An in-depth Q&A with Dr McLean Sibanda at MIC 2021
By Farah Khalfe
Share At the 2021 Fast Company s Most Innovative Companies Summit & Awards, we chatted to Dr. McLean Sibanda, former CEO of the Innovation Hub, about his role in driving innovation in Gauteng townships based on his book, Nuts & Bolts.
Fast Company SA Editor-in-Chief, Wesley Diphoko gains exclusive insight into the state of innovation in Gauteng, challenges to innovation in South Africa and Dr. Sibanda’s role and plans for the future.
Watch the full Q&A below:
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Human-centered design has generally been understood to mean putting yourself in the shoes of users and building a product that recognizes their needs.
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But as panelists Vivianne Castillo founder of the UX community HmntyCntrd, Thang Vo-Ta, cofounder and CEO of Callaly, and Ivy Ross, vice president and head of hardware design at Google, explained during a panel at
Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies Summit today, human-centered design really starts in the workplace. “If you aren’t human-centric in the workplace, that’s 100% going to impact [employees’] ability to understand what it means to be human-centered in design and the experiences that we’re creating,” Castillo says.
Honeywell Named to Fast Company s Annual List of the World s Most Innovative Companies for 2021
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Company s prestigious annual list of the World s Most Innovative Companies (MIC) for 2021, ranking among the top five companies in the Enterprise category. Honeywell was chosen for its breakthroughs in quantum computing and for rapidly developing new products to help customers address the effects of the global pandemic.
Honeywell was one of 463 companies from 29 countries to be included on the list, which honors the businesses that have not only found a way to be resilient in the past year, but also turned those challenges into impact-making processes.