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What if the next breakthrough product does not come from having more resources, but from being forced to do more with less?In this episode of The Good Leadership Podcast, Charles Good speaks with Dr. Amos Winter, MIT professor and co-author of Global by Design: How to Create Innovations that Scale, Travel, and Transform, about why some of the world's most important innovations are emerging from markets defined by scarcity, infrastructure limitations, and intense price pressure.Using examples including the extraordinary global success of the Honda Super Cub, the conversation explores how leaders can identify problems worth solving, understand the people and systems surrounding those problems, and avoid the common mistake of designing something that works beautifully in the lab but fails in the real world.In this episode, you'll learn:• Why emerging markets can become laboratories for global innovation• What the Honda Super Cub teaches us about designing products that travel• How the Three Merits help leaders decide which innovation problems deserve investment• Why price-performance fit matters more than simply maximizing performance• How perspective and stakeholder understanding change design decisions• Where AI falls short when physical, cultural, and contextual knowledge matters• How leaders can balance commercial opportunity with humanitarian impact• The first step executives can take to build Global by Design capability inside their organizationsGlobal by Design is now available at retailers worldwide!Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1647820758?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallbackDr. Amos Winter is the Germeshausen Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center at MIT. His research focuses on using mechanical design and product design to create high-performance, low-cost technologies for resource-constrained communities around the world. His consultancy is Winter Works Consulting (https://winterworksconsulting.com/)The co-author of this book, Dr. Vijay Govindarajan, writes a Weekly Column on innovation on LinkedIn, where he continues to write about new developments in Global by Design. Please FOLLOW VG on LinkedIn to get updates on his work on innovation: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vg-govindarajan/recent-activity/all/⁠CHAPTERS00:00 Introduction to global innovation and constraints00:29 Amos Winter's background and book overview02:19 What does “Global by Design” mean?03:19 Starting with constraints to create global relevance04:22 Why emerging markets are engines of innovation06:17 Case study: Honda Super Cub's global success09:21 Market shifts making resource-constrained design relevant12:32 The rise of AI and its limitations in global innovation18:23 The Three Merits for choosing innovation problems25:08 Design factors for global products28:39 Understanding stakeholder perspectives and ignorance29:58 When lab performance meets real-world constraints35:57 Balancing commercial and humanitarian goals39:26 First steps for leaders to adopt Global by DesignSubscribe to The Good Leadership Podcast: [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠] | [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠] | [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠]LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linkedin.com/in/charlesagood⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack Channel (Outlearn to Outperform): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠charlesgood.substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn Newsletter (The Outlearn Advantage): [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Institute for Management Studies

Amos Winter, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research Center at MIT, explains how innovators can create high-performance, affordable products for resource-constrained communities and adapt them for global markets. Drawing on Global by Design, co-authored with Vijay Govindarajan, he brings together product design, engineering science, market knowledge, and business strategy. Amos traces this work to a study of wheelchair use in Tanzania. People in rural areas needed a wheelchair that could travel long distances over rough terrain while remaining compact enough for indoor use. Products developed for wealthier countries were often too expensive or insufficiently robust. The resulting Leveraged Freedom Chair later provided the foundation for the Grit Freedom Chair in the United States. The conversation examines three forms of merit that help innovators choose worthwhile problems. Problem merit asks whether solving a challenge would meaningfully benefit a substantial population and support a business opportunity. Innovation merit determines whether the problem genuinely requires innovation rather than adaptation, charity, or another mechanism. Value merit aligns the interests of customers and producers so that adoption can occur at scale. This evaluation should precede the technology. Amos cautions against "creating a hammer and then going and finding a nail." A stronger approach begins by identifying the full set of requirements, then combining market insight with technical analysis. Market knowledge reveals what users and operating environments demand; engineering science explains the limitations of existing products and suggests how a better solution might work. The Leveraged Freedom Chair illustrates how this approach supports expansion across markets. In developing countries, bicycle parts made the chair affordable and locally repairable. American users valued the same lever-powered drivetrain but needed a collapsible frame that could fit inside a car. The core value remained consistent, while selected features changed with local requirements. Amos contrasts the Honda Super Cub with the Tata Nano to show why excellent engineering does not guarantee adoption. Honda combined low cost and reliability with an accessible, aspirational identity. The Nano was an impressive engineering achievement, but positioning it as the world's cheapest car weakened its appeal. Concerns about status and perceived safety further influenced how customers judged it. The discussion also considers AI's role in product development. Amos uses AI to gather and summarize information, generate concepts, write code, and accelerate routine work. Its limitations become more significant when innovation depends on knowledge that has never been recorded, direct interaction with materials and manufacturing processes, an understanding of technical readiness, or rapport with stakeholders. He expects people to remain particularly valuable in work requiring dexterity, perception, ingenuity, interdisciplinary synthesis, and interpersonal understanding. Amos closes with a principle central to the book: "Perspective is the most powerful tool an innovator has because what it does is show you requirements." Innovators must learn to see a problem through other people's eyes while remaining realistic about their own knowledge, capabilities, and resources. He calls this being a "tempered dreamer": pursuing consequential problems with ambition, but applying one's strengths where they can contribute most effectively. Get Amos' book, Global by Design, here: https://tinyurl.com/5asv27jv Claim your free gift: Free gift #1 McKinsey & BCG winning resume www.FIRMSconsulting.com/resumePDF Free gift #2 Breakthrough Decisions Guide with 25 AI Prompts www.FIRMSconsulting.com/decisions Free gift #3 Five Reasons Why People Ignore Somebody www.FIRMSconsulting.com/owntheroom Free gift #4 Access episode 1 from Build a Consulting Firm, Level 1 www.FIRMSconsulting.com/build Free gift #5 The Overall Approach used in well-managed strategy studies www.FIRMSconsulting.com/OverallApproach Free gift #6 Get a copy of Nine Leaders in Action, a book we co-authored with some of our clients: www.FIRMSconsulting.com/gift

