Autonomous Vehicle technology stack layers
Alliance models for the AV stack - each driven by OEMS, AV tech comapnies, mobility srvice provider

MaaS (Mobility as a Service)

value chain to ecosystem

Automated vehicle challenges

Maps if roads are changing frequently
following road rules

technology collaboration

Can you imagine destination riding or free rides with targeted audio (no headphones allowed on head) or visual (no getting lost on your smartphone) advertisement or
a quiz at the end that will score you a free ride
your preferences as data currency to pay for the ride.
a free meal from the restaurant if you deliver a package to a nearby area using the shared ride.
Larger vehicles like bus could have a barista/meals/display pixels. Thats so much real estate, the side walls of the bus

joyride
ads of what other rides you could take
themed rides
themes of upcoming movies, books, shows, fashion, cooking
It will probably bring the theatre experience to the home movie goers.
massages and grooming
each seat could come with its own audio station based on the user profile.

deliveries and returns

routing unexpected return into delivery is fine for insourced delivery but a cost for delivery companies

For same day delivery, adequate warehousing is a must
12 hour delivery

Where the value is shifting in your industry?

understanding where the value is shifting in your industry (and in others), spotting opportunities in the inflection points, and taking purposeful actions to seize them.

"And when the right portfolio moves aren’t immediately available or aren’t clear, the improved performance helps buy a company time until the strategy can catch up." - Why your next transformation should be ‘all in’ Mckinsey article

Customer Occasion

Your product shoud follow the cutomer with their occasion.
Kids brought home Jelly Belly candy canes. After tasting them, they felt that it seemed like it was made of Jelly belly beans. They even got playful enough to break the candy canes into hearts.

Consumer decision journeys

Multi-channel consumer decision journeys

Startups serving local needs

Fetchr using GPS technology to power delivery in a region with few addresses to Fawry using a local network of retailers to anchor its payment network and overcome barriers in the fintech space.

Invest at Scale

Vendor onboarding

While these are  the various steps of the corporate procurement cycle,  is vendor onboarding a part of yours?
With the need for sustainability and regulations, supplier management is becoming a huge task that still needs monitoring even though the enormity of the list defies that.

Top 10 global supply chain leading companies

Overcoming Pricing Fallacies

To ensure success, a portion of the service provider’s fees should be linked to the outcomes of the partnership.

For a better product, have some part of the project cost dependent on the sales like royalty.

Digital transformation spending

How much has your company spent on digital transformation? If its between 4-12%, then you are not alone? Did you break even?

Walk rate

Do you go to a store and find that it is out of what you need or doesnt have a substitute either then you walk out, you have become a walk rate statistic if someone is counting. If a customer leaves a store without buying anything, but no one clicks them out, did the marketing work? Are there people who count custoemrs who go empty handed when they exit the store. It might get tricky at warehouses, when the cart bearer goes ahead and the family is delayed and seem like they have gone emptyhanded.

What will fuel consumption going down look like

54% of transportation is powered by gasoline in 2018. 

28% of energy was used for transportation in 2018

Constraints

When Henry Ford invented the Model T, there wasn’t an infrastructure of gas stations, but that wasn’t perceived as a constraint.

Customer Occasion

Customer Occasion is a the reuslt of occasion based segmentation the better choice when consumers engage with your brand frequently

Gift cards or offers like Kohls cash are good ways of segmenting customers by occasion of happy customers sharing it with their friends and family or customers looking for value.

Daypart

Casual restaurants use daypart customer analytics to regain market share

You must have heard about starbucks's flexible spending stretching workers to breaking point in 2014. With ever more growing employees, Starbucks approach to staffing and scheduling seems to be working well.

Three take aways from Starbucks this quarter

1. Know it with proof what is driving your sales. if its customer engagement, let your analytics show that, so you can monitor it when it is done.

2. Introducing Irish cream cold brew Product innovation. Showcase your past innovations to retain the legacy as well as highlight your roots of innovation.

