Prepare to have your mind blown as bridge is 3D-printed over Dutch canal – AOL.com:
Like (printing) a bridge over troubled waters.
There’s some really KQQL additions in this technology. First, it is thinking outta the box. Taking the printer out of the box allows it to build endlessly using robot technology.
So the plan is to build the bridge as you go.
Rita Gunther McGrath on the End of Competitive Advantage: Great insight on competitive advantage, flexibility, and innovation. Article, but a nice video of Rita as well. Book:McGrath’s most recent book, The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013) ‘via Blog this’
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)….
The Refractive Thinker Brain Teaser Game App by Dr. Cheryl Lentz — Kickstarter Interesting game idea. Having fun while you learn… Or just having fun, that can be okay too!:-) I think it would be cool to create RT Teasers for each volume of the Refractive thinker books. (maybe starting with the next one). I could see Profs using it with articles and books that students were (supposed) to read. Have a little fun with…
On a sister site, there is a discussion by DelphiMan about the state of scenario planning today, and some new research on ways to squeeze out the genius among laypeople crowds: Scenarios Now and the Genius (hidden) within Crowd,Check it out here on ScenarioPlans.com (or DelphiPlan.com).First, a McKinsey study showed that CEOs really wished that they had done more scenario planning after the great recession. Before, really. But, now with almost 10 years in the…
The Volusia County Water Summit – Stetson Today: The water summit discussed here, turned out to be a rather big event. Really good information & analysis. The right people thinking about the right issues. It seems that everyone agreed to do something about improving water management and water quality in the county. Although this is a non-binding agreement among the players, it is a really big step forward. Once everyone realizes those few areas where…
Symantec, Microsoft, Blue Cross: Intellectual Property – Bloomberg: A patent troll, by any other name, may not be called a “patent troll” in court. This would be funny, if it weren’t true. The often called “patent troll” company Intellectual Ventures LLC, can not be disparages by such names as “patent troll” in court the presiding judge says. IV — a play on the vampire concept of draining all the blood from the body of otherwise living…
