Growth through Knowledge for Action & Action for Knowledge: stimulating critical thinking, facilitating practical action
Change or Die : the research, the article and the relevant book are over 10 years old, yet the topic is ever relevant: #change is no longer an option, is no-other-way one-way path.
We need to realise that we can be in control of it, rather than being victim of it, by leveraging on natural aspects as #brainplasticity and tools as #framing and #reframing #thinking and #communication
A few days ago an innovative solution has been presented to transport safely and swiftly newborns during emergencies via means of terrestrial or airborne transportation. The baby carrier, named ‘BabyPod 20’ has ben developed by Williams Advanced Engineering. The project has been developed in cooperation with Advance Healthcare Technology (AHT) that has been present within this specific manufacturing field for years.
This project recalls other ones in which healthcare has been benefiting by expertise and technologies originating from Motorsport. Some of these projects have been recently presented an even organised by SGINetwork (a scientific innovation development hub) where McLaren Applied Technologies pointed out several projects that have been developed by them (one of the first one was carried forward in cooperation with Glaxo).
Once again innovation in the healthcare field has been generated from Motorsport as we have pointed out in an article we wrote months ago ‘Motorsport Industry, Innovation and Knowledge Sharing Across Industries’ linked o a presentation we made in September 2016 within a conference held at Regent’s University in London.
Not only technology but also organisational processes developed on track have been found very useful to improve healthcare processes as pointed out in this real life example ‘F1 Pit Stop Techniques To Help Save Lives in Resuscitation of Newborn Babies’ .
While working on the research relevant to the book Fast Track Innovation we are finding other projects linking Motorsport know-how to advanced healthcare systems: projects that have been brought forward even many years ago, by companies much smaller than Williams and McLaren yet technically extremely effective.
Many Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME) within the Motorsport Industry can fully take advantage of know-how that they already have and that they can convey (in an aware methodical way), recognised value added within other fields, not only healthcare. Stay tuned …
An article published on latest July-August issue of the Harvard Business Review, titled “Liberal Arts in the Data Age” and authored by JM Olejarz points out how the humanities can have a driving role within the imagination needed to channel the potential of technologies; technologies that by now are growing at a faster and faster pace with increasing market impacts in a wider range of fields.
The famous quote by Albert Einstein “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand” creates a framework for this fine balance and synergy between imagination and technology.
Erik Kim recently wrote a blog article entitled “10 lessons Pablo Picasso can teach you” and quite interestingly he lists a series of actual tools that have been utilised by the artists to develop his masterpieces and that nowadays can represent actual ways to drive such technological developments.
In my opinion this represents a fundamental perspective that enlightens the increasing relevance of the human factor within a changing world strongly impacted by change fuelled by Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and other systemic approaches that appear to sideline people.
This entire topic is up for a necessary debate from many different perspectives.