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In the last article, we discussed the culture at DARPA that makes sure the agency funds or works at world-changing ideas. If you haven’t gone through the article yet, you must as it has [...]

Earlier, we discussed how DARPA makes sure that it indulges in breakthrough innovation and not in the incremental one, and the different processes DARPA follows to create and manage breakthrough [...]

Internet, Stealth Aircraft, artificial limbs, a flat screen display are all the inventions that are children of DARPA. Time and again, if there is one organization that never settled for [...]

If you are leading business and are responsible for its growth you might always be thinking about – What’s next? This ‘what’s next?’ is majorly about futuristic technologies for more than 80% of [...]

Last week, in a call with Mr. Chang – research executive at the R&D of a huge chemical firm in China, we gave away the credentials of a magical wand we had. And Northstar got a chance [...]

Every business wants to innovate but a will alone isn’t enough. During a survey by Accenture, 96% of executive agreed that their long-term success depends on developing new ideas. However, only a [...]

When confronted with the problem of supplying enormous solar panels into space, NASA engineers found the solution in ancient Japanese art of paper folding – origami. Be it supplying large [...]

One of the key concepts of TRIZ theory is the Ideal Final Result or IFR or simply an ideal solution. Before we move ahead, let me explain what is an Ideal Final Result as the three scenarios [...]

Almost every day, we see some company, a giant, specializing in its own domain, stuck in a bit of a pickle. The pickle could be some trouble with its research, its product optimization or any [...]

Boeing’s Dreamliner 787, which Boeing advertised as 20% fuel efficient, was grounded in 2013. In the same year, Tesla’s Model S came under a federal safety investigation after it caught fire at [...]