Workshop 2: Koen, Jos & Josh
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
Nike Hindsight
Nike Hindsight Gives You Unparalleled Vision
The urban jungle isn’t exactly the safest place for bicyclists. You need the right tools to keep you one step ahead of irresponsible motorists. The Nike Hindsight gives you superhuman like powers with extended peripheral vision so all those sneaky cars, beware.
They work similar to bifocals except for your peripheral vision. By using fresnel lenses on both sides of the glasses, riders can detect motion in a field of view beyond the normal human limit of 180º. If you want to get technical about it; high power, diverging fresnel zones aligned vertically distort into view an extra 25º on both sides. Vision is radically distorted in the periphery, but as the eye detects only motion in that area, little clarity is lost in the process.
A rider’s clear benefit is in the early warning of approaching vehicles, but a less obvious advantage is reducing the necessary head rotation to check behind. Tho it was intended for bicyclists, there’s a myriad of sports and activities where a greater field of view becomes an advantage.
The urban jungle isn’t exactly the safest place for bicyclists. You need the right tools to keep you one step ahead of irresponsible motorists. The Nike Hindsight gives you superhuman like powers with extended peripheral vision so all those sneaky cars, beware.
They work similar to bifocals except for your peripheral vision. By using fresnel lenses on both sides of the glasses, riders can detect motion in a field of view beyond the normal human limit of 180º. If you want to get technical about it; high power, diverging fresnel zones aligned vertically distort into view an extra 25º on both sides. Vision is radically distorted in the periphery, but as the eye detects only motion in that area, little clarity is lost in the process.
A rider’s clear benefit is in the early warning of approaching vehicles, but a less obvious advantage is reducing the necessary head rotation to check behind. Tho it was intended for bicyclists, there’s a myriad of sports and activities where a greater field of view becomes an advantage.
Air-Powered Watches
I was just browsing the internet for some new cool gadgets and look what I found:
Thursday, October 23, 2008
12 tips to motivate your staff
Today I got an email from businesscompleet.nl with 12 tips to motivate your staff.
I would not want you to miss this so I made a little translation.
1 Be clear about your expectations.
2 Create a good surrounding
3 Let employees be part of the company.
4 Give Trust
5 Approach different people in different ways.
6 Give postive feedback.
7 Live up to your promises.
8 Create security.
9 Think of yourself as the rolemodel.
10 Give posibilities for expanding your staffs skills and knowledge.
11 Pay well.
12 Respect and appreciate your employees.
You can read the (dutch) original at:
http://www.businesscompleet.nl/kennisbank/1169-Twaalf-tips-om-uw-personeel-te-motiveren.html
I would not want you to miss this so I made a little translation.
1 Be clear about your expectations.
2 Create a good surrounding
3 Let employees be part of the company.
4 Give Trust
5 Approach different people in different ways.
6 Give postive feedback.
7 Live up to your promises.
8 Create security.
9 Think of yourself as the rolemodel.
10 Give posibilities for expanding your staffs skills and knowledge.
11 Pay well.
12 Respect and appreciate your employees.
You can read the (dutch) original at:
http://www.businesscompleet.nl/kennisbank/1169-Twaalf-tips-om-uw-personeel-te-motiveren.html
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Remember?
Do you remember the video I posted a while ago? Look at that phone model and look with what they are coming with now! Doesn't the phone look similar, wow the phone looks really interesting, so flat and what a features... Well the sad news is that the phone is not real and it's a stunt from this company... let's wait for the first 'real' phone with the three panels. I think the time is coming though...
Monday, October 13, 2008
International TRIZ Conference in Enschede, November 5-7
On November 5-7, at the University of Twente in Enschede, the 8th edition of the international TRIZ Future Conference will be held. TRIZ is a set of methods and techniques to support invention and innovation, and translated as "Theory of Solving Inventive Problems". Today TRIZ is used by Intel, P&G, Samsung, Siemens and others as a scientific approach to invention. For TRIZ newcomers, there is a possibility to register for the first day only which will feature tutorials, keynotes and case studies. It is a great opportunity to get to know more about TRIZ and network with TRIZ enthusiasts and professionals.
More information on the conference is available at http://www.trizfuture.net.