3. Go where the customers are. Driving Digital relationships.

Stair swivel vs break dancer

When I saw the breakdancer exercise, I was quickly reminded of the Swivel kick core exercise that you can do, if you cant find stairs closeby.

Analogy and Metaphor

I was reminded of Carmine Gallo's video where he said Analogy and Metaphor are useful in successful communication. While working with intel and explaining dual core, it was best explained as two brains. When I came across reference to Starbuck's coffe machine using cloud for upgrades as an analogy for understanding NXP's recent acquisition of a small Marvell unit, I understood what Gallo meant.

In Warren Buffett and the power of analogy to sell your ideas, Gallo refers to John Pollack's Shortcut how analogies reveal connections, spark innovation and sell.

What Henry Ford learned from a slaughter house

snack parents at soccer game

In a moment of Crisis

If your best team player is loaded with work, then you are missing out on the force multiplier as well as a bad morale spreads around.
do you recognize that if you have them commit at least some time to teaching and coaching, you could have a huge force multiplier?

Arthur's Family Treasury by Marc Brown

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Arthur is really smart in how he solved the Birthday schedule clash so that the whole class could enjoy. I asked the little reader whose birthday party she would go to. She said both. One after another.

Arthur's family vacation rules were clearly understood by the little reader. She knew why Buster didnt make the cut. The Lobster Shack is funny. They make their food so good that they eat it themselves. The story went into a good detail of a disastrous vacation taking a good turn with some much needed field trip planning from Arthur. Turned out so great that DW wanted to plan her own field trip. Have you ever had so much fun in an activity that you thought it would be fun to organize your own.

Youngest woman ever inaugurated

Quick thinking

Cautionary tale

Every cost on our spreadsheet wound up being double, every time factor took twice as long

"difficulties of getting consumers to embrace new technology"

Range anxiety

Making a first absurd deal assuming getting another car deal could be used to make the first deal better reminds me of flight giants. 

"Prius 15 years to get 1.5% with an ideology story" like nespresso.

Is your car the next razor? Car Battery the blades?

Trends in Auto

Advanced driver assistance systems market to reach 28.2 billion in 2022

Will imaging radar catch up to radar?

Stress Management

Are your feelings Seasonally Adjusted?

Lead from the Future: How to Turn Visionary Thinking Into Breakthrough Growth

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Lead from the Future: How to Turn Visionary Thinking Into Breakthrough Growth by by Josh Suskewicz and Mark W. Johnson

“Developing and deploying an inspiring and actionable vision is a skill that can be learned”

The author refers to how early day trains were "horselss carriages". Kurt Sievers, President of NXP echoes this with how Europe and US are trying to redesign a combustion engine into an electric vehicle platform while a country with no legacy will have a better starting point from scratch. Also referred to as  zero based design
 like what Steve Jobs did for music.

All leaders are not alike

Build a culture to match your brand

A leader could be influenced by any of the following ethos -

Disruptive
Conscious
Service
Innovative
Value
Performance
Luxury
Style
Experience

Hence the difference in their evolution.

Why did the town not have a shark net?

If you see a shark in the waters, will you put up a shark net right away? The town didnt do it after the second time eithr. Only after the menace of the shark turned out to be a man, did they get the courage to put up a shark net as there was never a shark ever before. 

Finding your magic

 'Any clown with a hat can call himself a magician.  The secret lies in whats underneath the hat' - says Grandad in The secret of the ice flower to Humbug. Some scenes are potent. You keep seeing the wind chies. The map as a paper plane and then another paper plane whooshes back and rings the wind chimes, so Humbug knows his friend is missing. 

Kate had grown up tap dancing and

singing choir as found in The successful speaker.

What if you could rewrite mundane writing with some specifics like these, making it humorous as it is unexpected.

Humor

The other day my colleague while giving a speech spoke about facing and beating the traffic on Amazon while holiday shopping.

Arshad almost drops a vase, and the owner of the gallery gasps, says “that’s 300 years old!” Arshad responds, “Oh? The way you screamed, I thought it was a new one.”

