Author - Pete Cionitti

The Innovation Sprout of Ingenius

Living Innovation

“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.” -E.E. Cummings No.   No is a powerful word; Maybe one of the most powerful.  Yes, on the other hand, is permissive with unpredictable results and often entails risk.   When an idea, or thought or glimmer of a thought is met with “No”, from those with the authority to stop any progress, innovation is killed.  Never has an idea that died become a tangible reality.  Innovation is like life, it must be [...]

Therafin Innovation's Homemade Pasta Design Process

Homemade Pasta: Therafin Innovation’s Design Process

We love pasta. We love to design things, and I love metaphors.   But pasta as a metaphor for the design process and innovation??  Common is the phrase about throwing spaghetti against the wall to see if it’s done and thus sticks; so maybe the metaphor is germane.   A design process, like spaghetti, ultimately must determine if the design is done and indeed if it “sticks”.   So on goes a kettle of water and we’ll start cooking. At Therafin we follow [...]