Building a billion dollar integrated photonics industry

Working in high tech for 35 years, René Penning de Vries has never seen more potential waiting to come to fruition. But creating a billion euro integrated photonics industry in the Netherlands will require a lot more hard work and persistence.

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Formula 1 system architecting – Part 2: The religious, centralist worldview of an engineer

‘System architecting under extreme circumstances’ is how you could describe Guido de Boer’s job at Mapper over the past fourteen years. Part 2 in a series of interviews in which he shares with Bits&Chips his unconventional view on developing systems, in the run-up to his keynote at the Dutch System Architecting Conference on 20 June.

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Why your corporate culture is wrong

Especially in an age where the pace of change is accelerating, relying on a slow, bottom-up, organic process where new views and perspectives are brought into the organization over the course of years, is a recipe for failure.