Posts Tagged ‘invention’

09/30/2019

September 2019 – Using Mashups as an Innovation Technique

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 […]

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 […]

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