Today’s Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterized by the unavoidable interaction between humans, physical assets and digital technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and quantum computing. It is disrupting business in almost every industry on a global scale and creates an increasingly fast-paced and complex environment, requiring organizations to be better equipped to adapt what …
Long before PlayStations and iPads, board games were the common form of multi-player entertainment. I’ve recently had the opportunity to play the board game Risk with my good friend Jeroen and his four young boys. Risk is a map-based strategy board game in which each player receives a handful of soldiers, a set of dice, …
In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician who discovered that if physicians washed their hands, the incidence of Peurperal Fever infections (also known as Childbirth Fever, an often fatal infection which was common in the 19th Century) was drastically reduced. He was working in the Vienna General Hospital in the Obstetrical Clinic. From Wikipedia: …