Mind candy are prompts to help you to keep up to date, develop strategic responses to trends and train your change muscle, making you more resilient and agile for the future. If you need help with developing these prompts, you can book a free appointment here. If you want me to speak at your event, contact me at ron@ronimmink.com
How to use the prompts
Become a trend watcher yourself. Use these prompts to explore their relevance, assess opportunities and threats, and analyse timelines and impacts on your organisation. Consider multiple possible futures across varying time horizons—1, 3, 5, and 10 years.
Scenario prompts 5 February 2025
Todays prompts are genomic structures, innovation, nanoflower bandages, magnetic sensing, architecture, AI designing chips (that we do not understand), the CEO as elite athlete, nano pesticides, and artificial gills.
Are you an athlete CEO?
With generative AI, MIT chemists quickly calculate 3D genomic structures
From sequence to structure. A new approach, which takes minutes rather than days, predicts how a specific DNA sequence will arrange itself in the cell nucleus.
Building a Sustainable Business Innovation Capability
https://prophet.com/2025/01/building-a-sustainable-business-innovation-capability/
Half of CEOs rank new business building as a top three priority, and in the current economic environment, incumbents are advantaged over startups with relatively easy access to capital. While they are advantaged financially, they are often disadvantaged by their operating model.
This Delicate Nanoflower Is Downright Deadly To Bacteria
https://scienceblog.com/this-delicate-nanoflower-is-downright-deadly-to-bacteria/
Nanoflower bandages are promising candidates for treating infections and inflammatory conditions.
Magnetic Sense in Animals Could Be Shockingly Close to Quantum Limits
https://www.sciencealert.com/magnetic-sense-in-animals-could-be-shockingly-close-to-quantum-limits
Physicists have now discovered two types of sensors in animals that can detect magnetic fields close to the quantum limit, information that could improve our own design of magnetometer devices.
The architecture industry may soon be unrecognizable
https://www.fastcompany.com/91268721/the-architecture-industry-may-soon-be-unrecognizable
As is the case with any radical and fast-moving change, this is both deeply exciting and absolutely terrifying at the same time.
AI Designed Computer Chips That the Human Mind Can’t Understand
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a63606123/ai-designed-computer-chips/
A new neural network process has designed wireless chips that can outperform existing ones.
The CEO as elite athlete: What business leaders can learn from modern sports
Read https://www.ronimmink.com/entrepreneurs-as-top-athletes/
Breakthrough in Nanopesticides Boosts Sustainable Farming
Researchers have advanced nanopesticide technology, introducing a pesticide delivery system that could transform crop protection practice
Deep-sea robot’s artificial gills unlock endless swimming power with seawater oxygen
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/robot-unlock-endless-swimming-power-with-oxygen
The system uses a PEM fuel cell, with hydrogen stored in metal hydride and oxygen extracted from seawater to generate electricity.