innovations in washing

October 24, 2006
by djdunc
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I thought this was urban myth but maybe not, anyway, good story from our current chairman… Haier, China’s largest white goods manufacturer prides itself on after-sales service. A high number of washing machine faults started being flagged by their maintenance staff and when they took the machines apart found vegetables

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we think – draft book for comment

October 10, 2006
by djdunc
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Charles Leadbeater was a speaker at our first Hotel of the Future conference back in 2002. He gave an excellent insight into luxury. His latest project is We-think – an exploration of and experiment in collaborative creativity. His book, We-think, is due out next year but his publishers have agreed

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ICT in FP7 – opportunities for UK

October 6, 2006
by djdunc
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Notes from FP6 UK Information Society Technologies meeting at DTI conference centre 06.10.06 to launch the the ICT component of FP7 to UK audience. The 7 themes for ICT in FP7 Introduced main features and proposed priorities for 2007-08. First ICT call in Jan/Feb 2007. Seven *challenges* are proposed each

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Bop presentation to John Prescott

October 3, 2006
by djdunc
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just presented Bop to John Prescott – when i spoke about the reasons why we were doing it the analogy he made was to do with military strategy in the American civil war – apparantly the red coats lost a few battles due to the heat and their inability to

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