39 Most Tantalizing Business Cards:
Some really cool (and a couple rather obnoxious/risque) business card concepts.
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Quality Improvement programs like TQM are a key part of building a sustainable competitive advantage for companies. Every couple years there is an improvement or a new flavor of TQM, like six sigma and lean six sigma. Talking about quality… The Baldrige Program is a rather cool program for improving the process of quality in an organization… Brought to you from the US Department of Commerce through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)….
Pfizer — U.S. court invalidates Celebrex patent; generics loom | Reuters: Ouch!:-( Knocking the block of of the buster. Pfizer is taking a big hit with this court ruling against Celebrex patent. Surprisingly, the stock price, not so much so. Almost not even a jitter as it stays around $32 per share. That’s $3B in annual sales with $2B in the US (relevant to the US court ruling, obviously). IF the company repeats its $51B…
The COVID pandemic creates winners and losers. Will it simply accelerated some winners and some losers. As with any recession, it creates destructive innovation. In the sad carnage of the pandemic should lie silver linings. Telework is one. Winners are ZOOM, losers are office buildings. We’re spending some time on this concept trying to estimate how permanent this shift to remote work will be and the massive savings (time, fuel, traffic, etc.) But the focus…
Here is an article from the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) June 5 is World Anti-Counterfeiting Day (http://www.ipi.org/policy_blog/detail/june-5-is-world-anti-counterfeiting-day) It is a scary message counterfeiting of medications. Note the opening sentence abut the deaths in 2012 from a false medication for malaria treatment. Then, note that in some parts of the world about 1/3 of all medications are counterfeit.! As the author indicates, there seems to be no limit to what can be counterfeited from…
Chinese Hoverboard Booth Raided by U.S. Marshals at CES | Watch the video – Yahoo Finance: Also, there’s a better story and another video on Bloomberg here. That’s very brazen. A Chinese knock-off shows up at a big gadget expo (Consumer Electronics expo) with samples of a single-wheel hoverboard that distinctly looks and functions like the Onewheel patented by Future Motion of California (inventor Kyle Doerksen). The Onewheel utility patent was already issued and this…
Smaller cities get startup-style sustainability incubator | GreenBiz.com: Sustainable Green Incubators sounds very cool. (July 23, 2013 article). There area all kinds of cool things that can be done — especially energy efficiency-wise — that will have huge saving (and great environmental reductions as well). !:-) Here’s the incoming incubators (or accelerators). The inaugural 2013-14 accelerator class includes these cities: • Waco, Texas • Wichita, Kan. • Portland, Maine • Louisville, Ky. • Tucson, Ariz….
