Lian is a quality manager in China and working on a big quality improvement initiative in Nanjing. Today she comes back from vacation in Europe and is shocked visiting the work place: “You cannot imagine. All what we had achieved and worked out before the summer break, was gone. They had fallen back to the ...
Innovation
Energy Crisis and Innovation
These days a lot of companies we work for are struggling with trends. Who is driving innovation in a company - the demand of customers, or the engineers that find new solutions, or the suppliers with a new model? Many engineers in R&D need to wait till a customer requires new innovations and is willing ...
Great collection about innovation: In Barcelona
Innovative City Barcelona – and the worldwide Innovation: Find the most interesting articles about innovation … like this one Ask the right questions: Why do we still hear radio and go to the movies - these old technologies could have been replaced - or not ? Technologies want to survive, and they reinvent themselves ...
Innovations made in and for India
There are a lot of discussions going on, if innovation can be simple tools. Most of the European managers believe that innovations are High Tech and based on expensive R&D. This is the technology driven way, but there is another one, the diver of the masses and buyers. In India people cannot afford high technology, ...
Innovation – viel Mythen im Land
Liebe Claudia, vielen Dank fuer den interessanten Artikel. Innovation im Voerborgenen handelsblatt 30.01.2008 "Immer mehr Großkonzerne vergeben Entwicklungsarbeit an externe Fachleute. Längst sind solche Ingenieurdienstleister zum Motor des technischen Fortschritts geworden. Sie kreieren innovative Lösungen, konzipieren komplette Systeme und schaffen so Jobs en masse. " Ich war gestern bei einem interessanten Vortrag ...