I could do that

Do you like to pick up projects that get you somewhere or projects where you take on the challenge of doing something for say 30 days either because it is tough or you are curious of the results. While Murphy workout for 30 days is the latter kind of challenge, even to get to a fitness of the doing it for a day is a good challenge. Even a quarter murph.

Murph who what why

Analytics

If you hav elearned analytics and found hypothesis tests all too dizzy, take a look at applications to make it easier to understand.

chi square and other fitness tests

Take a stance

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If you can do a single leg stance with support, move on to without support. Beyong that you could do a single leg stance on an uneven surface like a bosu ball or move your shoulder blades and focus on breath and count. Alternating the direction of the movement along with the leg held, so you rest a set of muscles.

Lessons from a Successful Speaker

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The author Grant Baldwin takes the stress out of what to speak on for a speaker.

1. Speak with Integrity

Know what to say yes to and then you will know what subjects to reject.

2. I could do that

I love the finesse of people who do things such that it makes others aspire to do the same.

White and Red Circles

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My co-leader asked me for a small bowl to cutout a circle and she asked the girls to make 6 circles on a white sheet and 6 on red. We knew we were going to make candy cane. It still didnt strike me how we were going to do that. Once I saw the overlapping circles, especially with glitter gems added to each, I think it is a very creative candy cane.

Fudge Graham

Exercise from Memory

Do you have a workout that you could follow if you dont have any access to TV, internet? Recently when talking to a friend I told her about popsugar workout videos. She then said that she as a 30 min routine that she could follow.
I think the value in watching a workout video, other than timing the exercises is the mirror neurons that get triggered when you see someone else working out.
Recently I have been bitten by the pull up bug.
I had an hour to spend. Usually I take a book along with me. But I hadnt done my exercise for the day yet. In a previous instance, I worked out to Christa Dipaolo workout in the courtyard of the community center. Today, my phone wasnt charged enough.
I took a walk to the play area. The circular arm walk is too high. I rose to the pedestal and hanged onto the hand hold just for a second and back to the safe ground. I have noticed that once you get comfortable in a position, you increase the count time.
Then I started with the legs raised high from the 360 Sculpt Day Front Core (It takes a while to know about the core and then to know that there is Front Core, Back Core and Side Core)

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Then moved onto the staple, plank, pushups, fast bicycles, bridge, squats, Banana, Superman (holding the contraction as long as possible), Russian Twist. Soon my heart rate went to 180. I did quick in lace runs and sprints. It turned out to be a fun session. I felt proud of doing a self-directed workout. I felt warm at the end of it, even though it was cold outside.
If you look at enough exercises, you will have enough in your memory to recall.

Uncover a Shark: An Uncover It Book (Uncover Books)

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We saw this book todayat Costco. Uncover a Shark: An Uncover It Book (Uncover Books). Kids were very taken with the structure of the book. Each page that you move takes away some parts from the shark. While moving the books up and down, I found a Dog book too.

6 Things I learned from the Holiday Bazaar

I have never been to a Girl Scout Holiday Bazaar. I kept thinking of what handmade things we could we put on sale that would be under 2$. We made a trip to Joann's and bought a pipecleaner kit to make pipecleaner reindeers. It didnt take us long to realise that was hard and switched to something simpler that I already know how to make. (The advice to writers of writing what they know.)

1. The first sale is life changing

When a little girl bought a tiny woollen hat, I was on cloud nine. It was a bychance thing. I started making what I learned as a small flower with strands of a ribbon wire. When I did that with a yarn, it turned out to be nothing but knitting without a needle. As I kept at it, I realised that you could use any circular things (stamps lid) as memento, surround it with 3-4 rounds of yarn and then loop all around ,to make an ornament. Then I recalled the tiny woollen hat could be made with the very yarn that I was holding. I asked if we had a toilet roll. That is the base needed. My little one was quick to point out that we had one. We set off making the cute tiny woollen hats. only when you get into the details, do you realise that every little decision matters. Should the loop be made upside or downside. When in doubt, maintain consistency. When we didnt carry the toilet roll for the event, we improvised with glue and card stock cut into the size, we wanted and made into a tiny band. There is a step where you need to pull in all the strands of yarn, which I skipped in favor of making an instant version of it. The same customer, on her next round bought this hat made onsitu.