More on TRIZ you can find at http://www.xtriz.com/publications.htm (incl. articles in Dutch).
TRIZ DISCOVERIES:
• 99.7% of inventions use already known solution principle
• Less than 0.3% are really pioneering inventions
• A breakthrough solution is a result of overcoming a
contradiction
• Inventors and strong thinkers use common patterns
• Creative problem solving patterns are universal across
different areas
• Evolution of man-made systems is governed by certain
regularities and trends
• New innovative ideas can be produced in a systematic way
by reusing previous experience and patterns of previous
solutions
More information on the conference is available at http://www.trizfuture.net.
More on TRIZ you can find at http://www.xtriz.com/publications.htm (incl. articles in Dutch).
TRIZ DISCOVERIES:
• 99.7% of inventions use already known solution principle
• Less than 0.3% are really pioneering inventions
• A breakthrough solution is a result of overcoming a
contradiction
• Inventors and strong thinkers use common patterns
• Creative problem solving patterns are universal across
different areas
• Evolution of man-made systems is governed by certain
regularities and trends
• New innovative ideas can be produced in a systematic way
by reusing previous experience and patterns of previous
solutions
GeoEye-1
Google Launches Super-Spycam Into Space; Logo Goes Along for a Ride
Google is getting a new eye in the sky -- and as a bonus, its rainbow-colored logo will be getting a ride on a rocket.
Satellite company GeoEye will launch a new orbiting imager on Thursday, and Google has signed a contract making it the exclusive online mapping site to use the satellite's photos, which will appear in both Google Maps and Google Earth. The search company also got to slap its nearly-ubiquitous logo on the side of the rocket, currently being prepped for launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (The logo will not actually go into space, but instead will fall to Earth with the rocket's first stage.)
The satellite will be able to take photos at a resolution of up to 41 centimeters -- enough to get a pretty decent photo of your Mustang convertible, but not enough identify the redhead in the passenger's seat.
Because of a deal GeoEye has already signed with the U.S. government, Google will only get data with a resolution of 50 centimeters, News.com reports.
A second satellite, GeoEye-2, slated to launch in 2011 or 2012, will have a resolution of 25cm, company representatives promised.
A Google spokeswoman offered the following clarification after an earlier version of this post was published by Wired.com:
Google is interested in collecting the highest quality commercial satellite imagery available and as a symbol of this commitment has agreed to put the company logo on the first stage of the GeoEye, Inc. launch vehicle. Google Maps and Google Earth already include imagery from GeoEye. Google does not have any direct or indirect financial interest in the satellite or in GeoEye, and did not pay any fee to place its logo on the launch vehicle.
Google phone
In New York in September, Google and T-Mobile will unveil the long-awaited Google Phone. The device, made by the Taiwanese cell-phone company HTC, is expected to have a large touch screen, a QWERTY keypad, and a 3.1-megapixel camera, among other features. More significant than the gadget itself, however, is the software that it contains: a cell-phone operating system developed by Google called Android.
Google released a software development kit for Android in November 2007, at the same time founding the Open Handset Alliance--a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunications companies charged with producing open standards for mobile gadgets. In developing Android, Google's goal has been simple: to revolutionize the mobile phone as we know it.
For programmers, Android is a big deal. Other cell-phone operating systems, such as Windows Mobile and Symbian, are notoriously tricky to write programs for and sometimes limit access to the underlying hardware, such as the camera or GPS chip. In contrast, Android has been designed to make it simple to build applications, and it gives programmers free rein over a phone's hardware.
Just ask Jasper Lin, who codeveloped an application that recently won $275,000 in a Google-backed Android competition. Lin's team, called Locale, wrote software that automatically changes a phone's settings, such as its ring volume, depending on the time of day, the user's location, and the events in her calendar. "Android is a really great platform from a developer's perspective," says Lin. "I've developed for Symbian, and that was quite arduous at times."
Although Android is not completely open source (the entire source code is expected to be released later this year), Lin says that it already gives developers much greater access to hardware than other devices do.
