Crowds are now being tapped to develop mobile applications before they reach consumers.
Venturi was tapped to develop this electric snowcat after Prince Albert II, the reigning monarch of Monaco and a noted environmental advocate, returned from a trip to Antarctica in 2009.
Lansing Manufacturing was tapped to develop the drive units while Hilliard worked to improve the electronic components.
Their expertise could also be tapped to help develop a "cybersecurity infrastructure bank" – a bank that would loan government funds to small utilities, water plants and the like to help them quickly upgrade their cyber defenses.
The panel had fewer questions for Majumdar, a mechanical engineer from academia who led the energy efficiency innovation program at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before being tapped to help DOE develop the technologies needed to move the nation toward a low-carbon economy.
By 1995, Lo had done so well at Hewlett-Packard that he was tapped to lead HP's efforts to develop a Unix servers business in Japan that would rival those of IBM and Sun Microsystems.
Lloyd O'Connor, who had developed Web-based technologies while working at Chase Manhattan, was tapped to be chief executive in 1998.
Hansen and his co-authors find that: "Estimates of the carbon content of all fossil fuel reservoirs including unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands, tar shale, and various gas reservoirs that can be tapped with developing technology imply that CO2 conceivably could reach a level as high as 16 times the 1950 atmospheric amount".
This profound knowledge must be tapped for developing a roadmap for sustainable Lean implementation.
Nuance has also been tapped by Samsung to develop the voice recognition features on the Korean firm's line of smartwatches, and the company considers wearable computers a key growth area for its future.
