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AI and New Product Search: Accelerator for Innovation

By Dick Weisinger

In many fields product innovation has historically been one of trial and error. The classic example is Thomas Edison spending 1200 hours testing a range of filaments before finding the right one that could be used to charge an incandescent

Intangible Investment: Predictor of a Business’s Growth and Productivity

By Dick Weisinger

Standard measurement tools for productivity and rturn on investment are often based on parameters that can be easily quantified for measurement. The health of a country is normally measured by factors like GDP. But GDP doesn’t take into account and

Technology: Can Data from Patent Registrations Predict the Rate of Future Innovation?

By Dick Weisinger

For more than a decade a group of researchers at MIT have tried to develop a method to predict the possibility of up-coming innovations and how long it may take before the capability can be realized. They began with an

Accelerated Disruption: The Five Year Plan for Improved Sustainability

By Dick Weisinger

The five year plan. Medium-term goal planning. A way to focus priorities and concentrate efforts over short periods of time to achieve top priorities. It was invented by the Soviets and used in Communist China, but IBM has picked up

Innovation: Despite Uncertainty, the Best Course is Prudent Risk Taking

By Dick Weisinger

The COVID-19 pandemic has been unprecedented in how quickly it has managed to totally upend both our work and personal lives. Whole sectors of industry have been shutdown or been forced to readjust to new requirements and conditions. In particular,