But for the average cell-phone user, the significance of Google's first phone may depend more on whether HTC's device is slicker and more desirable than other smart phones out there. Jack Gold, founding analyst of Jack Gold Associates, believes that the first Android phones will inevitably be compared to the iPhone and that they may fail to measure up. "All indications right now are that [the HTC device] is not another iPhone and that it's not going to take the market by storm," he says.
And first impressions will be vital, he believes. "If the first set of devices are not hits, will there be a second set? Mobile vendors and manufactures are not all that healthy. Most aren't making a whole lot of money."
Over the long term, however, the success of Android will also depend on the quality of its applications. And with a project as widely distributed as Android, the question of quality control--making sure that third-party applications work well and aren't malicious--arises. The iPhone App Store solves this problem by vetting each application as it comes in. Android's model, however, is more of a free-for-all, says Lin.
People who download Android applications will be able to try them out on their phone and then vote--on whether or not they work well or drain the phone's battery, for instance. "You give [users] the power, and the apps that don't work will be voted down," Lin says. This is an incentive for him to write Locale in a way that makes it extremely power efficient.
But whether this approach also translates into better applications remains to be seen, and this could be all-important. "It's not about what's powering the device," says Gold. "It's about what the device can empower a consumer to do."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSCOGxh5LEk
Google released a software development kit for Android in November 2007, at the same time founding the Open Handset Alliance--a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunications companies charged with producing open standards for mobile gadgets. In developing Android, Google's goal has been simple: to revolutionize the mobile phone as we know it.
For programmers, Android is a big deal. Other cell-phone operating systems, such as Windows Mobile and Symbian, are notoriously tricky to write programs for and sometimes limit access to the underlying hardware, such as the camera or GPS chip. In contrast, Android has been designed to make it simple to build applications, and it gives programmers free rein over a phone's hardware.
Just ask Jasper Lin, who codeveloped an application that recently won $275,000 in a Google-backed Android competition. Lin's team, called Locale, wrote software that automatically changes a phone's settings, such as its ring volume, depending on the time of day, the user's location, and the events in her calendar. "Android is a really great platform from a developer's perspective," says Lin. "I've developed for Symbian, and that was quite arduous at times."
Although Android is not completely open source (the entire source code is expected to be released later this year), Lin says that it already gives developers much greater access to hardware than other devices do.
But for the average cell-phone user, the significance of Google's first phone may depend more on whether HTC's device is slicker and more desirable than other smart phones out there. Jack Gold, founding analyst of Jack Gold Associates, believes that the first Android phones will inevitably be compared to the iPhone and that they may fail to measure up. "All indications right now are that [the HTC device] is not another iPhone and that it's not going to take the market by storm," he says.
And first impressions will be vital, he believes. "If the first set of devices are not hits, will there be a second set? Mobile vendors and manufactures are not all that healthy. Most aren't making a whole lot of money."
Over the long term, however, the success of Android will also depend on the quality of its applications. And with a project as widely distributed as Android, the question of quality control--making sure that third-party applications work well and aren't malicious--arises. The iPhone App Store solves this problem by vetting each application as it comes in. Android's model, however, is more of a free-for-all, says Lin.
People who download Android applications will be able to try them out on their phone and then vote--on whether or not they work well or drain the phone's battery, for instance. "You give [users] the power, and the apps that don't work will be voted down," Lin says. This is an incentive for him to write Locale in a way that makes it extremely power efficient.
But whether this approach also translates into better applications remains to be seen, and this could be all-important. "It's not about what's powering the device," says Gold. "It's about what the device can empower a consumer to do."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSCOGxh5LEk
Sunday, October 12, 2008
The New Age Of Innovation
I will write a little bit about the book from C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan.. First, here is a link to an article about the book in: Businessweek
and a link to a blog where it is discussed: The New Age Of Innovation Forum
The book is focusing on the (N=1, R=G) model: C. K. Prahalad and M. S. Krishnan present evolution of business models over the past century. The two pillars of this model are:
1) How many consumers does one product target?
2) Where all does the firm mobilize resources from?
For example, let’s look at Ford’s Model-T which came out in 1908. It was a product based on “one model fits all” principle (“Any color is ok as long as it is black”). Further, the resources producing the car had to be with the firm all located in and around one place: Dearborn, Michigan. Ford was one of the most vertically integrated firms.
