An Apple Car by 2020?

While tech pundits and market seers debate the idea of an Apple car, what fascinates me is the five-year timeframe.  Some call that deadline aggressive; I call it exhilarating.

The notion of a light manufacturing company “turning raw steel into a car” in five years seems audacious, like streamlining geologic history into one calendar year.

But is it impossible? Not necessarily.

Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAG) like this are perfect candidates for our Compression technique.  Thoughtful tradeoffs in how project tasks are performed are the most strategic elements in project planning. It saves our clients the most money and time – especially critical in new product development.

It’s how we helped manage a complex, multigenerational product development program with more than 100 design, development, manufacturing and support teams providing input for Caterpillar for a bold new product.

As technological innovations multiply, many more businesses will need comprehensive solutions to the puzzle of staying competitive with new products but creating them in less time.  We’d better all fasten our seat belts, it’s going to be an exciting ride.