Literature
Knowhow acquisition is all around us. There is concetrated know how in books. There is whisdom in every single line of text; but there are books that move your views on the world.
„Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.“ Albert Einstein
The books mentioned here I found very valuable in respect to benefit, insights and efficiency. From them I have learned a lot and therfore I would recommend them personally.
Chris Anderson, "The Long Tail"
The cover text brings it to the point: "What happens when all of a sudden an incredible mass of products and services become available to all? When suddently the value of all the millions of niche products are worth much more than the classic top-seller? Then the business rules will change tremendlessly." Anderson writes about the influence that the internet has on the global market, the worldwide trade and our behaviour. A standart already.
Dietrich Dörner, „The logic of failure“, Strategic thinking in complex situations"
To my oppinion Dietrich Dörner is one of the living Genius of our time. His book "The logic of failure" is one of the best books about the structure of complex situations and the handling of those situations. It does not contain direct recipies but shows the most important elements of complex situations (interconnections, intransperancy, dynamics and multi-intentionality) Only when having understood the structure of comlexity one can establish successful strategies. Also the other book by Dörner "the mechanics of the soul wagon" and "blueprint of a soul" are very intersting to read but also much more complex to understand. But that deeper look into the models of Dörner of our thinking are very helpful and are absolutely to be recommended.
I think Dörner owes a place in the hall of fame of artificial intelligence.
Malcolm Gladwell, „Blink, the Power of Thinking without Thinking"
It's a book about rapid cognition, about the kind of thinking that happens in a blink of an eye. When you meet someone for the first time, or walk into a house you are thinking of buying, or read the first few sentences of a book, your mind takes about two seconds to jump to a series of conclusions. Well, "Blink" is a book about those two seconds, because I think those instant conclusions that we reach are really powerful and really important and, occasionally, really good.
Raymond Kurzweil, The singularity is near
Als As an engineer and musician Raymond Kurzweil was an ideal for me and many others. For those that do not know him yet, it is worth learn about his career and the things he has achieved. At a time when computers just begun to be commercially useful, he invented a machine the would read books to blind people. On his way to do so he had to make some innovation because those technologies did not exist yet at that time: Scanner, OCR-Software, Speech Recognition and Synthesis. Later on he was the father o the lengendary, polyphon synthesizer "Kurzweil K250".
Later on he became professor at the MIT and started to think about development of technology in general and according the law of Moore. He found out that not only the processing power of todays computer was following that curve but every knowledge based development seems to follow that curve. In his many books he presented ideas how the world would look in a few years. Many of them - he says 82% of them became reality! His last book "Transcend" is dealing with the medical development. The one bfore "The sungularity is near" seems to me best suited to get an overview of his thoughts.
After having read one of his books you will almost certainly start asking yourself if your company is prepared for the change ahead of us. After we have seen the tremeneous influence that technology had in history. you will start wondering if you have enough technology competence in your company to be prepared to the change yet to come? Anyway get us in your team and you will have enough competence for the next big step.
Wolfgang Mewes, „Mit Nischenstrategie zur Marktführerschaft“
Wolfgang Mewes ist der Begründer der EKS-Lehre (Engpass konzentrierte Strategie oder Engero-Kybernetische Strategie. Schon zu Zeiten als die allgmeine Managementlehre Diversifikationsstrategien als das Nonplusultra verbreitete (70er Jahre), entwickelte Mewes eine Lehre der Konzentration auf den Minimumfaktor des Kunden. Die vielen mit dieser Strategie gross gewordenen Firmen zeugen davon, wie effizient und richtig seine Strategie war und ist.
Inzwischen wurden die Rechte von EKS vom Malik Managementzentrum St.Gallen übernommen. Nun sind wir gespannt was daraus im Rahmen der Kybernetik-Strategie von Malik werden wird.
Walter Burkhalter, "Das Geheimnis des Belimo Erfolges"
Als meine Vater begann, dieses Buch zu schreiben, habe ich nicht geahnt mit welcher Konsequenz er daran arbeiten würde; wieviel von seiner jahrzehnte langen Erfahrung er darin würde - in lesbarer Form - unterbringen können. Es ist ein in vielen Aspekten überraschendes Buch entstanden. Es verknüpft die Entstehungsgeschichte der Firma Belimo und speziell die vielen Entscheidungen die getroffen werden mussten, mit der EKS-Strategie. Es ist meines Erachtens einzigartig, indem hier nicht im Nachhinein Erfolg zu erklären versucht wird (wie es die meisten Strategie Bücher tun müssen), sondern die Entstehungsgeschichte der Entscheidungen, die dann zum Erfolg führten, oder eben manchmal nicht, von Innen heraus beschrieben werden. Die Grundlagen der Entscheidungen und die Auseinandersetzungen damit im Verwaltungsrat werden detailiert dargelegt.