Now, compare this model to Amazon’s model. When you log-in to amazon, it displays the books (say, on innovation) which interest you. When you e-browse a book, it also shows the reviews as well as other books which are related to the topic. You certainly feel it is an experience, unique to you. Where does Amazon pull the resources from? From a number of bookstores across the world, developers in US, Europe, Asia, in short, all over the world.
Prahalad calls this model (N=1, R=G); value is based on unique & personalized experience and is based on access to resources across the globe (as against ownership of resources co-located)
and a link to a blog where it is discussed: The New Age Of Innovation Forum
The book is focusing on the (N=1, R=G) model: C. K. Prahalad and M. S. Krishnan present evolution of business models over the past century. The two pillars of this model are:
1) How many consumers does one product target?
2) Where all does the firm mobilize resources from?
For example, let’s look at Ford’s Model-T which came out in 1908. It was a product based on “one model fits all” principle (“Any color is ok as long as it is black”). Further, the resources producing the car had to be with the firm all located in and around one place: Dearborn, Michigan. Ford was one of the most vertically integrated firms.
Now, compare this model to Amazon’s model. When you log-in to amazon, it displays the books (say, on innovation) which interest you. When you e-browse a book, it also shows the reviews as well as other books which are related to the topic. You certainly feel it is an experience, unique to you. Where does Amazon pull the resources from? From a number of bookstores across the world, developers in US, Europe, Asia, in short, all over the world.
Prahalad calls this model (N=1, R=G); value is based on unique & personalized experience and is based on access to resources across the globe (as against ownership of resources co-located)
Saturday, October 11, 2008
iNough 4.0 Group Assignment
I want to get the ball rolling a little bit conserning our group project...
In this post, I will:
1) add some of the visions/details of the assignment
2) write how I interpret it, and how my company research fits in
3) write a suggestion for how we can solve it/who does what/structure of assignment
1) The student handbook gave me some general guidlines. We are going to do research of three companies, preferably with different sizes. Within these companies, we are going to ask questions such as: "How does the company ensure that it continues to be innovative?", another question would be "Is this arranged formally and which parties are involved?".
We will especially look for the human factor, meaning for example; Which factors acts as barriers/boosts for innovation? Is there resistance? Structural issues, such as lack in flow of communication? How can they create new knowledge?
Here we can also use the Risk Model (the one which eventually leads towards crisis...;), and look for positive/negative factors within different campany sizes*.
(1 independant worker, a small company with 2-5 employees, and a big company with more than 35 permanent employees.)
*I guess we can be a little flexible regarding the size..?!
Then we are going to incorporate the results from the webblog and other reaserch into three future scenarios for the companies studied.
2) I am not sure about the last point. To me this means a suggestion for a solution to a future threat?
The company I am writing about for my individual report is closest to be called a big company if you use the examples from the handbook: Armada has 26 employees.
I do not know how important it is that we have three different sizes, but I guess it would be convenient... how many employees does your companies have? I will be focussing on the flow of communication within the company.
3) Just a suggestion from my side on how to structure the assignment:
Because we all write about one company, we should first read each others individual reports.
Then we could all find some links, big/interesting differences between them. And for example post our findings in our nice blog here :)
After that we could start to write an introduction, (we can leave our individual parts (including company profile and interview)), then make a section with our compares, and end with a conclusion/suggestions for a solution to future threats.
I hope it would work to use the blog for the collective parts. What do you think? (I also believe working together through the blog is part of the aim for this minor)
That was about it from me for now. What do you think? Hope you have some input/feedback..
Let's survive this Minor together :D
In this post, I will:
1) add some of the visions/details of the assignment
2) write how I interpret it, and how my company research fits in
3) write a suggestion for how we can solve it/who does what/structure of assignment
1) The student handbook gave me some general guidlines. We are going to do research of three companies, preferably with different sizes. Within these companies, we are going to ask questions such as: "How does the company ensure that it continues to be innovative?", another question would be "Is this arranged formally and which parties are involved?".
We will especially look for the human factor, meaning for example; Which factors acts as barriers/boosts for innovation? Is there resistance? Structural issues, such as lack in flow of communication? How can they create new knowledge?
