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“Business opportunities are born at the intersections of systems.”

Quote by Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

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“All systems produce results which incentivize their continuation. Systems are living beings — by nature, they prioritize self preservation. That's why it's important to apply data and wisdom to the design of systems.”

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“In a system that integrates additive manufacturing at scale, shipping will be less about getting products from one place to another and more about getting commodities from each place to the other.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Cloud first software architecture is critical to designing efficient systems. All the hardware need to be capable of the most sophisticated things and then we can focus our attention on improving software capabilities.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Having clear processes and systems in place is critical to ensuring employee safety.”

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“In terms of biological systems, efficiency is a matter of life or death. And the same is true in terms of business systems.”

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“In order to fully embrace ESG standards, businesses need to think holistically about their entire value web.”

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Book:Business Essentials

Source: Business Essentials

“From a systems design and capacity sharing perspective — sometimes facilitating access to resources is better than facilitating ownership of resources.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“From a systems design and distribution perspective, we should put more emphasis on commodities than on products. This is how nature works — an economy where commodities are easily accessible and easily convertible into products.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The true potential of additive manufacturing is not with industry but with individuals. Instead of a system where giant factories manufacture products in mass then ship them on giant boats planes and trucks all around the earth just so a bunch of individuals each get a few things they ordered… we'll have a system where product designs are instantly sold purchased or licensed and manufactured instantly in millions of tiny factories in a decentralized network of production and consumption.”

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“There is yet one leverage point that is even higher than changing a paradigm. That is to keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, to stay flexible, to realize that no paradigm is “true,” that every one, including the one that sweetly shapes your own worldview, is a tremendously limited understanding of an immense and amazing universe that is far beyond human comprehension. It is to "get" at a gut level the paradigm that there are paradigms, and to see that that itself is a paradigm, and to regard that whole realization as devastatingly funny.”

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Book:Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Source: Thinking in Systems: A Primer