At FirstBuild’s headquarters there’s a sign reminding all who do work at the appliance-development factory that “A prototype is worth a thousand meetings.”
It’s an operating tenet for FirstBuild and other companies trying to change the way new products are created by liberating the process from the confines of slow-moving, bureaucratic research-and-development departments.
Image: At FirstBuild, amateur inventors, engineers and others design products that could become part of the GE appliance line. PHOTO: HUNTER WILSON