Here we can also use the Risk Model (the one which eventually leads towards crisis...;), and look for positive/negative factors within different campany sizes*.
(1 independant worker, a small company with 2-5 employees, and a big company with more than 35 permanent employees.)
*I guess we can be a little flexible regarding the size..?!
Then we are going to incorporate the results from the webblog and other reaserch into three future scenarios for the companies studied.
2) I am not sure about the last point. To me this means a suggestion for a solution to a future threat?
The company I am writing about for my individual report is closest to be called a big company if you use the examples from the handbook: Armada has 26 employees.
I do not know how important it is that we have three different sizes, but I guess it would be convenient... how many employees does your companies have? I will be focussing on the flow of communication within the company.
3) Just a suggestion from my side on how to structure the assignment:
Because we all write about one company, we should first read each others individual reports.
Then we could all find some links, big/interesting differences between them. And for example post our findings in our nice blog here :)
After that we could start to write an introduction, (we can leave our individual parts (including company profile and interview)), then make a section with our compares, and end with a conclusion/suggestions for a solution to future threats.
I hope it would work to use the blog for the collective parts. What do you think? (I also believe working together through the blog is part of the aim for this minor)
That was about it from me for now. What do you think? Hope you have some input/feedback..
Let's survive this Minor together :D
Crisis
I want to shed some light on the crisis striking all countries. This morning I was reading in the newspaper that things are not looking good. As we all expect after these couple weeks and stuff that is going on. Ah well! I found out that in Zimbabwe (or one of the countries that sounds the same.. sorry can't remember) that the inflation is 350 MILLION percent. Yes a million not just normal percentage... That is like insane! They have only 3,50 EUR a day to grab from the bank, which they want to go to the supermarket, but everything is more expensive then that 3,50 EUR... Where is this going. I loved the video that was shown yesterday during the workshops. We innovate for others, so when others can't do or buy it, we provide. I totally like that way of thinking, maybe that is going to be the new innovation this era..
(Martine can you put a link in the comments to that video?
Part one of workshop Adam and Jessica
This is part one, Arno attended part two so we didn't record that...
Let's hope this is enough :)
(You can download the video if you follow the link in the video)
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
New Wario YouTube page
Be sure to check out this YouTube page, where you can experience the new Wii game Wario.
(the clue is to keep watching, you notice what I mean)
How a simple turn can save money
Some times the big creative ideas that improve companies are the results of years of R&D and millions in development cost. Some times the game changing ideas are simply a shift of perspective that has huge implications.
UPS’s new reduced left hand turn routing is just that kind of simple concept that will return millions in results.
Taking left turns often requires idling to wait for traffic to pass through an intersection; wasting time, fuel and therefore money.
By designating routes that minimize left hand turns the delivery giant is lowering their fuel costs and speeding up delivery, which can only serve customers in the end. And, oh yeah, it’s safer.
“A small improvement?” you might ask. Well, with 88,000 vehicles on the road each day, making 15,000,000 - yes, that’s 15-million - deliveries, I guess it adds up.
In this space the discussion is so often about how to make creative leaps. You wouldn’t be reading this if you didn’t see the importance of creative thinking in business. But it can feel daunting at times. “How and I going to come up with that huge idea?”
Monday, October 6, 2008
PICNIC 2008
Why o why didn't we get the free tickets to picnic! Well we can still be updated by the internet. I've always wondered how to interview Google on innovation, no idea where I was going to find their HQ in the Netherlands... Well now I found that Gisel Hiscock (see photo) did a presentation about innovation at Google on PICNIC 2008.
She is the Google Director of New Business Development for Europe, Middle East and Africa. (wow what a job, sign me up!)
Google has 9 principles for innovation;
1. Hire the best people. Hire the ones with Passion for their work. People with passion in their own working area are more likely to innovate
2. Ideas come from everywhere and everyone. Give the opportunity to let everybody give feedback about the products and problems in the company.
3. Share all available information, give employees access to all available information within the company.
4. Everyone in the team needs to understand the vision of the leader. When they understand the vision, only then they will see the value of their own activities.
5. Have the guts to put ideas and products on the shelf if they are not directly usable or give the desired results. Maybe you can
use them in the future. "Don't kill ideas!"
