February 8, 2010 Dean van Leeuwen
Anthony Atala asks, “Can we grow organs instead of transplanting them?” His lab at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is doing just that — engineering tissues and whole organs (bladders and, soon, kidneys) using smart bio-materials and cutting-edge techniques.
Watch his amazing short video on TED MED
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February 2, 2010 Dean van Leeuwen
The Great Recession has made CEOs rethink strategic planning. Walt Shill, head of the North American management consulting practice for Accenture believes that: “Strategy, as we knew it, is dead…Corporate clients decided that increased flexibility and accelerated decision making are much more important than simply predicting the future.”
In my my latest presentation Brave New [...]
January 29, 2010 Dean van Leeuwen
In this months Harvard Business Review, Roger Martin writes that “modern capitalism can be broken down into two major eras. The first, managerial capitalism, began in 1932 and was defined by the then radical notion that firms ought to have professional management. The second, shareholder value capitalism, began in 1976. Its governing premise is that [...]
January 29, 2010 Graeme Codrington
This weekend, Sky TV in the UK will become the first to broadcast a live sports event in 3-d. This is a preview of regular channel that will be launched by Sky in April. It will be available at no extra cost to anyone with an HD box.
Read the press release [...]
Awesome Roger. Bet there were more than six cars racing on the playstation [See Graeme's post on professional sport elsewhere in the blog].
Nicely done. BTW, is that “I made this” Roger?
Yes, it is – soon to be “Burning dog” Roger…hope things are going well at M*ssing L*nk
Never a dull moment
I still need to thank you for Conrad, I clicked on your link from here and that’s how I found him.
Burning dog, nice…!
Excellent stuff. George Lucus step aside!
Ah yes, the great connectivity of the internet…bringing us all closer together…
Conrad is indeed the graphics genius and has thanked me profusely for the job (not that I did anything – it was more your own curiousity). Hope you do something suprising for him next week Tues – his bday. I hear you’ve sent him on a Maya course. Awesome – got to see a demo of it today at the Mediatech expo at the Sandton Convention Centre – just all kinds of wow – and stuff I’d like to get into someday.