September 7, 2009 – 8:49 am
For a very long time, at least if I count my 27 year life, discussions about nature has been seen as something “fluffy”, business for “tree huggers” and something that does not really have an important part of “real life”. I am really longing for the time when it is once again natural to talk [...]
September 7, 2009 – 8:28 am
If one innovation approach is helpful, you might think using more than one approach to innovation would be even better. Not necessarily, write Frank T. Rothaermel and Andrew M. Hess in an article on innovation strategy in the new issue of Business Insight, MIT Sloan Management Review’s collaboration with The Wall Street Journal. In a [...]
September 3, 2009 – 7:53 pm
By Janis Oslejs MolPort, a privately held cheminformatics company, is to chemical molecules what Amazon marketplace is to books. Approximately seven million unique research chemicals are sold worldwide by thousands of companies, many of them small labs. Finding if the molecule can be bought and who the seller is, let alone sourcing, is inefficient, time consuming [...]
September 3, 2009 – 8:11 am
The report, “Why Sustainability is now the Key Driver of Innovation” from Harvard Business Review, lays out five stages for successfully adopting corporate sustainability. Authors came to their conclusions by looking at best practices at companies such as HP, Wal-Mart, Clorox and others. Stage 1 – Viewing compliance as opportunity. Stage 2 – Making value [...]
September 2, 2009 – 9:04 am
“In the first half of the 21st century, the human population and power to influence Earth’s climate and biology are expected to surge before eventually stabilizing. For several decades, scientists, economists, and other experts have been trying to design strategies for meshing human activities with the limits of planet and the needs of future generations. [...]
