In 2002 I made two trips to Russia to teach MBAs at Moscow University Touro. You can read about my early January trip, “Christmas trees in the Kremlin,”  in Rowan University’s magazine. I returned in November of the same year to teach an e-commerce class, where we got into a discussion of how Internet technology has facilitated the growth and speed of feedback loops.

To illustrated to the class the power of feedback loops, I described how the development of accurate feeding technology (see the sidebar below) depended on the microprocessor, which in turn depended on the ability of feedback loops to provide timely data on what’s happening outside the feeder.

- Todd Van Hoosear, who focuses on business communications for Topaz Partners. Van Hoosear previously worked for Weber Shandwick Worldwide, leading the team that handled the North American launch of CMG Wireless Data Solutions. Todd is scheduled to post tomorrow.

- Steven King, senior advisor at the Institute for the Future and a partner at the early stage advisory firm Emergent Research. Steve has more than 20 years of industry experience and has held a number of senior corporate general management and marketing roles, including Vice President of Corporate Marketing for Macromedia, Vice President and General Manager Asia-Pacific for Lotus Development Corporation, and Vice President of Marketing for Isys Corporation. We'll look for Steven's post Thursday.