On our building tour, we have a strange looking block of metal. It’s aluminum but with an interesting texture to its surface. I like to make a show of lifting the block with difficulty and handing it to someone I’m...

The last day and a half of the conference has been filled with both inspiration and recommendations for addressing the challenge of innovating in a large organization. One popular recommendation is embracing start-ups, as start-ups are often seen as a...

My first day and a half has been filled with discussion around how large companies facilitate innovation within their organizations through enablers, such as, innovation teams, innovation outposts, and university partnerships, to name a few. While these efforts to make...

The Front End of Innovation conference is just around the corner, and Nick Higbee (Director of User Research and Industrial Design) and Melissa Kurtz (Director of Advanced Testing and Material Science) are gearing up to represent the bb7 team. We’ve...

I had the coolest job in the world for a while. I helped assemble the International Space Station from one of the consoles in Mission Control as a senior member of the ISS electrical power flight controller team. A lot...