ThinkBox Consulting

24/07/2021

The abridged story of Monsters, Inc and what you can learn from it

This is the abridged story of Monsters, Inc. I've got an idea, lets make a movie about a 30-year-old man dealing with monsters coming back to bother him as an adult.

13/07/2021

Diversity = better decisions

The other day at our team meeting we discussed this article about diversity, and unsurprisingly the data from Harvard shows that the more diversity in the team, the better the decisions they make. So there you have it, if you want to make better, more profitable, strategically advantageous decisions

03/06/2021

Some thoughts about purpose.

I can tell you that working for a purpose drive organisation trumps working for those organisations where the moral compass points in a different direction. I know, I have worked in both across a few industries.

13/05/2021

What your team and heritage restoration have in common

Anyone who has a spent few hours watching Grand Designs with Kevin McCloud or any other UK based restoration show would have undoubtedly come across the influence of the heritage preservation boards has over owner builders trying to turn ruins into their dream homes. More often than not the preserva

17/12/2019

is a dirty word

I did my MBA back in the early 2000’s. This was not so long after the world wide web become popular; when I did my undergrad (psychology) pre 2000’s the concept of an online education was unthought of.

22/11/2019

02/04/2019

This year, solar energy broke records all over Europe. Across the region -- and the world -- we’re seeing lower prices and larger solar farms than ever before. Tesla’s efforts to drive down the cost of photovoltaics and battery storage put the company at the forefront of the solar energy evolution.

Tesla has met with the Greek government to propose ways to modernize the electric grid of the country’s many islands in the Mediterranean sea with microgrids and renewable energy to reduce th…

01/04/2019

3D printing has seen impressive adoption rates across manufacturing, but with slow printing speeds, it has yet to hit the big ranks. By selectively hardening photoreactive resin and thereby enabling a continuous print job, however, this method offers both a speed upgrade and major advances in structural integrity over filament 3D printing.

Researchers at the University of Michigan have invented a new method of 3D printing which is up to 100 times faster than conventional existing 3D-printing processes. Here's how it works, and why it could prove a game-changer for the way that 3D printing is currently used.

30/03/2019

Bioengineers are using 3D printers and regenerative medicine to completely transform how we rehabilitate, cure and repair the human body. Current applications include replacing bones, augmenting dentistry, custom-fitting prosthetics, replacing organs and repairing nerves.

A new study shows that 3D-printing a section of spinal cord, living cells and all, restored movement in injured rats.

29/03/2019

As we grow increasingly reliant on AI systems to make decisions for us and automate our lives, it’s critical that we begin to understand how these algorithms work.

Generative adversarial networks are not just good for causing mischief. They can also show us how AI algorithms “think.”

28/03/2019

We're seeing an unprecedented rise in robot-human collaboration all across the manufacturing and supply chain industries. Robots are often large, heavy, mobile and dangerous pieces of machinery.

Over the course of the last year, Amazon began rolling out a new worker safety wearable to 25+ sites. From the looks of it, the Robotic Tech Vest is really more like a pair of suspenders attached to an electronic utility belt. The Amazon Robotics-designed product was created to keep workers safe wh....

27/03/2019

“Every single organ in our body is linked with the circulatory system. This could potentially allow researchers to unravel the causes and treatments for a variety of vascular diseases, from Alzheimer’s disease, cardiovascular diseases, wound healing problems, stroke, cancer and, of course, diabetes.”

They've already yielded a new lead in the hunt for better diabetes treatments.