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 4 February 2025
Todays prompts are innovation, IoT, neurons mimicking human perception, plasters, mimicking photosynthesis, natural capital, quantum sensors, printable molecule-selective nanoparticles and the museum of failure.
Stop Asking For Innovation If You’re Not Making Room For It At Work
Protect thinking time, normalize questions and challenges, redefine failure as learning and encourage cross-functional collaboration.
IoT Technology: Emerging Trends Impacting Industry And Consumers
Emotion-aware devices, AI-driven analytics, less connected, the new continuum of computing, more personalized, more precise, self-healing, real-time decision-making, smart, predictive, IIoT, 5G, edge, biometrics, mini LLMs, cyber security, interoperability, green, and space.
Scientists Develop Artificial Neurons That Mimic Human Perception
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-develop-artificial-neurons-that-mimic-human-perception/
High-performance organic electrochemical neuron that operates within the frequency range of human neurons. They also created a complete perception system by designing additional organic materials and integrating their engineered neurons with artificial touch receptors and synapses, enabling real-time tactile signal sensing and processing.
Just add water: The $1 bandage that could revolutionize wound healing
https://studyfinds.org/bandage-chronic-wound-healing/
A new water-activated bandage generates healing electrical fields without any electronics, costing just $1 to produce compared to current treatments that can cost up to $20,000
Copper flowers with solar leaves mimic photosynthesis to turn sunlight into fuel
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/copper-flowers-with-solar-leaves
Their approach combines a highly efficient solar cell made from a material known as perovskite with tiny copper catalysts dubbed “nano-flowers.”
Ten tests for nature strategy
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/sustainability/our-insights/ten-tests-for-nature-strategy
Companies that develop and implement effective management strategies for natural capital can secure lasting advantages through both enhanced resilience and access to nature-related opportunities. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/criminal-or-zeronaut/
New ‘Quantum Sensors’ Could Make America’s Billion-Dollar Submarines Obsolete
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a63382376/quantum-sensors-submarines/
This solution could not only help submarines sense where they are without risking exposure, but also elevate a tactical advantage in anti-submarine warfare and intelligence-gathering.
Printable Molecule-Selective Nanoparticles Enable Mass Production of Wearable Biosensors
Engineers has developed a technique for inkjet printing arrays of special nanoparticles that enables the mass production of long-lasting wearable sweat sensors.
6 Lessons for Startups from a Museum Dedicated to Failure
https://hbr.org/2025/01/6-lessons-for-startups-from-a-museum-dedicated-to-failure
Numerous factors can kill a company or product. To understand more about risk-taking and failure, they collected and cataloged artifacts from more than 1,000 failed products and businesses.