In Global by Design: How to Create Innovations That Scale, Travel, and Transform, Vijay Govindarajan argues that the most powerful innovations are designed from the ground up for emerging markets like rural China or India, and then travel back to disrupt wealthy ones. Govindarajan is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business and one of the world's foremost experts on strategy and innovation, most known for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Reverse Innovation. In his new book, co-authored with MIT engineer Amos Winter, he fuses business strategy with engineering science to show how high-value, low-cost products built for poorer countries can win there first and then upend established markets abroad, offering a roadmap for innovators across engineering, business, NGOs, and government. In his conversation with Nikolaus Lang, global leader of the BCG Henderson Institute, he discusses how GE built a $15,000 ultrasound machine for rural China; why most multinationals chase only the thin top slice of emerging markets; the three phases of his innovation framework; the difference between serial and parallel reverse innovation; and why globalization behaves like gravity even in a fragmented, multipolar world. Key topics discussed: 03:29 | How reverse innovation works: GE's ultrasound machine for rural China 06:39 | Why most multinationals aren't global by design 08:01 | The mistake of serving only the thin top slice of emerging markets 10:00 | Phase 1, elucidating requirements: P&G's 3,000 hours redesigning a razor 13:00 | Phase 2, closing the innovation gap: GE's low-cost CAT scanner 16:48 | Phase 3, serial vs. parallel reverse innovation 20:20 | Value-driven innovation, the Segway cautionary tale, and where the biggest opportunities lie 24:14 | Global by design in a geopolitically fragmented world Additional inspirations from Vijay Govindarajan: Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012) LinkedIn: Three Box Solution Weekly Column

