A New Breed of Innovation
By the mid-1980’s, the American semiconductor industry seemed like it was doomed. Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper...
View ArticleHow Product Quality Transforms Your Ability to Innovate [Case Study]
Too often, companies are sold on a target price for their product. They want to charge somewhere between what the market is willing to pay and what’s necessary to turn a profit — sometimes at four to...
View ArticleInnovation and Intrepreneurship at SMEs: T3LGROUP France
Nicolas Bry interviews Benjamin Ott, a young innovator working at T3LGroup, a French SME with a long tradition of developing new manufacturing processes, and product applications for office products,...
View ArticleThis Startup Is Combining Big Data and Materials Science to Revolutionize...
Greg Mulholland didn’t take the typical route to getting his MBA. He had no background in banking or consulting and hadn’t even taken a business course as an undergraduate. After earning an Engineering...
View ArticleInnovation Isn’t About Control, But Access
Completed in 1928, Henry Ford’s River Rouge plant was a marvel of its age. It was almost 100% vertically integrated, even producing its own steel and by the 1930s over 100,000 employees worked there,...
View ArticleExtending the Transformation
Innovation can be the spark that galvanizes an organization and resets the whole of it for higher and faster growth. After using innovation methods successfully to create meaningful products, services,...
View Article7 Fields and Professions That Are Beginning to Rely on Virtual Reality
Innovations in technology are evolving so rapidly that the sci-fi depictions we dreamed of as children are becoming reality. Cars that drive themselves, mini personal computers with touch screens...
View ArticleAmerica Can Win Manufacturing in the 21st Century
It’s become conventional wisdom that the last 30 years have been a hotbed of innovation, but evidence suggests otherwise. As Robert Gordon explains in The Rise and Fall of American Growth, productivity...
View ArticleSucceeding with Outsourcing? Time to Reinvest for Success!
With a hypersensitivity towards profit margins, too often companies justify outsourced manufacturing with lower costs and better-looking accounting numbers. But this cost-cutting craze is at odds with...
View ArticleThe Department of Energy is Helping to Create a New Future in Manufacturing
In the recession that followed the dotcom crash in 2000, the United States lost 5 million manufacturing jobs and, while there has been an uptick in recent years, all indications are that they are never...
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