The Prodigal Child of the Automotive Industry DON’T LET ITS PETITE LOOK confuse you with its superb performance delivery on modern road – the micro city coupe “ForTwo” is just above 8 feet long, less than 5 feet wide and 5 feet tall. Weighing 818 kilograms and 3 feet shorter than a Mini Cooper, this…
Category: Innovation
China, the Innovation Beast
China, a nation that had dominated the world several times over the past thousand years, is on track to repeat history once again. Economic reforms introduced by Communist leader Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s has propelled China to become a nation now deemed worthy to challenge the U.S. for the number 1 title. In…
Inventors, Here Are Reasons Why Your Invention Got Rejected
Many Inventors trying to bring their product ideas to market are totally crushed by rejection. So, I thought I would provide a list of some of the reasons you could have gotten rejected. It does not cover every reason you could get rejected, but hopefully it will give you something to think about. You need…
Invention Submission Firms, Design Firms, and Patent Lawyers – Are They All a Rip-Off?
Watch most Inventor shows on TV and you will likely see people on the edge of disaster financially. You hear story after story of people that took out a second mortgage on their house, used every bit of savings they had, were living in their car and on the brink of bankruptcy. These were the…
Implementing Artificial Intelligence at Work
We all know how the Internet of Things has made it possible to turn everyday devices into sources of raw data for analysis in order to generate business insight. It has also been witnessed that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making analytics more productive and efficient at workplaces too. Enterprises expect much more data to be…
How Innovation Can Yield Results
Innovation requires being profitable besides being realistic. Innovation must earn some positive consequence. In a different approach innovation is the use of improved way out to get fresh needs, incoherent or active needs. For your business, it can be a great mechanism for the expansion and achievement of. It helps in becoming accustomed and developing…
Corporate Innovation – What Happened?
In the real world outside of academia, we have the same problem where corporate employees are discouraged from thinking, trained to do things exactly as per the employee manual, BMPs (best management practices) of industry, or directions from their bosses, yet their bosses are doing the same thing? Is anyone – even the C-suite or…
Brainstorming and Innovation – Not Really Working Anymore
Well, I have a pretty large personal library with more than 3 dozen books on innovation. It’s amazing how they all read about the same and all have nearly the same advice, especially when it comes to the ‘art of brainstorming’. Still, due to all the new social norms being taught in college these days,…
It’s Time for Drone Delivery
The other day, I was sitting with a group of college students at Starbucks, we were discussing startup businesses. They were brainstorming of what type of business to start. A guy in an ice cream truck pulled up and the driver ran into Starbucks. I joked as he ran by, “don’t you sell any coffee…
The Winning Mindset For Creative Solutions Under Pressure
For fifteen years, part of my job was to come up with creative ideas-every week, under extreme time pressure, with roughly a million people watching. I was good at it. Really good. But I didn’t start out being good at coming up with creative ideas under pressure. I had to learn. In my case, creative…
Can the Rideshare Industry Re-Invent Itself?
It wasn’t that long ago that UBER came on the scene. Now just ten years later they are looking at a possible 120 billion valuation as an IPO. LYFT another Rideshare company started in 2012 now seven years later is valuated at 15.1 billion. Rideshare companies like Uber and LYFT were borne out of the…
What You Must Know To Step Up As An Innovation Hero
The RealityCreating deeply innovative organizations needs to replace the more simplistic view of creating organizations that are technically innovative, but perpetuate a business culture that is toxic and destructive. Too often this gets ignored until there are legal, financial, or public relations consequences at hand. As a result, brand risk management innovation has yet to,…
Innovation: Food Is The Next Frontier
The world is far from perfect and many challenges are clamoring to be solved. A problem that should be the number one priority is food-waste management. According to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization report, one-third of food produced for human consumption is wasted. That amounts to a huge 1.3 billion tonnes per year. On…
How to Be a Leader That Wakes Up Innovation
I am not the first person to call attention to the connection between diversity inclusion and innovation. What I point towards that has been the more obvious blindspot is the need for personal innovation of leaders that addresses the problem with traditional diversity training. Before we get to that however, let’s take a closer look…
First Line Manager: The Courage to Lead? Where Does It Come From?
My college fraternity president and I were reviewing the activities of our national convention and in particular the slogan, “The Courage to Lead.” He related to me how the General Fraternity had passed a very restrictive policy on the chapters. The leaders of the General fraternity expected him to come back to the chapter, take…
1 Million Jobs for Uganda’s Graduates
Every year Uganda’s institutions graduate over 400,000 students. The graduates scramble for 150,000 annual job openings in the country. ~0.008% create own jobs, leaving the 71.99% graduates jobless every year, these are forced to find alternatives to generate income, including activities in the survival-type informal sector and, some turn to the sex, criminality and drug…
Data Science, Business Information on Steroids
Data Science and Business Information gathering are sometimes, erroneously, used as interchangeable terms. Both Data Science and Business Information gathering provide a great deal of added capabilities and benefits to your company, even though they are different. A few years ago Business Information, also known as BI, was the king of information used to differentiate…
Tips to Buy Fermentation Tanks
If you are looking to buy a fermentation tank, you should do your homework first. You may want to get quotes from different providers so you can get the best deal. Given below are few tips that can help you make the purchase based on your budget and needs. Materials The majority of wineries for…
A Look at How the New Epson ColorWorks CW-C6500 Will Change Enterprise Label Printing
Epson’s new ColorWorks CW-C6500 color label printer will arrive, making it the perfect addition to your enterprise label printer fleet. Companies that print high volumes of labels have historically relied on large fleets of thermal transfer printers and pre-printed color label stock to produce their color labels. The pre-printed stock has blank areas which are…
7 Principles for Exceptional Performance: Case Study – Blue Skies in Ghana
There is an old proverb that states: tall oaks from little acorns grow. Businesses start with an idea and some develop into successful ventures. Back in 1997 a small group of entrepreneurs from the UK, together with Ghanaian business partners, established the Blue Skies fruit processing factory in Ghana. The concept involved processing tropical fruit,…