6. Speed. Bring a product as quick as possible on the market. The sooner you have feedback from your users, the sooner you know if you are on the right way or still have a (to) long way to go.
7. Data data data ... Passion for products is not enough. Try to quantify every process so the results are measurable.
8. The user. Always put the user first, a satisfied user lengthens the products lifetime.
9. Give the employees space to work on their own projects. This is the 20% rule, 20% of their time can be spend on own side projects.
Wow, the last one I totally new, some others make sense, but it is good to have some idea's of what Google is thinking about innovation and how they make it work. Logical enough I understand now why they have BETA, and all their products are sort of BETA. And if you want to look in
side the code of Google, they gave the opportunity to do that with Google Code. So not only their employees can have access to all information, we get a little access as well!
So Google wants us to respond on products so we van make them better, next time I will have a good look at Googles' new products and them submit ideas, IF needed...
By the way, talking about creativity, do you see all those stickers on, I guess her macbook, during her PICNIC's talk. 20% of her time might go to Google's new MacBook stickers... Who knows! ;)
(correction: never mind that MB was used by more people.. to bad for the MB sticker freaks!)
(Sources: PICNIC, Dutch Cowboys)
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Research Questions
Hi all, I will update this post when I get new suggestions from you.
Here are some questions I have got already:
Ambition
- Where do you get your ambition from?
- How did you come up with your mission and vision? And is it related to your ambition?
- Do you understand the mission and vision of the company?
- If I’d start the same company, how could I become as good as this company?
Market
- What’s the company’s position in the market?
- Who are the company’s competitors?
- Does the company respond to the needs of your customer? If yes, how?
Knowledge
- How does the company acquire information?
- Does the company do their own market research?
- Do you arrange work related workshops and trainings for your employees?
Skills
- What skills are required for your position?
- How specialized are your skills?
- What skills do you look for in your employees?
Innovation
- Do you think your company is innovative?
- If yes, what makes your company innovative? Which methods do you use?
- How do your customers and staff respond to your innovative ideas?
(The above questions are for Rudy's assignment)
More questions...
When you look to your own company, do you think it's innovative?
How does the creative process exist?
Where do you gather your info?
From which need do you innovate?
How do you implement new innovations?
Where does the drive come from?
What is your position in the market?
What tools do you give your staff to stay creative?
What if you have a set-back with you company, should that influence your innovations as well? (ind. ass.)
In what way is innovation honored/rewarded at your company? (group ass.)
Do employees get time off to innovate or to stop and think for a while? (group ass.)
What is your best external source for knowledge/skill/innovation for your company? (ind. ass.)
How do you encourage your employees to innovate and are the rewarded for that?
Do you have another good question? (either for the individual or for the group assignment) Send it to me, and I will post it here :)
PS: If you also think it is useful: note for which assignment it applies to.
Here are some questions I have got already:
Ambition
- Where do you get your ambition from?
- How did you come up with your mission and vision? And is it related to your ambition?
- Do you understand the mission and vision of the company?
- If I’d start the same company, how could I become as good as this company?
Market
- What’s the company’s position in the market?
- Who are the company’s competitors?
- Does the company respond to the needs of your customer? If yes, how?
Knowledge
- How does the company acquire information?
- Does the company do their own market research?
- Do you arrange work related workshops and trainings for your employees?
Skills
- What skills are required for your position?
- How specialized are your skills?
- What skills do you look for in your employees?
Innovation
- Do you think your company is innovative?
- If yes, what makes your company innovative? Which methods do you use?
- How do your customers and staff respond to your innovative ideas?
(The above questions are for Rudy's assignment)
More questions...
When you look to your own company, do you think it's innovative?
How does the creative process exist?
Where do you gather your info?
From which need do you innovate?
How do you implement new innovations?
Where does the drive come from?
What is your position in the market?
What tools do you give your staff to stay creative?
What if you have a set-back with you company, should that influence your innovations as well? (ind. ass.)
In what way is innovation honored/rewarded at your company? (group ass.)
Do employees get time off to innovate or to stop and think for a while? (group ass.)
What is your best external source for knowledge/skill/innovation for your company? (ind. ass.)
