Organizations have enormous power to focus efforts on collective goals, objectives, issues, problems, and results, if they so choose. It’s the power of an organization’s convergent effect — people coming together in a planned way to accomplish something mutually beneficial for all involved. That’s the theory of organization.If organizations exist to unite diverse perspectives, capabilities, [...]
The kitchen has long been the heart of the home and, at the same time, a site of technological innovation. We’ve come a long way from cooking over an open hearth with the kitchens of today offering performance, technology and innovation at our fingertips. The kitchen’s continuous evolution from a design and technology home appliance [...]
Technology patents stifle innovation. You may have heard this, and the arguments surrounding it, since the first software patents were issued. Until now, however, the average individual in the United States has not noticed really noticed the reach that intellectual property law protection has in their everyday lives. After all, one does not miss innovation [...]
If you aspire be an entrepreneur, or transform your company, this book is for you. If you feel passion alone will succeed or are risk averse, save your money, though all proceeds go to Chicago’s Children’s Hospital.Accelerated Disruption is a blueprint on creating a business that delivers unique value and carves profits from large, deeply [...]
Many people associate innovation with high technology products and services, and certainly those industries create lots of innovation. On the other hand, almost every business seems to enjoy the potential to be more innovative if people think about the business that way.Few industries had a greater reputation for being stodgy than steel making during the [...]
