Curated articles from various sources.
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Materials engineer Donald Sadoway is on a mission a to create a battery like none before – one that is inexpensive, efficient, and created from “liquid metal”. In this intriguing TED Talk, Sadoway shares that the key to successfully unlocking alternative energy, he believes, is torage. This us what allows such alternative energy (including solar…
“Effectively Engaging Leadership” by XONITEK’s Rick Hulse & Continued Support of the Operational Excellence Society – Published in Lean Management Journal in April 2012. LMJ-APR-2012
Fraught with efficiency in so many other area’s, it seems somewhat ironic that the vast majority of German companies give little thought to corporate spying. Security officials and corporate executives have indicated that this is heavily influenced by German history – specifically memories of the Nazi Gestapo and Communist Stasi spy agencies. These memories have…
Are Indian firms really going to take over the world? Only time will tell, but India’s overnight shift toward the globalization of its firms is undoubtedly impressive. However, suspicions remain that a number of these firms may not be structurally capable of handling any further large international deals. Not only this, but Indian acquisitions have…
Cheap China is no more. Manufacturers are realizing that inexpensive labor is becoming increasingly rare in the manufacturing haven. How will this impact China, and subsequently, the rest of the world? While companies are not about to shut down their China-based factories and bustle off to somewhere cheaper, China is being presented with a challenge:…
While we may have come to feel a sense of empowerment when armed with our smartphone or other smart devices, what we may be experiencing in reality, is in fact, denial. Skeptics are arguing that what was once the slave has since become the master, and that smartphones are no longer serving us as much…