How do you encourage your employees to innovate and are the rewarded for that?
Do you have another good question? (either for the individual or for the group assignment) Send it to me, and I will post it here :)
PS: If you also think it is useful: note for which assignment it applies to.
Friday, October 3, 2008
Our feedback on the workshop
by Koen, Jos and Josh
If we want people to write down results, we should use big pieces of paper, like the flip-over. So we can hang them up and let people see what other people wrote down, rather just have your own sheet of paper.
The workshop went to fast (45 min). At least the feeling was that it was rushed, we need to take more time for everything and give people time to think
Also let people think of a while and let them be quiet for a while to let the process.
Have a break between some of the questions, we did a short break with questions to get creative, but we should have done that between the hats and discussing.
Explain the hats and processes more clearer.
Use hardware for presentation. I think this was because we used a powerpoint and not the whiteboard, I think he wanted to see some whiteboard interaction.
Split up in to groups once in a while than just sit the entire time together.
If we want people to write down results, we should use big pieces of paper, like the flip-over. So we can hang them up and let people see what other people wrote down, rather just have your own sheet of paper.
The workshop went to fast (45 min). At least the feeling was that it was rushed, we need to take more time for everything and give people time to think
Also let people think of a while and let them be quiet for a while to let the process.
Have a break between some of the questions, we did a short break with questions to get creative, but we should have done that between the hats and discussing.
Explain the hats and processes more clearer.
Use hardware for presentation. I think this was because we used a powerpoint and not the whiteboard, I think he wanted to see some whiteboard interaction.
Split up in to groups once in a while than just sit the entire time together.
Space Mission
I'm just browsing through some old new article's, and NASA has kind of decided where to build a new moon-base. It's going to be at a crater near the south pole of the moon. The crater is really old and the chances of finding ice (so there can be water supply) is high.
The city is going to have a earthly caracter so it's easy for astronauts to live in for a long time.
And they are investigating to send cable-tv signal to the moon, so the astronauts can have a form of entertainment and still follow their favorite soaps. Wow that is cool, but I think NASA can innovate in this, and maybe earn some money rather than spending it. Let's create a new soap called mLife (moon life), about all the experiences of the astronauts and their relations and so on. And beam that back to earth! Great for the viewers and a 24-h channel to follow them like Big Brother, and what about asking EA to make a game? An expansion pack for the game spore maybe? Spore goes to the Moon, building your colonies there. Or maybe a new Sims expansion, or way not create an entire new game. NASA will be able to advertise in it too, and heck yes way not even look for future employees in players that have high scores? Sounds like a future innovation to me!
News source: nu.nl/...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The First Sustainable Dance Floor
The word 'sustainable' is often used to mean reducing something. At SDC we want it to mean more! We have developed the Sustainable Dance Floor, a product that captures the energy produced by people and turns it into electricity; the Sustainable Dance Floor. Through movement every person produces energy, and depending on people's weight and activity it will be now 5-10 Watt for the first floor. Thanks to the techniques from TU Eindhoven and Daan Roosegaarde we are able to use that energy.
When you are in a club dancing on the Sustainable Dance Floor, you cannot only feel the energy but you will also experience it. The floor shows different levels, providing unique visual experiences on every energy level, from loading and average, to the maximum level of the evening, ultimate high!
The launch of this unique product will be in Club WATT; the first Sustainable Dance Club worldwide under our label. This club is established in Rotterdam and has opened its doors in September.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Get yourself started!
http://www.eightprinciples.com/
http://www.fivebigquestions.com/
http://www.fivebigquestions.com/
- Found through other blogs by our class, worth the posting -
Monday, September 22, 2008
Battle of the Search engines
(bron: Dutch Cowboys: http://www.dutchcowboys.nl/video/15010)
MSN vs. Google
MSN vs. YaHoo
MSN vs. Google
MSN vs. YaHoo
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Innovation news
Monday Morning Newspaper Picks with Josh
The DAG also posted this nice kitchen tool. You can put an egg in this to cook it in your pan of water, but at the same time it's a cup for your egg! Never have to get in trouble to get those eggs out of the water, just grab your tool now!
