Apps for positive social impact: From Uber™ to Neighbors™
The rise and fall of Uber illustrates the promise and risks of growing high-tech companies in the so-called gig or shared economy . The...
Reinventing a city: Detroit's comeback thanks to serious management and... immigration!
After losing 800,000 jobs between 2010 and 2014 Detroit's population fell from 2 million to 700,000. Since 2010, however, after filing...
Futurizer: designing a "UniverCity"
A group of universities and institutions around the world -from Argentina, Russia, Netherlands,US, Czechoslovakia, France, Italy and...
Argentina: Refinor, Salta: a social performance story and a 9-year case study
It all started with a "conventional" performance improvement project in the NW corner of Argentina. Refinor, a petrochemical company...
Panama: City Doctors: HPT for the transformation of Colon, Panama
Like people, cities can get sick. They start losing jobs, crime rises, healthcare becomes too expensive and then, people get sick of the...
Mexico: Helping Mexicans stay and succeed in Mexico: the PII Case -
Beyond the bluster and stereotyping of election politics on both side of the Rio Grande, there is a real way to solve both US and Mexico...
