB™ Wisdom #47: Why ChatGPT & Copilot Make Some VCs Look Like… Idiots – Part 2

Did you ever try to reach a suitable VC on LinkedIn - only to receive the following archaic response: “To verify this member knows you, please enter…

Feb 10, 2024 •

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