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Examples: How People are Doing More with Existing Resources

Cola Life is an example of how to create opportunity.

THIS space COULD save lives

2020-08-03
By: scottburnham
On: August 3, 2020
In: Examples: How People are Doing More with Existing Resources, From the Book

Even the most daunting and seemingly closed systems can provide opportunity to save lives. Continue Reading

Farmer's Phone System - a barbed wire phone network

THIS fence COULD be a phone network

2020-08-03
By: scottburnham
On: August 3, 2020
In: Examples: How People are Doing More with Existing Resources, From the Book

The “Farmer’s Phone System” was the result of someone looking at a fence and thinking “This Could…” do more. A barbed wire phone network was the result. When telephones were first introduced in the early 1900s, phone companies were only interested in building networks in cities. Rural settlements were tooContinue Reading

original frisbee

THIS pie plate COULD be a lot of fun

2020-08-03
By: scottburnham
On: August 3, 2020
In: Alternate Use, Examples: How People are Doing More with Existing Resources, From the Book

The origin of the Frisbee is one of the most powerful examples of professionals failing to see additional opportunity in a product – and kids instinctively doing so. In the early 1900s, the Frisbie Pie Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut was doing brisk business selling their pies from trucks that wouldContinue Reading

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Scott Burnham has three decades of global experience providing companies, cities, and individuals with strategies and tools needed to respond to limited resources with an abundance of creativity.

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THIS space COULD save lives

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