Einzigartig und nicht nur für Insider der Belimo ein spannende und lehrreiche Lektüre.
Experience
Please read in this section, on what my experience is built upon, how I found to my common and vivid sense.
„I think this is not so much about asian wisdom. It is not about using your right, unused side of your brain. It is not important to set free some misterious creativity potential or to use the socalled 90% unused brain in your head. Actually it is simply about using and training your common sense.
Dietrich Dörner in „Schicksal des Misslingens“
Vision
Experience has shown that most of the companies are not prepared for the accelerating change in global technology. Rarely a consitent and sustainable innovation and knowledge management is installed.
„Many are insisting concerning their ways, only a few when it comes to their goals.“ Friedrich Nietzsche
Hand on Heart, how sure are you that your company is going to meet the requirements of the global accelerating markets? Most companies lack the needed know how at the right positions. Do you have enough high tech competence in your development and your board? If not - accomplish yours with Tri-B-Werk.
Products
I offer services for research and development management of electronical products. Briefly: I help you to have the right products at the right time.
„Today we have the possibilities to start such a learning process. Gaming was always an important method to prepare for a case of emergency. We should start using it with focus. Today we have many more possibilities to do so. We should use them.“ Dietrich Dörner in „Schicksal des Misslingens“
My services for products in an early stage enclose the following: Innovation management, solution finding, feasibility studies, concept development, risk prevention, prototype building, project and product portfolio management. Read more about it in this section.
Partnerships
Good parships are defined by living compliance, completion, contradiction and opposition. These parships are based on confidence that has been built up by real life experience.
„Coming together is a start, staying together a progress, working together a success".
Henry Ford
I cultivate those partnerships with all my partner companies and customers.
A new planning & management tool
For almost all of my career I was looking for a tool that would ease my daily work on development planing. But I never found one that would meet my high expectations. So 5 years ago we started developping our own. All of our experience and knowledge went into the development of the ultimate planning tool: oneboard.
„Not with innovation but with improvements you make a fortune.“ Henry Ford
We are very proud of the outcome. Very soon we will present oneboard here and on it's own site. You will be able to download a demo version and try yourself if we did a good job. I am looking forward to your feedback and hope to have caught your interest.
Literature
Knowhow acauisition can be done every where. There is whisdom in every single line of text; but there are books that move your views on the world.
„Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.“ Albert Einstein
The books mentioned here I found very valuable in respect to benefit, insights and efficiency. From them I have learned a lot and therfore I would recommend them personally.
Login
As mean of data exchange I do set up FTP accounts for my customers. Here we can savely exchange bigger data files, programms and such.
Contact
Get in contact with me. A visit and a short talk is always a benefit for you as well as for me.
Contact
Get in contact with me. A visit and a short talk is always a benefit for you as well as for me.
Tri-B-Werk GmbH
Tri-B-Werk GmbH offers consulting and engineering services for products in which a perfect match of mechanics, electronics and software is needed. Tri-B-Werk is merely a one man show consisting of me - Daniel Burkhalter.
The name Tri-B-Werk is a reference to the trinity (Tri) of my competences in mechanics, electronics and software. The B is taken from my last name "Burkhalter". Finally "Werk" (german word for work) shall describe my attitude towards my work and contracts; meaning that I valuate each one as a small "Art-work". Each one as unique, each sustainable in its surounding and each one making me and (hopefully) my customer proud.
Mechanics
When designing mechanical devices the variance of the solution and the customers idea are very often diametrically different. While the cumstomers perception is oriented on the existing solution the field of possible answers reaches far behind our horizont.
„Things do not have to be necessarily better when changed, but in order to improve they have to change.“ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, german aphorist und physicist (1742-1799)
Let's search for new solutions that leave our horizonts behind but land exactly in the focus of your customer.
Elektronics
In the last 100 years the technology evolved with huge exponetional steps along the prediction of Gordon Moore. Sure predictions are difficult and but can you risk to fall behind? The winner in the end is always the one that offers the customers the best practical solution, what evers it includes.
„Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.“ Arthur C. Clarke in „Profiles of the Future“
Let's evaluate posible technologies and bring it in the right balance with your requirements - for solutions that amazes your customer sustainably.
Software
In order that your customer does not have to face "unpredicted program states" and becomes the last resort for unfinished software, we do balance in all our projects human geniality with machine presicion.
“It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years”
John von Neumann 1949
With our cooperation your software will cause exitment and not test the customers tolerance, flexibility and adaptability to his limits.
