Facebook, Anonymity and Healthcare?
Facebook, anonymity and healthcare are three topics that historically have not been associated with each other. This is potentially going to change. Up until now, Facebook has been a key place where you would go to establish your online identity and to lay out the connections you have to friends and family members. In the [...]
Is Hiring More Effective than Developing Leaders?
If you are similar to other executives, you sit in your share of meetings discussing what it will take to accomplish business objectives and sustain success. During the course of this discussion, the issue of buying or building leadership talent often surfaces. While this is an important talent management issue, there is a related issue [...]
The 3D Printing of Medical Devices
What happens if there is not a good medical device solution for patients because of high costs or just inadequate options? Instead of accepting that this is simply one of the difficulties patients and doctors face when using medical devices, some innovative thinkers find another way. Recently, this “way” has taken the form of a [...]
Private Insurance Exchanges Gain Interest
Forty-five percent of employers have implemented or are thinking about using a private health insurance exchange for active employees before 2018 according to a survey conducted by the Private Exchange Evaluation Collaborative. Private exchanges are run benefit consulting firms in conjunction with insurance companies. They are not new, but business interest in them has increased [...]
Boeing and SpaceX Propel NASA Commercial Crew Program
As of this week, NASA announced it will partner with two American companies to provide transportation for American astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS). According to Reuters, the U.S. space agency awarded a $4.2 billion contract to Boeing whose headquarters are in Chicago, Illinois and a $2.6 billion contract to SpaceX that [...]
iPhone or Android: The Transition
With the release of the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, Apple is causing some Android users to seriously consider their brand loyalty. In a Wall Street Journal interview, Apple CEO, Tim Cook, said he believes the release of the latest versions of the iPhone will result in the “mother of all upgrades.” While some [...]
Establishing an Environment of Accountability
Perhaps you have heard some of these responses from employees at your organization: “I didn’t get it done, because I was buried.” “I didn’t know that’s what you wanted.” “They didn’t follow the process which made us miss the deadline.” Placing the blame on others, producing the wrong deliverable, missing a due date and not [...]
Detecting Multiple Cancer Risks at Once
According to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the World Cancer Research Fund International, an estimated 14.1 million cancer cases were reported worldwide in 2012. This makes innovations in diagnostic tests for cancer newsworthy to say the least. Based on a recently published study in Genetics in Medicine, multi-gene tests for detecting cancer in more than [...]
Fighting Credit Card Fraud with Gas
According to a 2013 Federal Reserve study, the total number of credit card transactions in the U.S. was 26.2 billion in 2012, and the total value of these transactions was $2.48 trillion. With these staggering numbers showing how much credit cards are used along with the money at stake, consumers, government agencies and businesses alike [...]
Tesla Gigafactory Drives Forward
Earlier this year, Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, shared his plans to build a gigafactory to manufacture enough lithium-ion battery packs by 2020 to power as many as 500,000 electric vehicles. Since then, he has been wasting little time to make these plans a reality. This month, Forbes.com and Automotive Engineer magazine reported that Tesla has [...]