Vijay Govindarajan, Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and co-author of Global by Design, explains how innovations developed for emerging markets can also serve wealthier countries. Building on his earlier work on reverse innovation, he argues that successful innovation requires business strategy and engineering science to be considered together. Vijay places this work within his Three Box Solution, a framework for improving the efficiency of the core business while simultaneously creating new businesses. The central challenge is developing the capabilities to manage efficiency and exploration at the same time. He describes effective innovators as "tempered dreamers." They think ambitiously without becoming detached from what is possible. This requires leaders to understand their current capabilities, determine which capabilities they can acquire, and remain humble enough to learn from others. Innovation should begin with a clear understanding of the customer's problem, independent of any proposed solution. Customers may not be able to articulate what they need, so Vijay recommends ethnographic research, direct observation, and immersion in their lives. Once the problem is understood, teams should divide the solution into components, test the most critical part first, learn, adjust, and proceed. His advice is to run innovation "as a marathon race, as a series of 400 meters," with each stage creating an opportunity to test and pivot. The conversation also addresses AI and the distinction between intelligence and judgment. AI can process extensive data and generate many options, but people must decide which option to pursue, persuade colleagues, and navigate organizational realities. As Vijay says, "AI doesn't substitute thinking. AI doesn't substitute judgment." It should be used to "augment human creativity," not replace independent reasoning. To prevent "cognitive surrender," Vijay asks students to analyze a case independently before consulting AI, compare their reasoning with its response, and refine their conclusions. He reports that this approach has improved the quality of their judgment, while requiring him to reconsider both what he teaches and how he teaches it. Vijay closes by explaining how his collaboration with MIT engineering professor Amos Winter strengthened Global by Design. Their different perspectives produced disagreements, but those disagreements led to a better book because they were examined with rigor and mutual respect. The broader lesson is that complex innovation benefits from multiple disciplines and perspectives, including those of customers, manufacturers, engineers, scientists, and business leaders. Get Vijay's book, Global by Design, here: https://tinyurl.com/5asv27jv Claim your free gift: Free gift #1 McKinsey & BCG winning resume www.FIRMSconsulting.com/resumePDF Free gift #2 Breakthrough Decisions Guide with 25 AI Prompts www.FIRMSconsulting.com/decisions Free gift #3 Five Reasons Why People Ignore Somebody www.FIRMSconsulting.com/owntheroom Free gift #4 Access episode 1 from Build a Consulting Firm, Level 1 www.FIRMSconsulting.com/build Free gift #5 The Overall Approach used in well-managed strategy studies www.FIRMSconsulting.com/OverallApproach Free gift #6 Get a copy of Nine Leaders in Action, a book we co-authored with some of our clients: www.FIRMSconsulting.com/gift

In Episode 448 of DisrupTV, host R "Ray" Wang brings together three thinkers whose work sits at the intersection of AI, leadership, governance, and global innovation — and who all arrive, from very different directions, at the same essential insight: the real competitive advantage in the AI era is not access to the technology. It is what you do with it. Frank Castora, CEO of Ollion, makes the case that execution is becoming cheap and differentiation is becoming expensive — and that differentiation comes from human judgment. He explains how to decide which parts of a workflow to automate, augment, or keep fully human, why AI pushes solutions toward the median and how to engineer against that, and why the premium in services will always belong to the human judgment layered on top of the model, not the model itself. He also introduces a simple but powerful rule: if failure requires an apology, a human must be in the loop. Janet Wong, an experienced public-company board director and audit chair, explains why AI is now a full-board responsibility and what that actually looks like in practice. She covers how governance responsibilities are distributed across committees, what minimum guardrails leading companies are putting in place ahead of formal regulation, and why boards need AI steering committees, incident response plans, and cost visibility dashboards — not someday, but now. Amos Winter, MIT professor and author of Global by Design, shifts the lens to physical innovation and emerging markets. He argues that the biggest growth opportunities — and some of the most urgent problems — sit in resource-constrained contexts, and that designing for them requires perspective above all else. Through the lens of the Honda Super Cub, his lab's work on low-power irrigation emitters, and a three-part framework for evaluating innovation opportunities, he makes the case for innovations that are rigorously engineered for real constraints and that travel globally because of that rigor, not despite it. Whether you lead a company, sit on a board, or build products for the world, this episode offers a clear-eyed playbook for deploying AI wisely, governing it responsibly, and designing for the markets that matter most.

Companies often build products for wealthy markets first and then try to adapt them for the rest of the world. But according to Dartmouth Tuck professor Vijay Govindarajan and MIT professor Amos Winter, designing for the toughest constraints first—whether that's affordability, portability, or limited infrastructure—can lead to products that perform better everywhere. They explain how leaders can identify high-impact opportunities, uncover customer needs through deep field research, and design solutions that balance performance with cost. They also discuss why organizational mindset—not technology—is often the biggest obstacle to global innovation, and where AI can (and can't) accelerate the design process. Together they wrote the book Global by Design: How to Create Innovations That Scale, Travel, and Transform.

Kelly sits down with Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His new book is called “Global by Design: How to Create Innovations That Scale, Travel and Transform.” “Become a tempered dreamer.”  “Technology is not the […]

