Redesigning work, employment and the social contract - HEATHER MCGOWAN. Amplify Festival. DIGIVIZER sur Twitter : "Meta photo: @maverickwoman listening to @jhagel #AmplifyFest ^TH #Innovation #Ecosystems #Growth... Amplify Festival sur Twitter : "What have today's #AmplifyFest sessions made you #rethink? We're asking you now #voxpops #business #tech #innovation. Five companies' plans for baby boomer market. R Ray Wang (王瑞光) sur Twitter : "MyPOV: always great watching @maverickwoman in action. Sharing lessons learned in her #innovation journeys. China Australia sur Twitter : "#IWD2015 #shoutout to 2 inspiring #woman #leaders - @maverickwoman, #innovation champion, and my grandma! @theliuyan. Amplify | Business innovation and thought leadership.
Amplify Festival 2015 - Speakers Ben Haines Yahoo! VP Corporate Applications & Platforms "We need to be able to do business at the speed of customers. " Brian Lim delta-V Space Alliance Serial Entrepreneur, Co-founder "Australia must move from a technology dependent country to a technology independent country. " Cheryl K Burgess Blue Focus Marketing Marketer, Researcher, Author "The Social Employee" "Brands cannot communicate well externally until they communicate internally. " Chris Mendes Rozetta Technology Chief Technology Officer "I think Spiderman was talking about the Internet of Things when he said, With great power comes great responsibility. " Chris Shipley MIT Solve Curator "We can only solve the big, big problems of the world if we have the courage to fail.
" Claudia Hopman Global Women Leadership Foundation President "While men and women are part of the problem, both must be part of the solution. " Dan Goldstein Microsoft Research, New York Principal Research Scientist (Behavioural Finance) Dr Norman Lewis. Homepage | Amplify | Business innovation and thought leadership.
The Big Data opportunity that’s based on trust “Data spreads, data moves quickly and is shared amount enterprises. What if sharing data with an enterprise that has other ramifications that you weren’t aware of?” JoAnn Stonier, Mastercard Read more Wearables: The next big thing in customer relationships Imagine a world in which the customer manages the relationship with the vendor, a future in which the sharing of data could create a win-win situation for company and customer alike. Read more Welcome To The New Private Internet A global business launched this week at Amplify throws big data management on its head by putting the customer in control of the information they share.
Read more If You Build It: Australian Screening. Perspectives: Six Myths of Innovation Policy | EA July 2013. There is broad, bipartisan agreement that spurring economic growth needs to be at the top of the policy agenda in both the U.S. and in Europe--and that fostering innovation is one of the best ways to do it. As a result, over the last three years, the U.S. Congress has reauthorized the America COMPETES Act and the Department of Commerce has put renewed focus on innovation. Likewise, the European Union has made an "Innovation Union" one of seven flagship initiatives in its Europe 2020 Strategy.
Unfortunately, these efforts are limited and often lack the necessary political support because both policy makers and the general public misunderstand innovation and how best to promote it. This article examines six "myths of innovation policy. " Scott Berkin's book, "The Myths of Innovation," is required reading for anyone who wishes to truly understand innovation. A recurring theme throughout the book is that just coming up with a good idea is not enough. But there are other cultural barriers. No art? No social change. No innovation economy. America must invest in art and imaginative capacity. Welcome to the creative crisis. Welcome to a nation unable to solve its problems, incapable of civil discourse, bogged down in a morass of multicultural conflict, and lagging the global innovation marketplace.
Just look forward a generation or two, and this will be America if we do not address the dearth of investment in art and imaginative capacity. As social entrepreneurs, we have not stepped up as champions because we are not seeing the impacts that arts can have on every issue we care about. I have had the opportunity to work on poverty alleviation, educational equity, environmental health, and many other issues.
There is no way to monitor and enforce whether every American conserves water, makes alternative transportation choices, etc. Our economy is moving from being manufacturing-based to being innovation-based. And this is where arts and culture are a necessity. Read the original, full article. Wild Duck with a Gun | InnosanityInnosanity. Great CEOs cherish their wild ducks, the employees that see the world differently and challenge the status quo. But fostering them in a corporate environment is as tricky as… well, as tricky as keeping a flock of wild ducks in your house. It’s a matter of balance, especially when it comes to power and influence.
Wild ducks are often best when they have no institutional power. They don’t need it. But if you provide no protection, something much worse can happen. It’s cathartic to see the wild duck with a gun, taking down the corporate drone who is standing in the way of a new idea just to get home early. But sometimes, usually long after he has run out of creative energy and is left only with a pervasive sense of aggression, the rogue wild duck acquires institutional power.
