Tag Archives: structure

On This Earth Day, It’s Actually Easier To Be Green

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 EDITOR’S NOTE: Forbes has just published Curbing Cars: America’s Independence From The Auto Industry, an eBook investigating why a growing number of Americans are giving up their cars....

Defining And Sculpting Interactions Between Man And Technology

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By Jonathan Follett Editor’s note: we’re running a series of five excerpts from our forthcoming book Designing for Emerging Technologies, a compilation of works by industry experts in areas of user...

Can Homemade Goods Become The Global Brands Of Tomorrow?

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One of the more significant trends of recent years is the impact of technology on homemade manufacturing. A diffuse entrepreneurial community, sometimes referred to as the Maker Movement, has been...

Why Innovation Needs Outsiders and Fresh Ideas

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When we’re stuck on a hard problem, we go seek out a superior. It seems like common sense. It’s something that is imbued into us from childhood and into adulthood. When you can’t solve that math...

Grammys Taxes and the IRS

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The Grammys award show is a big production, which GRAMMY.com calls Music’s Biggest Night. Awards are coveted for their status and industry recognition, but they can increase performer...

The Mayors Challenge: Sparking Government Innovation In European Cities

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In an interview with James Anderson, head of government-innovation at Bloomberg Philanthropies, we discussed their 2013-2014 Mayors Challenge—a competition to inspire European cities to come up with...
    






Making Sense Of Zappos And Holacracy

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“Zappos Says Goodbye To Bosses,” was the recent headline in the Washington Post. “Zappos is going holacratic: no job titles, no managers, no hierarchy,” wrote Aimee Groth in Quartz. “Gurus Gone Wild...
    






MC-12 Crash Claims Three Lives

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An airplane crash occurred in the eastern region of Afghanistan. Three people, all of them Americans, died in the crash which was said to be due to internal faults in the plane engine. Two of the...