Earlier this month I attended an incredible performance by the music group Spinphony. They describe themselves as a crossover string quartet that fuses classical, rock, and pop music. Many of their high energy songs are mashups between well-known rock melodies and famous classical arrangements. Some of their mashup tunes are: Don’t Stop Beethoven (Don’t Stop […]
Posts Tagged ‘front end of innovation’
08/30/2019
August 2019 – Truly Making the World a Better Place Through Innovation
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 […]
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 […]
07/31/2018
July 2018 – How to Join the “Big Three” of Outer Space Travel
Just like the rivalry between the “Big Three” US automakers, there is an interesting competition unfolding amongst three multi-billionaires who are jockeying to commercialize travel outside the terrestrial Earth. Jeff Bezos Blue Origin is the company Bezos founded to develop his space travel initiative, through its New Shepard rocket with a luxury passenger capsule mounted […]
06/30/2018
June 2018 – How To Develop a Successful Innovation Strategy
Thomas Edison once said, “I don’t want to invent anything that nobody will buy.” While haphazard innovations may generate revenue, if you really want to make innovation pay off big time, a strategy or game plan for using it within your organization needs to be developed. The most important point about developing a strategy for […]
05/31/2018
May 2018 – The Six Earmarks of a Truly Innovative Culture
You may have seen the recent announcement by Tesla CEO, Elon Musk that promised to totally change the trucking industry with a 500-mile range, electric tractor-trailer. It will include much of the high end technology Tesla cars possess now. It will also include incredible safety features, have autonomous convoy capabilities, and have an 80,000-pound load capacity. […]
04/30/2018
April 2018 – How to Innovate Like Amazon
You may have seen the announcement last month that Amazon received several Drone related patents, including one that enables drones to drop packages into delivery “drop zones” from as high as 25 feet. It uses inflatable airbags to provide the cushioning for drops to a person’s backyard or patio. Upon impact with the ground the […]
