If you want to become more anticipatory, buy yourself the time to respond, develop your change muscle, and increase the quality of your strategy development, here are the scenario prompts for 21 April 2023. Scenario prompts are the first step of strategy development. If you want to improve your strategic abilities, go here.
Techniques to identify trends, platform risk, mushrooms, AI trends, circular cities, smart bandages, psychedelics, patents, ears as an interface, time-release medication and bioelectronics.
Have a great weekend.
16 Strategies For Leaders To Identify Trends In Their Industry
Back to start up roots, get curious, networks, experiment, digital tools, read daily, co-creation and strategy. Or develop your own scenario prompts. See https://www.ronimmink.com/perception-pioneer/
AI represents a new type of platform risk to startups
https://www.airplane.dev/blog/ai-represents-a-new-type-of-platform-risk-to-startups?
If you’re building on top of APIs from OpenAI or Anthropic, the risk is that improvements to their AI models will naturally wipe out your product’s value add.
Creating clothing with mycelium-based material
https://www.springwise.com/innovation/fashion-beauty/3d-printing-mycelium-based-material/?
Moulding or 3D printing biodegradable materials such as mycelium or algae.
Generative AI landscape: Potential future trends
https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/tip/Generative-AI-landscape-Potential-future-trends
Coding, text, automation, prompts, business modelling, synthetic data, scenario planning, hybrid, niche, personalisation and CX.
These circular cities want to send landfills to the trash bin of history
https://www.corporateknights.com/issues/2023-04-spring-issue/cities-circular-economy/
It’s a global trend; Swiss-based sustainable building materials firm Holcim, which has developed a “Circular Cities Barometer,” counts Delhi, Lagos, Bogotá, Wuhan and Manila among the most circular cities in the world.
Researchers create wound dressing that detects infection
https://nano-magazine.com/news/2023/4/19/researchers-create-wound-dressing-that-detects-infection?
Imagine everything smart.
US could soon approve MDMA therapy — opening an era of psychedelic medicine
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01296-3?
Psychedelics and leadership? Psychedelics and innovation? Psychedelics and ……..?
Tesla looks inward
https://patentdrop.substack.com/p/patent-drop-tesla-looks-inward?
What can you learn from patent applications?
Breakthrough: Smart earpiece can rewire ‘brain’s software’, enabling quick recovery for stroke patients
https://interestingengineering.com/health/smart-earpiece-can-rewire-brains-software?
Ears as an interface. Trend?
Avoiding missed medicines with microparticles
The technology uses 3D printing and a stamping technique to produce over 300 small, non-toxic, biodegradable cylinders that can be injected using a standard hypodermic needle
Scientists Can Now Use Injectable Gels to Grow Electrodes in Your Brain
Here’s how biology creates electronics.
