The Book: Steve Jobs – By Walter Isaacson. Isaacson is an acclaimed biographer (Einstein, Franklin etc) and was able to get unfettered access to Jobs and close associates without editorial intervention from Jobs (lucky guy!). The result is an intersection of Jobs life, convictions and foibles.
Read moreThe Church’s offspring inspired by hosting the past annual Semi-Permanent line-ups, had more multi-disciplinary examples than ever before with speakers from around the globe highlighting all the new and exciting avenues opening up for those in the creative industry. With bright purple wristbands adorned the crowd piled into the auditorium for an introduction from New Zealand’s iconic Radar. He warmed up the audience the tale of the Taranaki Highwayman, highlighting the point that criminals are the world’s most creative people.
Read moreThere are three critical problems that confront anyone trying to undertake a product development. This presentation investigates how to identify a winning product, what are the ingredients of success and why working together matters.
Due to several requests we have loaded the transcript from the presentation delivered by our managing director Timothy Allan at last weeks Successful Product Development Seminar. This can be used with the Slideshare presentation to provide a bit more detail against the presentation slides.
Read moreAlfred Mann is one of the great medical device developers of our time. I had the privilege to attend the Medical Design Excellence Awards in New York where he was awards the MDEA Lifetime Achievement award.
Today was awards day. The Medical Design Excellence awards recognise the achievements of medical product manufacturers, engineers, designers and clinicians who are responsible for groundbreaking innovations that “change the face of healthcare”. Encircle had been selected by the Medical Design Excellence programme as a breakthrough medical device for general hospital and therapeutic applications.
Read moreWell the MD&M East tradeshow is massive http://canontradeshows.com/expo/east11/ . In true US form, this tradeshow had almost it all. The tradeshow is geared towards original equipment manufacturing (OEM) for medical devices and services.
Read moreToday I attended the MD&M East Conference programme which included presentations on the FDA 510(k) process by Marjorie Shulman and Semih Oktay, a presentation of product development by Carrolyn Rice from Johnson & Johnson, and Intellectual Property by Andrew Kimmel from Knobbe Martens.
Read moreHistory has it that the Dutch East Indian Trading Company pulled into the New York area to trade with local Indians around in 1609 following Henry Hudson's search for a Northwest Passage. From the very beginning it was a trading port and it was this beginning that has helped shape the mode of operations with the financial hub of America; Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange; this was my agenda for Day 2.
Read moreAfter three great flights I arrived into sunny New York City for my first visit. Thaegenda for Day 1: Mid & Upper Manhattan > the galleries and museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET ), the Solomon Guggenheim and Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). If you can’t get to New York – check out these galleries at http://www.googleartproject.com/ - Google has created this amazing virtual gallery of all the leading museums and galleries online.
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