We’re now just six weeks away from our CLEAR™VIEW event, a highly interactive, three day leadership experience for top executives charged with driving business performance through organizational capability and transformational change. There is still plenty of time to sign up! The CLEAR™VIEW program is focused on building practical strategies to address challenges in agility, change,…
Online shopping is expected to reach half a Trillion dollars this decade. Everyone thought brick and mortar stores would be replaced by online shopping, and yet real retail shops bring in 10 times what online stores do. Here’s an interesting profile of two entrepreneurs who started thier venture from a New York apartment, hoping to…
A Silicon Valley pizzeria has launched the first-of-its-kind pizza robot. And it’s not just one robot, but a pizza-making army. Zume, a Silicon Valley startup, is competing with Domino’s and Pizza Hut. Zume has also also created special delivery trucks that will finish cooking pizzas along the delivery route. That part of the business still…
Remember those old plaster casts? I remember the discomfort of these casts for broken bones, but here’s an idea that I thought I’d share today: Bone-Aid casts, that I think might make the process of healing broken or fractured bones more comfortable. These were designed by students from Tunghai University in China. The casts aren’t…
CLEAR™VIEW is a highly interactive, three day leadership experience for top executives charged with driving business performance through organizational capability and transformational change. The CLEAR™VIEW program is focused on building practical strategies to address challenges in agility, change, innovation, talent and leadership. In-depth sessions with globally recognized thought leaders such as John Boudreau, Rob Cross,…
Starting on this week, residents of Singapore can hail a self-driving car as a taxi, thanks to It’s brought to U.S.-based nuTonomy by Renault Zoe and Mitsubishi. The new i-Miev taxis use an invite-only app. The trial will offer riders a commute through Singapore’s one-north business district: The startup, which in May received $16 million…
A lung cancer diagnosis is serious business. But in China, scientists are using a revolutionary technique to treat lung cancer: Chinese scientists are preparing to set a world’s first by treating lung cancer patients with immune cells modified using the CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing technique. The team of clinical researchers hopes the modified immune cells will…
It’s Friday, so here is an upbeat invention to share for those of you who might want to step away from your pet for a few hours this weekend: The Furbo Dog Camera. It’s a smart camera that lets you see, talk to, and even toss a treat to your dog while you are away….
I’ve been watching the Summer 2016 Olympics from Rio, and it’s been exciting! But along with the competition, spectators and athletes have had to worry about the Zika virus. I recently learned that the Brazilian Ministry of Health has developed a new app that will crowdsource health symptoms and map out any spread of the…
Whether for financial or environmental reasons, the trend of “off-grid” living doesn’t seem to be diminishing. There have been an explosion of blogs and reality TV shows these past several years dedicated to living off the electrical grid. Three years ago a survey showed that 1.7 billion people in the world live off the grid….
