ByTED
In this fascinating talk, entrepreneur Lisa Gansky – author of “The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing,” and the instigator behind the Mesh Directory (www.meshing.it) – puts a fresh spin on the concept of sharing. Gansky believes that the world will enjoy a large-scale shift toward sharing in the future. She highlights a…
Down South, Brazil’s alternative-investment industry appears to be thriving. The country’s private equity and hedge-fund industry has successfully attracted welcome international attention, and money pouring in. But why there? And why now? Experts have pegged the maturing of the country’s capital markets as well as a decline in interest rates. However, while Brazil’s equity markets…
The race is on to be the first to offer near-field communication payment systems – which will allow people to purchase items with a swipe of their smartphone. At this point, Google, Visa and telecommunications operators are all in it to win it. Why? NFC payments have the potential to replace many cash registers and…
Six Sigma and other significant development projects too often do not fulfill their promise. In business, the public sector, academic and military sectors, failure and missed expectations plague innovation projects, technology implementations and other programs. In a recent Innovation Conference in Shanghai, a global corporate executive discussed broadly-based research which showed that 90 percent of companies did…
While it may be sad to see them go, the days of top down driven Lean Six Sigma or Operational Excellence efforts are long gone. Fading from memory are those leaders of the methodology – Bossidy, Welch, Hammer and Champy, wielding recommendations of “cascading the commitment” to the cause of Quality. Our existing leadership just doesn’t have…
Each of us belongs to a community, or network. In fact, each of us belongs to a great many different networks – with each network being defined by some kernel at its core. These kernels may be physical, ideological, geographical, genetic, religious, or one of countless other characteristics that might define who we are and to…
