My post today is a little late this morning. I was consumed yesterday monitoring Hurricane Irma since my elderly mom lives in Fort Myers, Florida which took a near direct hit from Irma. We talked after the eye-wall passed (amazingly her cell phone worked) and she was fine. She was able to shelter in place with four others in a well protected condo on the second floor with ... [Click to Continue...]
Happy Labor Day
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Does your innovation team “Focus and Finish?” Part Two
Back on July 7, 2011, I wrote a post titled “Does Your Innovation Team “Focus and Finish.” I was talking to one of my colleagues this week, Dan Lamone (one of our guest post authors and current MBA student, The Ohio State University, Fisher School of Business,class of 2018) about a meeting he was in and the topic of focusing on the right project came up. He used one of my ... [Click to Continue...]
Recycle and Disposal of Plastic Food Packaging Waste 13: the need for flexibility in an increasingly complex world.
Guest Post by Dr. Robert (Bob) Humphreys History teaches that very large, complex human organizations and systems tend to be inflexible, preferring resistance to evolution when confronted with change. Waste plastic recycling systems and the laws and regulations that govern them are an excellent example. Most plastic in municipal solid waste (MSW) is used food packaging. ... [Click to Continue...]
Recycle and Disposal of Plastic Food Packaging Waste 12: Thermal Technologies 3
Guest Post by Dr. Robert (Bob) Humphreys In Post 11 in this series, we gave a short overview of plastic-to-syngas, one of several technologies for conversion of waste plastic to useful products. Syngas is a valuable product because it can be burned as a fuel or can be converted into liquid fuels (diesel, gasoline) or methanol that, in turn, can be converted to a broad ... [Click to Continue...]