On an eerily balmy first day of winter last December, when the temperature hit record 71 degrees Fahrenheit in New York City, Tim Grob steered his black electric Tesla S sedan into the parking lot of Brooklyn's new Whole Foods supermarket. He parked next to a towering green Sanya Skypump and plugged in.
Have you ever worked with a colleague who always seems to be coming up with great ideas? Who always seems to lead with a vision that no one else imagined? How do these individuals envision problems and see solutions? What if you could train your mind to emulate the most creative of innovators? It's possible.
Gaining insight into how innovators think could be one of the key differentiators for your company as it seeks to solve some of the toughest customer challenges.
…and you were a technophile opening your newly pressed issue of Scientific American, you’d come upon this interesting little article on the second page. Perhaps you’d be as excited as the journal’s editors seem to be in their opening paragraph:
As 3D Printing continues its dramatic rise in popularity I'm seeing what I call "a crisis of adoption," where new users are finding themselves stranded without the proper tools to utilize their newfound manufacturing capabilities.
For the millions of Americans living with Type 1 diabetes, controlling blood sugar levels is a necessary but often painful way of life.
The word "innovation" was long synonymous with the IT programmers of Silicon Valley or the design engineers of Tokyo. But the world is changing fast and now the latest designs, products and ideas are as likely to come from Accra or Nairobi as from the U.S. or Far East. Africa's innovative and entrepreneurial spirit is taking on the world -- whether it is apps for farmers, medical diagnostic devices, cleaner cooking fuel or new seed varieties, exciting advances are being made every day across the continent.
