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Nature’s Marvels Inspire Maritime Innovation: The ABB Dynafin Story

Throughout history, humans have sought inspiration from the natural world to solve complex problems and push the boundaries of innovation. This approach, known as Boundaryless Thinking, encourages us to transcend traditional boundaries and explore uncharted territories, where we can uncover valuable insights and connections that may have been overlooked. One…

Airlines safety improves through automobile solutions

The de Havilland Comet, the world's first commercial jet airliner, was launched in 1952. Tragically, within a year of its entry into service, the aircraft experienced a series of highly publicized accidents, with three Comets lost due to catastrophic mid-flight mishaps, resulting in significant loss of life. The Comet's engineering…

Spinning Innovation: Maori Poi’s Modern Resurgence

In the outskirts of Auckland, New Zealand, where rolling hills met the vast ocean, resided an elderly woman named Margaret. Her days at the tranquil retirement community were pleasant, but she longed for a deeper connection to her roots and the rich Maori heritage that had shaped her identity. Little…

Phygital approach to make subscription model sticky

Apps are integral part of digital economy and heavily relies on users constantly engaging with the apps. However, with proliferation of apps there is severe competition to get the ‘attention of a user’. This is where innovative hybrid models are coming together to use phygital = physical+ digital, to create…

Digital Health Engagement with ‘Wheel of Health’

Insurance is no more sold on the principles of fear and love. The world of digitization has forced the Insurers to rethink their positioning and innovate on their core products. Insurance is now promoted as way for healthy living and using power of data insurers are relooking at what are…

F1 inspired Healthcare practices

F1 for many is a world class sport and mega entertainment platform. However, things that happen behind the scenes to make F1 a success is never analysed or given the right attention. When a group of health care surgeons and heathcare professionals were looking for ideas to improve their practices,…

Swarm intelligence to solve business problems

Everyday businesses are flooded with the need to make all sorts of decisions - strategic, operational and tactical .Many of these decisions are taken by business managers or leaders who may or may not always follow a popular view for that particular decision. Have you ever looked into how nature…

Canary from coal mine to software testing

Canary release is a technique to reduce the risk of introducing a new software version in production by slowly rolling out the change to a small subset of users before rolling it out to the entire infrastructure and making it available to everybody. Canary testing is recommended as good practice…

Early bowerman waffle outsoles rectangle

Nike shoe sole inspired by waffle iron

Nike's co- founder,Bill Bowerman, who was a track and field coach at the time, had been searching for a way to make shoes lighter and faster. While he was working to find a solution to this problem, his chat with his wife over breakfast got him the inspiration to build…

Photocopier drum inspired by beer

A product innovation example offered in 1991 by Ikujiro Nonaka and Martin Kenney in the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management involved a key part of a photocopier — its drum. A team of engineers at Canon Inc. was considering how to redesign the drum in order to ease photocopiers’…

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