Future of ergonomics
Opportunity mining
What are the opportunities in Merthyr?
If you ask the good questions the answers will emerge from themselves
Economic questions? Community questions? Personal happiness?
GDP Gross Domestic Product Local import = Local Export
To create products which are as valuable for people outside Merthyr as the value of all that they “import” to Merthyr
Can we solve all problems with products?
Non‐physical products like services or experiences…
All results of human efforts can be considered as products Skills = product of education Experience = product of exercising your skills Being appreciated = product of your efforts Happiness = product of thinking and acting the right way
think about the well being of the whole society products are just tools
How to live a successful and happy life? create or do something valuable for other people which makes you proud… … do it in a way that do not make you feel suffer or bored
There goes our Baby!
Doing something extremely well and extremely passionately …
Taking care of someone…
Opportunities of the location?
Local agriculture?
Walnut
100 trees
200.000 – 300.000 Pounds
… oops, 30 years of investment
How can we make money from that now ?
…over 30 years
The Merthyr Walnut Mortgage Foundation
How can it make money now?
Everwinning strategy:
copy what already works and make it (better)
Businesses that can be run independently from location?
Businesses that can be run independently from location?
MKB = Middle and Small Companies
… it just happened to be here
caravan windows Fences
Table legs
Playsets
X‐pozer
Street bench
Child seat for bicycle
Some men see things as they are, and say ‘’Why?’’ I dream of things that never were and say
Why not? ‐ George Bernard Shaw
Extremely simple, and very successful products that can be manufactured
anywhere?
How will they succeed?
Who might be a leader?
Who might be a leader?
Who is your hero?
‘’The most visionary man on this planet’’
Who is your hero?
‘’The most visionary man on this planet’’
SpaceX International Space Station Resupply Mission Set For March 30
Hyperloop
What do they need the most?
Curiosity and passion to explore and to learn skills
Drawing
Woodworking
Film making
Ceramics
Photography
Astronomy
Computer skills
Exploring nature
Biologic research
Making music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfZ1AEdfd1o