2. You lost him

A kid wanted a gingerbread house. Earlier my daughter did say that we could make a gingerbread house with the popsicle sticks. That would need lot if sticks, so we didnt make a gingerbread house. There were so many other crafts that could be done by decorating each stick as a snowman or Santa character. When I was reminded of that, I started scrambling for sticks and by then his mom said loudly 'you lost him'. Your customers are running like honeybees to where the product is. If you are not a hive, then they know that you dont have honey.

3. Learn from your employees as customers

My little ones on a break, went around and got cookies they decorated, brownies and cupcakes. Pendant necklaces which they usually dont get to buy but today they had tickets worth 5$ each that they could use to buy to their heart's content.

4. Learn from yourself as a customer

As the event drew to a close, I was on a mission to find a bow for a little friend who gave me a Christmas gift. I scanned all the stalls quickly for a bow. Like mst customers, who already know what they want and will only stop if what you have looks like what they want. When I saw these popsicle stick bracelets, I asked what it was made from. Mod podge effect of applying paper to wood is so cool. It was probably that novelty affirmed by my curiosity that made the sale.

5. What your customers want

Some kids walked around with snuggly blankets. My dad to bought one such as a memento not for any grandchild, so he could share the story of the event. As I took a stroll around, I realised there were the tiny woollen hats else where to. I wanted to find out how much they were selling it for. I wanted to know why the girl who bought it from our table, didnt buy it from there, where there was much more variety. We had some tiny decor green and white christmas trees which some kids found very cute. When I didnt know how to price them as they were supposed to be landscape decorations for a triangle banner, one lady suggetsed the price herself. Some kids were window shopping as they were out of tickets and let me know so too. Towards the end when two kids ooh-aahed at the tiny trees. I let them have it.

6. Look around - Make and Take vs Made

The kind lady who let us in even after the registration period was over, told us that the little kids are very excited about shopping that they are not very much into making something there.

All in all, it was a fun event and fun family time too. I didnt realise how quickly the time went, especially as I was making the tiny hat right there. Later when we had a photo op with family, I was told that the lady next to our stall, gave my girl a bracelet.

Santa's Reindeers

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My daughter surprised me with knowing blitzen as a word. She then let me in on the secret of all the other Santa reindeers - Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder. This was a word search at their holiday party. Some kid drew the outline of the words and it looked like a snowman.

But the best liked snowman was shaped like a marshmallow. Marshmallow is only 95 years old. Some made it look like a tinman from the Wizard of Oz. They couldnt wait to eat it as soon as their creation was made. Just like all the old lady, old man, pig, cow and fox who all wanted to eat the gingerbread man.

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The kids also made these fun Gingerbread man decorations.

While waiting for our class volunteers, I peeped into the other class where parents had already set the room flush with red table cloths. I wondered if I was at the right place. In a while when the main parent arrived, we were set in 5 min. I was amazed at how quickly the arrangements got done. I wondered if I could ever setup a party like this. All the party accoutrements were ordered already. All the parents arrived with those on time. In a jiffy, we were done.

Do you come across people who organise things well and make you aspire to do so?

Monkey bars

The other day at a community park, a man challenged few kids to arm walk from one end of the semi circular monkey bar to the other. I wanted to go, but my husband said that it will hurt your shoulders. It looks easy but I know what he's saying. The kids are light and make it seem easy.

Today when I went to another park I saw a small driving wheel hanging at the top. I saw kids get rom their half pedestal on to it, twist it round about half way, hang and then drop. I wondered if I could take a fall at my age. I wondered if I could jump and reach it. I went close to size it up. WTH. I jumped up and reached for it. Hung onto it for 5 counts. The second time, my palms hurt. I rubbed them to ease the pain. The thrid time, I was there for 10 counts. I was counting fast. I think i have found my favorite spot.

I felt great and strong after that.