But that’s not what happens. The rogue duck becomes the perfect hunter of wild ducks. So CEOs, cherish your wild ducks. Sending Robots To Print Infrastructure On Mars, So It's Ready When We Get There. Where we’re going, we’ll need roads. But before long-term settlers arrive on Mars or the moon, one engineer is working under a NASA grant to make sure that the proper infrastructure is already in place. For almost two years, the University of Southern California’s Dr. Behrok Khoshnevis has been building machines that can extrude lunar and Martian soil into hangars, roads, and landing pads. Last month, NASA released a simulation of what this might actually look like in space. “I’m hoping to continue this if there’s more funding,” he says. Khoshnevis didn’t launch his career with interplanetary construction in mind. One of Khoshnevis’s breakthroughs came by way of sulfur concrete.
“Go to Home Depot, buy a one-foot section of metallic pipe, go to the beach, fill it with sand, hold it horizontally, and use your thumb and try to push it out. But building for space on Earth does have its advantages. “I am not necessarily banking on this to happen in my lifetime,” he says. Strapless Panties, Miraculously Skimpier Than G-Strings, Hit Fashion Week. Committing the mortal sin of visible panty lines on the runway of New York Fashion Week could have dire consequences. But then, in the age of wardrobe malfunctions, it's also scary to imagine what could happen to a model going commando. This Fashion Week, designer Jenny Beuttner comes to the rescue with her adhesive, strapless underwear. Beuttner has managed to create an under garment even skimpier than the barely-there thong or g-string, called the Shibue Strapless Panty. "We Didn't Cross The Line…We Erased It! " the brand gleefully announces on its website.
After gracing the Salon de la Lingerie Runway in Paris, Shibue Strapless Panties have become the undergarment of choice for models at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, where Shibue Couture is supported by Hugo Boss, Katie Stern by Venexiana, and the Hervé Léger by Max Azria Fall 2014 Runway Show. Beuttner invented the Shibue in the spur of the moment as a bridesmaid at her sister's wedding. [h/t: If It's Hip It's Here] HargravesInst : @maverickwoman sharing her... The Secret To Unleashing Genius. Research : Speakers : Forrester's Summit For CIOs: Australia 2013. Giftedness in the work environment | High Ability / Gifted Adults. Backgrounds and practical recommendations By Noks Nauta, Sieuwke Ronner This article was published in Dutch in Tijdschriftvoor Bedrijfs-en Verzekeringsgeneeskunde (Journal for Occupational Health- and Insurance Physicians), TBV 16, no. 11 (Nov. 2008): 396-399.
Publisher: Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum, Houten, The Netherlands. The editor agreed with translation and publication on this website. Key words: GIFTEDNESS, CHARACTERISTICS, FAVOURABLE AND UNFAVOURABLE ENVIRONMENTS In November 2002, an article was published in this journal entitled Gifted individuals at work.1 Up until then, little had been published on the subject of giftedness and work, even outside the Netherlands. What particularly caught people’s attention was the table presenting side by side two perceptions of problems encountered by the gifted in fitting in with their environment: one from the perspective of the gifted employee and one from that of his/her environment. Central points Favourable organisational characteristics 1. 2. 3. Australian Youth Mentoring Network: Leadership Series.
Amplify Festival 2013 | June 3 - 7. The 3 Pillars Of The Innovation Economy. In his 1942 book, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, economist Joseph Schumpeter introduced the notion of an innovation economy. He argued that evolving institutions, entrepreneurs, and technological changes were at the heart of economic growth. But it is only in recent years that “innovation economy,” grounded in Schumpeter’s ideas, has become a mainstream concept. And since 2009, Aspen Institute’s Economic Innovation roundtables validate that innovation, to be effective, requires a real leadership impact that stems from collaboration, vision, and above all the will to direct progress for long-term growth. It is about how to harness any organization’s full potential through leadership mandates and actions for a sustainable future. In this post, I wanted to highlight three key concepts from my forthcoming book: 1.