It is monday morning and Joshua has picked up the four free newspapers from the stations and read them to find interesting innovating things in his eyes written down this morning, Sept 15th.
My favorite newspaper is DAG, one of their theme's is about the "probleemjongeren". Youth are getting out of control and something needs to happen. Well now the police is offering these types a 'weekend-away', behind bars of course. With this new campaign the Tilburgse police tries to calm down the streets of problem-types. I like the slogan, and the way they present this solution. They are looking more and more for solutions, in Leeuwarden they already started handing out chocolate since it makes you less aggressive, camera's in Groningen register sound now too, more and more camera's are placed in hot spots and a lot of places in also Gronin
gen are not using glass anymore since it can be used as weapon.
The problem is also mentioned in Metro, Spits and De Pers (including the Gouda incident with Connexxion). And this is because the Tweede Kamer is going to debate on the current youth policies. Also tomorrow during Prinsjesdag it is speculated that funds are going to be opened in that direction.
The DAG also posted this nice kitchen tool. You can put an egg in this to cook it in your pan of water, but at the same time it's a cup for your egg! Never have to get in trouble to get those eggs out of the water, just grab your tool now!I want to continu with De Pers now, innovation for the ambulances in the Netherlands, we're going to put camera's on it for the safety of our healthcare takers. It has something to do with the thing mentioned above, and we keep on seeing more violence, let's hope these camera's help
The thing that really stuck my innovation senses was the idea what we are going to do with the tunnels from the Noord/Zuid-Lijn. The water is getting more and more in the way and if there is not going to be more billions of investments it's going to be abandoned. Most of the abandoned stations in Ohio, London and Paris are used for large storage for the trains. But they found something for some old subway stations in London en Sidney. London created a large ambient pedestrian tunnel and in another station they build a filmstudio. Sidney used one for mushroom breeding but now they made a unique landscape with ends in a large underground lake.
Now there is already a project going on in an old subway tunnel in Amsterdam which was going to connect to IJburg but soon wil be the new "chocoladefabriek". Also tunfun is created from an old tunnel near Waterlooplein.
So the future for the soon to be abandoned(?) Noord/Zuid-Lijn; a soundproof dance music hall, or if the water is going to flood it anyway, put some canal boats in it and we created a new attraction for tourists to visit!
Some small details, MySpace is going to sponsor a new talent show, the search for new comedians, H&M opened their first store in Japan! My sister would be happy with that. And there is another option besides sellaband for bands that don't have a recordlabel; Unsigned, a project of MCN, Muziek Centrum Nederland in coöperation with Metro.
That's this weeks selection.
UPDATE: 4.0
Currently this group has exceeded it's lifetime in 3.0 and we must call this group 4.0!
We got a new member Jessica, welcome!
The web adress (URL) will remain the same until further notice.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Just some quotes to inspire
"The best way to kill creativity in a team is letting the boss speak first"
-- Victoria Holtz
5/23/2007
"The ability to innovate is only as good as how one can accept changes and take risks."
-- Franco Paolo Liu Eisma
10/31/2006
"Never innovate to compete, innovate to change the rules of the game."
-- David O. Adeife
8/5/2005
Source:
http://www.innovationtools.com/Quotes/Quotes.asp
-- Victoria Holtz
5/23/2007
"The ability to innovate is only as good as how one can accept changes and take risks."
-- Franco Paolo Liu Eisma
10/31/2006
"Never innovate to compete, innovate to change the rules of the game."
-- David O. Adeife
8/5/2005
Source:
http://www.innovationtools.com/Quotes/Quotes.asp
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Group 3.0
Introducing the group:
Joshua de Jong, blogs under Josh at http://innovation-factor-x.blogspot.com
Jos (info coming)
Koen (info coming)
Meaning of the Name:
I was thinking about a name for our group. We are thinking and blogging about innovations, so something with innovation and with group of 3, since we are with three. So the tagline is something like "Innovation seen through eyes from a group of three." There from I started on a name:
Innov with Three
Innov with 3
INOUGH with 3 (refers to enough, there is enough to blog about)
iNough (like iPod)
iNough 3.0 (like web 2.0)
Concluding our name for the group: iNough 3.0 formatted like the Google Logo.
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