Successful Communication

After a friend sent across Satya Nadella book recommendation 2019, I checked out the Nonviolent communication book by Marshall Rosenberg which was a requird reading for Microsoft execs.

The NVC Model

Observations, Feelings, needs and request

Abundance

Abundance

Future jobs

What will our future jobs look like?

5 Tips for non-profits

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If you had some paint and could only paint few of the blocks, would you start from left or right?

In Generation Impact, How Next Gen Donors are Revolutionizing Giving, Sharna Goldseker and Michael Moody interestingly note that donors care about not the sheer number of people who would be helped but the percent of the total need in help. To put it in perspective, the example provided is that donors are more likely to help 90 percent of 100 people in a single village destroyed by an earthquake than they are to help 10 percent of 10000 people.

Here are five things you can learn from their Top Five Most Important Components of Philanthropy Strategy.

1. Have the material about your organization, readily available for research by donors. Are you using the storytelling practice with And but therefore in your statements?

2. Frame your work and solutions as a fit for your ideal donor and their goals. Know your donor or show your donor, so prospective donors can identify with the profile of the past donors.

3. Rootcause and Systemic solution Vs Symptom treatments

4. Show how you are most effective in your mission. Who pays your operating costs?

5. Make your funders your best customers by becoming word-of-mouth recommended cause. In 2011 report , about 32% of donors were either casual givers donating to well known organizations or donated based on personal ties of knowing the organization staff.


What is your rating on impactmatters?
Nonprofits with most impact

shrimp

I have never cooked shrimp before but today made it from the Kirkland ones. Turned out good. Its all new boiling it and then cooking it. Even tried the pan fried version.

Crafts

Popsicle stick bracelets
Made these Yarn hats
As a kid, we made some crafts with slivers of ropes. When I tried that out with yarn, it was nothing but knitting without needles.
Whne I realised that I didnt pack toilet roll for the base of yarn hat, made  the base with card stock and glue.
You can knit around pipecleaner and make necklaces, heart, angel ornamaents.

A thing about circle is that it has infinite powers. While makign a round ornament, I didnt have to worry about centering. Wherever you end up, finishing the circle is the center to hang it from.

Dhokla, Insanity and P90x

Few days ago I had lots of Dhokla and was a bit worried about it. Usually I treat Dhokla as a dry thing but it has two traps. One is the liquid seasoning and the other is the tete-a-tete between savory and sugar. God help you overcome that. After having one too many, I had to have hummus to break off that and rinse the palate. This is where mouthwash with even water would help probably.
Last week, too much rice moved the scale to the east. But nothing that Insanity or P90x cant cure.
Today, I did the Shaun T - Max 30 Challenge Day 1 . If you want to do it, you can proceed from 5-37 min of the video. It is great exercise. The sound and the video are not friendly, but one thing that you dont have to do is time the exercise. Go enjoy the exercise.

stone sphere

A colleague while waiitjng for an application to run, showed us his rock collection. Gemstone spheres. Animal carvings - monolithic as well as die cast. Malachite is the most expensive. Saw a soapstone carving of different orbs inside. A dalmatian made with spotted rock. A fish fossil. Natural landscapes.

Speakers Bureau

Toastmasters District speakers bureau lets you engage with diverse audience. It is also a step for becoming an accredited speaker as you have to give 25 speeches to non Toastmasters audience. Darren Lacroix in Why did you go for your as accredited speaker? introduces us to Certified speaking professional of National speaking association.

 One of the auditions had The power of leverage speech. Another Thinksafe.

At Middleton has a scene where while working the radio, a character says that the audience is connected to you, even though you cant see them.

More flexible

P90X Xstretch

Be careful when you tell your friends, anything is fine. I went along with this choice. Ideally I would liked more rapid movement after two days of no exercise. This was a 1 hour session. The watch kept thinking that I had paused my workout. Somewhere along the 45 min mark, I realised hat I had become more flexible. My head touched my knee on one side. Sometimes to know th eprogress, you need patience.

Dec 9

Involved Vs Committed

The other day interesting conversation came up about the difference between involvement and commitment