Curated articles from various sources.
In Germany, the Erich Utsch AG plant is building a staple of American prisons: the equipment convicts use to crank out vehicle license plates. Utsch, with its niche product and exporting zeal, is one of the 3.7 million small and medium-sized companies driving Europe’s biggest economy. The son of the company’s founder, recently revealed their international…
Bloomberg Technology reports how local tech startups are making headway in the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. This due, to The U.A.E.’s declaration of 2015 as the “year of innovation,” – reflecting aspirations of the Gulf Arab nations to diversify away from oil. As a consequence, Gulf governments are funding entrepreneurship programs seeking to…
The president and managing partner of Google Ventures, Bill Maris, wants to invest $425 million in companies that are keen to slow aging, reverse disease, and extend life. In his view, technology has the power to enable us to live to be 500 years old. He predicts that in 2045, humankind will have its Terminator moment: The…
ByTED
You’d be surprised how revealing, insightful and helpful the seemingly simple process of making toast can be. Designer and innovative practitioner of business visualization, Tom Wujec, loves asking people to draw how they make toast, because the process actually reveals unexpected truths about how to solve ‘wicked’ problems at work. In this unexpectedly refreshing TED talk, Wujec shares…
ByHBR.org
The proposed question is ever- relevant: What’s more critical to producing a breakthrough innovation – finding creative people or finding creative ideas? This is a question Pixar head Ed Catmull has asked, and he says they tend to be pretty much split on it 50/50. A trip through HBR’s archives shows that he’s hardly alone…
On Feb. 2, Bloomberg News reported that the electronics retailer company Radioshack, is preparing to close its doors for good through a bankruptcy deal. As the story goes, the chaos around Radioshack’s livelihood has been building for years. So how exactly did this electronics retailer go broke? In the light of the former statement, it…