Chicago is set to break ground on a pipeline that will bring water from the Great Lakes to some suburbs whose groundwater is running dry. Joliet, Illinois, is one of those suburbs. Here & Now's Chris Bentley reports on the question of who is allowed to use Lake Michigan's water. And, as cities across the West brace for a drier future, they're investing in advanced water purification technology. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd reports on scientists who are turning wastewater into drinking water. Then, desalination — pulling fresh, drinkable water from saltwater— can offer some relief in areas facing water shortages. Robert Bergstrom, CEO of OceanWell, explains how the company's desalination pods work. And mechanical engineer Amos Winter details how his team uses an electrodialysis system to purify groundwater.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders talks about his Fighting Oligarchy Tour and explains where the political battle lines are right now on hot-button cultural issues, health care and more. And, the Food and Drug Administration is responsible for ensuring a safe food supply. But cuts to the FDA have called into question the agency's ability to maintain that standard. NBC News' Suzy Khimm shares what the impact could be. Then, climate change is impacting water supplies around the world. But desalination — pulling fresh, drinkable water from saltwater— can offer some relief. OceanWell CEO Robert Bergstrom and MIT mechanical engineer Amos Winter join us to share more on their work with desalination.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Seth likes Jaaaaags, Scott wonders what's in carbs, and Amos is definitely the smartest guy in the room. Amos Winter joins us to talk about engineering challenges, not being killed by kangaroos, new versus valuable, and his love of analog cars and turning wrenches. Amos' Instagram Amos' Youtube MIT Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center ------ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Robertson-Racing.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Track Walking Chats - Group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Track Walking - Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Track Walking - Instagram⁠

New research suggests the planet has already exceeded 1.5 degrees of warming, the threshold parties to the 2015 Paris Accord agreed not to pass. The scientists in the study examined centuries-old sea sponges, finding growth records that document changes in water temperature, acidity and carbon dioxide levels in the air. The research calculated that we may have already hit 1.7 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Indiana State University paleo oceanographer and co-author of the study Amos Winter spoke to Corin Dann.

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BOOM BOOM BOOM! We are releasing our third episode in the mobility, accessibility, and design series! We met with Amos Winter, a professor at MIT who taught us a lot about how he uses design in his research, and does need-finding “on the ground”, traveling all over the world to talk to users and learn their stories first-hand. Follow Amos! Website: gear.mit.edu Twitter: @amoswinter TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/amos_winter_the_cheap_all_terrain_wheelchair?language=en Follow BOOM! Twitter: @biomechanicsOOM Instagram: @biomechanicsonourminds Facebook: @biomechanicsonourminds

BOOM BOOM BOOM! We are releasing our third episode in the mobility, accessibility, and design series! We met with Amos Winter, a professor at MIT who taught us a lot about how he uses design in his research, and does need-finding “on the ground”, traveling all over the world to talk to users and learn their stories first-hand. Follow Amos! Website: gear.mit.edu Twitter: @amoswinter TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/amos_winter_the_cheap_all_terrain_wheelchair?language=en Follow BOOM! Twitter: @biomechanicsOOM Instagram: @biomechanicsonourminds Facebook: @biomechanicsonourminds

Sometimes, the best solutions to complex problems are simple. But simple doesn't always mean easy. This hour, TED speakers describe the innovation and hard work that goes into achieving simplicity. Guests include designer Mileha Soneji, chef Sam Kass, sleep researcher Wendy Troxel, public health advocate Myriam Sidibe, and engineer Amos Winter.Commercial free broadcast from July 20, 2019 (originally recorded November 17, 2017) on the Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network, online at heartlandnewsfeed.com, Spreaker and other platforms.Listen Live: https://www.heartlandnewsfeed.com/listenliveFollow us on social mediaFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/hlnfradionetworkTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/HLNF_BulletinInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/heartlandnewsfeedMastadon: https://liberdon.com/@heartlandnewsfeedDiscord: https://discord.gg/6b6u6DTSupport us with your financial supportStreamlabs: https://streamlabs.com/heartlandmediaPayPal: https://www.paypal.me/heartlandmediaSquare Cash: https://cash.app/$heartlandnewsfeedPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/heartlandnewsfeedCrypto via 1UpCoin: https://1upcoin.com/donate/heartlandmedia

Original broadcast date: November 17, 2017. Sometimes, the best solutions to complex problems are simple. But simple doesn't always mean easy. This hour, TED speakers describe the innovation and hard work that goes into achieving simplicity. Guests include designer Mileha Soneji, chef Sam Kass, sleep researcher Wendy Troxel, public health advocate Myriam Sidibe, and engineer Amos Winter.

Sometimes, the best solutions to complex problems are simple. But simple doesn't always mean easy. This hour, TED speakers describe the innovation and hard work that goes into achieving simplicity. Guests include designer Mileha Soneji, chef Sam Kass, sleep researcher Wendy Troxel, public health advocate Myriam Sidibe, and engineer Amos Winter.

This is a great chat with Amos Winter, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.