The social enterprise in a world disrupted : Leading the shift from survive to thrive.Making the shift from “survive to thrive” depends on an organization becoming distinctly human at its core—a different way of being that approaches every question, every issue, and every decision from a human angle first.IN 2020, COVID-19 forced organizations around the world to enact radically new ways of...

An autonomous vehicle company acquired this year by Amazon has unveiled a four-person "robo-taxi," a compact, multidirectional vehicle designed for dense, urban environments.The carriage-style interior of the vehicle produced by Zoox Inc. has two benches that face each other. There is no steering wheel. It measures just under 12 feet long, about a foot shorter than a standard Mini Cooper.It is...

Shipageddon is here. Can Route, which helps manage delivery expectations and even insure packages, soothe nerves? Investors have $35 million riding on it.The writing has been on the wall since the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a massive surge in online shopping: This holiday season is going to be a total mess.In what many are referring to as “shipageddon,” the already strained ecosystem of merc...

Today’s Chinese biopharmaceutical firms offer a major opportunity for both multinational companies (MNCs) and local companies. Thanks to a decade of sustained government support—including policy reform, talent development, and funding—China is now vying aggressively with MNCs for domestic market share in the innovative drugs sector. Over the next five to ten years, these homegrown companies...

Airborne sonar systems may actually be a possibility, according to a Stanford team that's using lasers to get a strong sonar signal going underwater, and then reading the reflected ultrasound waves.Radar and LiDAR have been incredibly quick and effective tools for mapping and surveying the Earth's surface from aircraft and satellites, but while they can deliver accurate readings through cloud a...

Hospital patients could be treated in prefabricated drive-through clinics without leaving their cars, according to a concept by architect NBBJ.The clinics could also be used to administer coronavirus vaccinations, according to the architects.The prefabricated units "could be especially effective for accelerated vaccine roll-out, as it enables simultaneous distribution to every passenger in the...

The bionic advantage is clear—and it’s even more relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonbionic companies will have a hard time navigating the crisis, and their relative lack of digital sophistication will make it harder to reboot once the pandemic has subsided. For this reason, it’s vital—even during these extraordinarily challenging days—for nonbionic organizations to pursue digital ma...

2020 has been a year to remember, but one which most of us would probably prefer to forget. With the Covid-19 pandemic turning everyday life on its head and ending the lives of so many, a lot of aspects of the last twelve months are easily lost from memory, however. Take the Australian bushfires. In January, the devastating blazes ravaging the country and burning 15.9 million hectares of bush i...

U.S. patent application, US20200386570, relates to a handheld communication device that is configured to detect a geographic position and the camera direction of the device.The device can identify a route from the geographic position to a point of interest, and augment a real-time video stream with an indicator for the direction to travel to the point of interest. The illustration below depicts...