In my consulting practice, innovation challenges that dogged teams having very good and experienced engineers for months or even years were resolved in a matter of days or hours. It was not magic; we ...

When I joined Machine Design three years ago, my No.1 goal was to expand my knowledge of engineering best practices and its relationship to the manufacturing industry. To be successful, I would need ...

Rigorous methods to foster creativity? Should we believe in them? Most techniques are disappointing or at least random in their results. However, the TRIZ method is an exception, probably because it ...

Sam Adeyemi is CEO of Sam Adeyemi GLC Inc., a global leadership consultancy with a vision to raise high-impact leaders. Creativity isn’t just creation. In fact, one of the most underrated strengths of ...

Imagine taking concepts that can be seen around you every day, and using them to solve technical problems in your business. Well, that’s the type of training that Worcester’s own Technical Innovation ...

“The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself…[the adjacent possible] captures ...