Feb 11, 2022 | Insights
When we say idea adoption, what exactly do we mean? In theory, idea adoption is the practice of sharing intentional stories among members of a group over time so that more advantageous ideas are accepted and desired behavior changes follow. In practice, we use...
Aug 25, 2021 | Insights
Innovators are brilliant and brave – obsessed with new ideas and possessed with capabilities to take the risks to apply them. However, they often find spreading new ideas is not as easy as sharing the gift of insight and finding others will naturally follow....
Apr 20, 2021 | Insights
Clash of Trades premieres April 20th at 7 p.m. CDT on YouTube Tune in to watch as four student teams from across the country compete in one advanced manufacturing challenge to see who welds, programs and machines their way to the title of Project MFG National...
Feb 8, 2021 | Insights
Idea adoption is the practice of sharing intentional stories among members of a group over a period of time, so that more advantageous ideas are accepted – and desired behavior changes follow. Idea adoption is an individual action and happens internally. When...
Feb 3, 2021 | Insights
When an organization sets out to plan an event or large-scale meeting, it’s tempting to jump right into the logistics – who, what, when, where. A high-caliber event includes a lot of those variables and many hours are spent organizing the details. However, if a...
Jan 27, 2021 | Insights
As the American philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey observed a century ago, “Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites…formulating beliefs in terms of either-ors between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities”. This human tendency...
