I happen to live in the economically and socially vibrant, and bustling city of Alpharetta, Georgia. Because Alpharetta is a Technology mecca it has many Fortune 1000 company offices, as well as many entrepreneurially oriented, small and mid-sized companies. Therefore, I regularly see many examples of innovation. Normally, these are in the form of new […]
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07/31/2019
July 2019 – Great Ways to Celebrate Innovation Successes Within Your Organization
Ten days ago, the United States and most of the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of one of mankind’s greatest achievements, Americans landing and walking on the Moon. This unique accomplishment was the result of an untold stream of innovations that led to two of the crew members of Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong and Edwin […]
06/28/2019
June 2019 – A Key Ingredient for Getting Your Personnel Fully Engaged in Innovation
Most likely you did not attend the Recognition Professionals International (RPI) Annual Experience Conference that took place in Atlanta, Georgia in April this year. If you did, you would have seen a display of the world’s largest array of programs, tools, and options for rewarding employee engagement, innovation, and performance. A common theme during the […]
05/31/2019
May 2019 – How to Get Your Employees Really Excited About Innovation
This month, with great fanfare Georgia Tech University in Atlanta, Georgia announced the opening of its $400M Coda building. It is designated as a “Lab for Creation”. The 21-story building in unlike any other one because it features a grand piazza at its base where a food hall and outdoor furniture welcomes students, faculty and […]
04/30/2019
April 2019 – Successfully Crossing the Finish Line with Your Innovation
This month a team of Israeli researchers announced the breakthrough of “printing” the world’s first 3-D vascularized, engineered heart by utilizing tissue cells from the patient’s own biological material. Up to now, with 3-D printer technology scientists have only successfully printed simple tissues without blood. The director of the project, Prof. Tal Dvir of Tel […]
03/31/2019
March 2019 – Effectively Developing Innovative Ideas
The Problem Last month it was reported that reasonably priced fruits and vegetables could disappear in America because of a dwindling pool of farm workers. Agricultural analysts say the labor shortage is already forcing up wages. “The labor force keeps shrinking,” said Gary Wishnatzki, a third-generation strawberry farmer. “If we don’t solve this with automation, […]
02/28/2019
February 2019 – With Innovation – “Platforms” Are Where the Profits Are
In January, in a highly unusual move, Toyota Motors announced it had offered to share its automated safety system which uses self-driving technology to keep cars from crashing, with its car manufacturing rivals. The system, which is known as Guardian, takes control of a vehicle to steer it around an impending crash or accelerate it out […]
01/31/2019
January 2019 – Want to Change the World Through Innovation? Then Do This
A game changing innovation was announced this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that could alter the way we buy consumer products. The tool for this potential shift is called Loop, which aims to eliminate disposable containers for food, beverages, and consumables like shampoo and laundry detergent. Some of the world’s biggest […]
12/31/2018
December 2018 – Do This One Thing To Become More Innovative
During 2018 many new innovations were developed and one of the most interesting ones is a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a “smart pill” which contains a strain of bacteria and electronics that can be used to identify signs of disease in a person’s body. Hopefully as this technology improves […]
11/30/2018
November 2018 – Why the US is the #1 Place for Businesses – Innovation
You may have seen the 40th annual release of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report in October ranked the United States as the world’s most competitive economy. The report looked at 98 criteria involving social, political and economic factors for 140 different countries and ranked the United States as the #1 country because of […]
