The Innovation Summit held at the new Shell Technology Center in Houston last month discussed some of the difficult challenges related energy, food and water that we face today — and that are becoming ever more pressing as the world’s population grows. Shell calls this the “stress nexus” because these three areas — food, water
Next week is Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE FORUM North America, the company’s premier customer event. Al Bunshaft, Managing Director, North America, will kick off the event, which will be keynoted by Joe Pine, author of the bestselling The Experience Economy and the new Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier. Next, Bernard Charlès, Dassault Systèmes’ President
This month, @theBif launched a new CODE Green Energy Lab, with the foundational project In Good Company: Behavioral Methods for Energy Efficiency. I’ve been leading this project, and therefore unusually immersed in the energy world, with a particular focus on practices within the commercial sector. From the start, there has been a clear distinction in
The American Productivity and Quality Center has been tracking corporate productivity, process improvement and knowledge management for decades. In their 2011 book, The New Edge in Knowledge, APQC president Carla O’Dell and executive director Cindy Hubert report on the results from companies like Fluor, (an engineering, procurement and construction firm), oil and gas giant ConocoPhillips,
Similar to the popular Creative Whack Pack (which debuted back in 1989), the Free the Genie game (2005) by Mitch Ditkoff is a set of 55 cards that teams (or individuals) can play. The cardpack comes with a booklet that explains 7 team plays, 5 Idea Poker variations and 7 solo plays. Each card belongs
Holiday time a perfect time to talk about collaborative games that encourage innovation. One of my favorites is called “Life’s a Pitch,” made by Zobmondo. It’s a board game that involves drawing two sets of cards. First, all players draw 5 cards which contain the name of an object, such as “baby blanket” or “jar
Two milestones occurred recently. First, the world passed the one billion car mark — more than one billion vehicles drive on the roads today. That’s a lot of cars, but it’s only the beginning because consumers in newly-advancing countries like China, India, and Brazil are buying another 18 million cars per year. This rising tide
What if… you could teach an entire country to do CPR; … you flew in a yet to built plane; … you could treat arthrosclerosis faster and more easily than angioplasty? Wouldn’t it be cool to run a company that did that? Bernard Charlès thinks so. He’s CEO of Dassault Systèmes, (DS), creator of 3D simulation
In their annual global survey of executives, the consulting firm McKinsey highlighted an, “ongoing shift in global economic activity from developed to developing economies, accompanied by growth in the number of consumers in emerging markets.” They also saw that technology is not only unlocking the free flow of information but is also creating truly global
Even for those of you who know of GE’s (aka. General Electric’s) stance on innovation in the sustainability space might not realize how long ago they staked their claim. Over six years ago GE introduced the, initially derided, concept of ‘Ecomagination;’ a program that would lie at the heart of GE’s efforts to build a