EcoMotors’ Mission “Clean, Efficient and Lightweight Propulsion Systems for a Better World” This credo is the essence of our mission, as well as of our passion. EcoMotors’ journey comprises the quest for ever-greater Power Density, and the enabling of globally relevant applications of our technologies. We dimension the terms of our Mission as follows: Clean: [...]
HackFwd
We’re experienced tech entrepreneurs looking to support and invest in Europe’s most passionate geeks. We’re a pre-seed investment company designed to enable great people to launch great ideas. Our start-up and support process accelerates the route to beta, profitability, and success. via HackFwd.
Rotary Hydroponic Gardens Volksgarden
The Volksgarden® brings simple, clean, and amazingly effective hydroponics gardening to the comforts of your own home. Grow what you want, when you want! The Volksgarden® unit allows you to grow up to 80 plants at once. Herbs, Vegetables, Fruits, and Grains can be harvested easily and continuously by even beginner gardeners. Like all units [...]
Global forces: An introduction
Five crucibles of change will restructure the world economy for the foreseeable future. Companies that understand them will stand the best chance of shaping it. via Global forces: An introduction – McKinsey Quarterly – Strategy – Globalization.
Kno – Manifesto
Kno is a digital textbook – and we use the term loosely – that is about to change the way knowledge is transmitted and the way students learn. We started Kno from a tabula rasa – a blank slate – to create a new slate. First we did our homework about the way students do their homework. We studied [...]
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
Business schools are positioned on increasingly unsteady—and unpopular—ground. MBA enrollments fluctuate or decline; recruiters voice skepticism about the value of newly-minted MBA degrees; and deans, faculty, students, executives, and a concerned public wonder what business schools can or should do to train knowledgeable, principled, and skilled leaders.Against this backdrop of problems, business schools are poised [...]
Innovation Shifts to Asia and Europe, Away From The US
When I began the Most Innovative Companies annual survey with BCG’s James Andrew, nearly all the top 50 companies were American. This year, more than half of the most innovative companies in the world came from Asia and Europe. Despite all hoopla and blah-blah about innovation among CEOs in the US, the actual building of [...]
First break all the rules
GENERAL ELECTRIC’S health-care laboratory in Bangalore contains some of the company’s most sophisticated products—from giant body scanners that can accommodate the bulkiest American football players to state-of-the-art intensive-care units that can nurse the tiniest premature babies. But the device that has captured the heart of the centre’s boss, Ashish Shah, is much less fancy: a [...]
New masters of management: A special report on innovation in emerging markets
BUSINESS innovation in the emerging world has got to the point where all those individual advances add up to more than the sum of their parts. Just as Japan’s quality circles and just-in-time delivery were part of a new system called “lean production”, so the emerging world’s reverse innovation and frugal production are part of [...]
A Conversation With Jan Chipchase and Frog Design’s Chief Creative
How do you design for China, a country that hasn't had much exposure to design but whose citizens suddenly find themselves awash in new money? On Monday, Frog Design, one of the country's biggest and most respected design firms, announced it had hired Jan Chipchase, one of the world's leading usability researchers and, for many [...]