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We started an email newsletter back in 2002 as “The Focus.”  We kept that up for some time and then made the plunge into blogging around 2008. Over the years, thousands of students and engineers from around the world have told us that our blog is an invaluable tool to them. If you can’t find what you are looking for, don’t hesitate to contact us. 

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Three new articles have recently been posted to the  Phoenix Business Journal, with three very different topics. Click the links to read. If you like any of these, or any of the pieces we put out...
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Lots of new content to share out there from PADT on that is published by other people. Two blog posts in the Phoenix Business Journal went out since the last update: We meet fellow business people t...
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The idea of Big Data, so much information that traditional data analysis tools cannot process it, has been around for a while now. We collect data, we store it, and we plan to use it. There must be ...
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The problem with most business revolutions is you do not realize you are in the middle of one until you are in the middle of one. We are in the middle of so many right now, it is hard to keep up. Wh...
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Several recently commercialized technologies have made the dream of being able to print large, we are talking feet instead of inches, parts a reality. In fact "The age of large format 3D printing is h...
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We use the clipboard on our computers and phones every day and over the years it may have saved days if not weeks of cumulative time. I felt like it was time to speak "In praise of cut, copy, and past...
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Busy times here at PADT, so three articles have gone out in the Phoenix Business Journal that we have not highlighted here on the Blog.  Without further comment, here are the last three articles publ...
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The norm these days is to just ignore emails you don’t want to deal with. In “4 reasons why responding to emails in a timely way is good for business (and your karma)” I explore why this is not ...
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When someone loses their life, it is too late to start regulating a company’s behavior. The recent tragic death of a pedestrian in a collision with an Uber self-driving car showed that "Self-driving...
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Here are the two latest guest blogs in the Phoenix Business Journal: Beyond the hype, understanding blockchain: Part 2 The latest tech trendiness is a technology for keeping track of transactions call...

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