Mind candy 21 April 2022

Strategy is about asking the right question on how events, technology and trends impact the organisation and how to adapt to those changes. Here are a few questions you should consider to keep your strategic thinking fresh and up to date.

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The topics for 21 April 2022 are synthetic biology, air conditioning, renewable energy storage, sustainability commitments, digital twinning, spacesuits, the Hercules beetle (biomimicry), CFOs and innovation, brain transplants that can read your mind, nanosensors, rat robots, hydro panels, GenZ, energy budgets, tiny houses and strategy.

How will synthetic biology impact on your business model?

More than 33 synthetic biology scenarios to consider

https://www.ronimmink.com/synthetic-biology/

My blog about “The genesis machine”. Synthetic biology will eventually intersect with every single industry sector, and therefore every business.

How eco-friendly is your organisation?

• Rethinking air conditioning amid climate change

https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2022/rethinking-air-conditioning-amid-climate-change?

Scientists are working on eco-friendlier solutions as global demand for cooling grows.

• The Renewable-Energy Revolution Will Need Renewable Storage

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/the-renewable-energy-revolution-will-need-renewable-storage?

Can gravity, pressure, and other elemental forces save us from becoming a battery-powered civilization?

• We have to make sustainability commitments that we don’t know how we’re going to meet, CEO says

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/21/arcelik-on-sustainability-commitments-including-net-zero-emissions.html

Long-term business survival is possible only when a company does right by the environment.

Can you apply digital twinning?

Soter creates digital twins to capture and improve workers’ ergonomics

https://venturebeat.com/2022/04/20/soter-creates-digital-twins-to-capture-and-improve-workers-ergonomics/?

An innovative model that captures a digital twin of each worker’s ergonomic behaviour to personalise feedback. Each worker gets a personalized learning program with specific tutorials, guides, recommendations and self-videoing opportunities to better understand tasks that involve more force, cause pain or increase fatigue

What can you learn from space technology?

Spacesuits are showing their age

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/spacesuits-are-showing-their-age/21808842?

The question is whether spacewalks and Moonwalks by people actually achieve anything that robots (either remotely controlled or fully autonomous) cannot

What can you mimic from nature?

Real-time ultrafast humidity sensing optical sensor

https://nano-magazine.com/news/2022/4/14/real-time-ultrafast-humidity-sensing-optical-sensor?

The Hercules beetle native to South America has a fascinating trait of changing its shell colours depending on the external humidity conditions. Recently, a sensor that changes colours depending on the humidity like this beetle with 10,000 times faster speed than the conventional optical sensors has been proposed.

How good are you at innovation?

In conversation: The CFO’s critical role in innovation

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/in-conversation-the-cfos-critical-role-in-innovation?

By embracing discipline and well-defined processes, innovation teams can make finance leaders their biggest allies.

What technology trends should you follow?

• The brain-reading devices helping paralysed people to move, talk and touch

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01047-w?

Implants are becoming more sophisticated — and are attracting commercial interest.

• Extremely sensitive nano-sensors can detect trace amounts of molecules

https://nano-magazine.com/news/2022/4/20/extremely-sensitive-nano-sensors-can-detect-trace-amounts-of-molecules?

Researchers have developed a new type of sensor, about 500 times smaller than the width of a human hair, with an unprecedented ability to detect extremely small amounts of molecules.?

• Agile robotic rat SQuRo can squeeze through irregular narrow spaces

https://www.inceptivemind.com/agile-robotic-rat-squro-squeeze-through-irregular-narrow-spaces/24252/

A team has developed a novel robotic rat named SQuRo (small-sized quadruped robotic rat), which is capable of mimicking the motion of actual rats inside narrow spaces.

• A company can make drinking water from nothing but air and sunlight

https://interestingengineering.com/drinking-water-from-air-and-sunlight?

The hydropanels utilize solar energy to condense clean, pollutant-free drinking water from the air.

How authentic are you?

Marketing to Gen Z takes new tech, channels, strategies

https://www.techtarget.com/searchcustomerexperience/news/252516012/Marketing-to-Gen-Z-takes-new-tech-channels-strategies?

The 15- to 25-year-olds of Generation Z have specific, uncompromising requirements of authenticity, inclusivity and environmental sustainability -- and on top of all that, they demand a good deal.

What happens if?

• Implementation of energy budgets:??https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/04/the-energy-requirements-of-a-good-life-are-surprisingly-low/?
• Tiny becomes a movement?https://www.fastcompany.com/90742768/these-net-zero-backyard-tiny-houses-generate-extra-power-to-help-pay-for-themselves?

How good are you at strategy?

When Strategy Meets Results

https://www.hrotoday.com/marketing-as-a-service/when-strategy-meets-results/

We are approaching the halfway mark of another year living and working in a global economy that was just starting to recover from the pandemic, as the war in Ukraine introduced a renewed wave of fear and uncertainly

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"The best way to predict the future is to create it"

Peter Drucker

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