Watch the new dMASS video, “Value Matters: Innovation Has Direction” today! dMASS.net’s “Value Matters: Innovation Has Direction,” is a short, animated video revealing the direction of innovation and what it means for businesses and for sustainable design. The video offers a simple method for companies to align business and environmental goals. It challenges business leaders [...]
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What’s New Welcome back, dMASS readers. This week, we explore jugaad, a concept that might be new to you, but one that has a long history. We also offer our weekly Take Home exercise to help you flex your creative muscles and share more than a dozen examples of dMASS thinking (actually, unlucky number 13 [...]
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What’s New You definitely want to check out Howard’s latest post, “Quality and Environmental Management: Converging with good business,” if you haven’t already. Focusing on business and sustainability, Howard talks about the evolution of quality management, the integration of environmental management, and what’s next. In the newsletter this week, we’re exploring consumer products and considering [...]
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dMASS is not about austerity or self-denial. It is about harvesting the most useful benefits from the least resources…Leadership in business is delivering more benefits to customers with fewer tons of resources. The vet recently told me my dog is “gravitationally challenged.” I was mortified. While mass and weight are not technically the same thing, [...]
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In a world where success is measured in terms of concrete things, how do we value that which is invisible? More often than not, we convert the invisible to tangible anchor points that we can visualize. We associate quantities of electricity with the size of a light bulb, bits of information with hard drives, and [...]
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Faced with uncertainty, companies are generating profits by using the one unlimited resource we have: human mind power Profitable businesses undergo an endless, iterative process of minimizing operating costs while maximizing revenues. Conceptually, the equation is simple: lower operating costs + stable or increased revenues = increased profits. However, in the past few years, uncertainty [...]
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