Rmukesh Gupta

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Wannapraneur to Entrepreneur. Who is on the show today: In this episode, we host John Chisholm. John is a serial entrepreneur, investor and an author. Why is he on the show: He is president and chairman emeritus of the worldwide MIT Alumni Association and a trustee of MIT and of the Santa Fe Institute. He advises entrepreneurs through the MIT Venture Mentoring Service , the Thiel Foundation 20under20 Fellowship , and the Plug and Play Tech Center.

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Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Recently, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has published key findings of their latest “Most Innovative Companies 2014” survey. Beside the annual ranking, headed by the top three companies Apple, Google and Samsung, some insightful outcomes with regard to organizational and cultural requirements have striked my eye. According to BCG’s research, successfully innovating companies approach innovation as a system.

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Innovation in Practice

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Medical device makers have been trying for years to replicate the success of drug-eluting stents - devices that do a particular job while at the same time, delivering a therapeutic drug. Here's a new one that demonstrates the Task Unification pattern. Task Unification is defined as: assigning an additional task to an existing resource. That resource should be in the immediate vicinity of the problem, or what we call The Closed World.

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Betterific

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The first innovation competition we ever ran was with a startup looking to get into the travel space. We had built Betterific as a site for ideas and wanted to test this new concept – of hosting crowdsourced idea competitions. It was a gamble – how would our community react? Would brands be “wow”ed by our community members’ ideas?

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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