In a Forbes article, Keld Jensen writes: Inspire and Influence. Create a Community. Think Long-Term. 2. Organizing Teams that serve to move the innovation lifecycle forward. When Ashby met Einstein: A minimalist approach to complexity. I like the idea of a minimalist approach to complexity. I also like a good daydream…and heading back from Edinburgh to London on the East Coast line, the scenery around Berwick leads one to daydream… …just not “simpler” I ended up eves dropping on a conversation between Einstein and Ashby (law of requisite variety). They were in my local coffee shop for a chat over a game of chess and a cappuccino. Why a cappuccino, you ask? Einstein and Ashby probed each others propositions – the exchange was at the pace of park bench speed chess. Cutting to the endgame (my daydream skipped the mid-game – not enough time), they reached a stalemate, taken by each as shared victory. “Variety requires variety, but no more than is necessary to sync a system with the external environment”.
They agreed to meet for a rematch, with a promise to tackle the problem of increased connectedness bringing about increased diversity, which decreases energy and taxes existing boundary sense and response resources. Corporations need mavericks for innovation: CBA CIO. Farting on planes study | Let them rip, say experts. People may fart more on flights because of changes in the volume of intestinal gasses as cabin pressure alters. Photo: Getty Images Farting, cutting the cheese, letting her rip, breaking wind - whatever you call it, experts say it's better out than in even on a plane.
Pilots, especially, have been urged to let flatulence out for safety's sake, but passengers risk being ignored by cabin crews if they do. A team of Danish and British gastroenterologists produced a paper on flatulence on planes after one of them, Jacob Rosenberg, was inspired on a flight between Copenhagen and Tokyo. The problem is that farting is an invariable consequence of digestion and people do it about 10 times a day. Advertisement But people may fart more on flights because of changes in the volume of intestinal gasses as cabin pressure alters.
Stress, discomfort, pain, bloating, dyspepsia and other symptoms could ensue, while not discounting the chance that all the effort may be sabotaged by turbulence in any case. Russell Ackoff. - Keeping Relevant in Order to Prosper : Wednesday, January 30, 2013. How Innovation Happens. The Future of Learning - Part 2 - How Innovation Happens We're delighted to present you with the 2nd instalment of essential viewing from the recent LWF 12 : Future of Learning Conference. Charles Leadbeater - Global Learning Innovations Creativity & innovation leader & author of the recent book "Innovation in Education: Lessons from Pioneers around the World" on behalf of WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education), Charles Leadbeater, discusses how traditional education systems often fail providing examples of radical educational innovators who, starting at the margins rather than the mainstream, create new and effective ways of providing access to learning. Conrad Wolfram - Making Maths Beautiful Conrad Wolfram, Mathematician Founder, Wolfram Research Europe.
The importance of math to jobs, society and thinking has exploded over the last few decades. Meanwhile, math education has gotten stuck or has even slipped backward. Michael Brooks - The Secret Anarchy of Science. Who we represent | Reagency.
Business Innovation: 45 Articles for Organizational Success. Business innovation and strategy were central topics when the Brainzooming blog’s precursor started in 2007. Since then, the content covered in the blog has grown and changed, but there’s a concerted effort to stay true to its initial strategic theme. Following up the recent summary article with links on social media strategy, this list covers new business innovation articles from 2010. Most appeared on Brainzooming initially, but some were published exclusively as guest Brainzooming blogs on other websites. Beyond this comprehensive list, another key business innovation reference on Brainzooming is the post “Taking the NO Out of Business InNOvation,” an overview of ten common situations blocking business innovation across companies.
Strategic Business Success – 3 Critical Perspectives – It takes more than one kind of thinking for innovative success. It takes three! Not Even One of These Things Is Not Like Another – Ensure you have the diversity you need for innovative thinking. - StumbleUpon. People who practice collaborative innovation commit to transforming their communities and organizations in authentic ways. Through the practice, people realize their potential for leadership by posing the critical questions that matter and by convening peers to pursue the ideas that follow. And, let’s be honest: the practice takes a lot of work. In this article, I reflect on ways in which people can approach the practice to increase the odds that it persists and proliferates. The Insistence on Persistence Persistence is a blade with two sharp edges. We deem people who persist in pursuing what we see as a worthwhile cause as noble.
We deem others who persist in pursuing what we see as a spurious cause as misguided. The practice of collaborative innovation can rest on the green, rolling hillsides of the former camp. People may perceive value in the practice. Time Is Not Your Friend I was wrong. Time escaped them in many ways. Lesson learned: get on with it. Here Be Fertile Ground Coaches Wanted. Montessori Lessons for Innovators. Since the revelations that many stars of silicon valley are alumni of Montessori schools there has been a lot of interest in what managers can learn from the Montessori approach to education. I hadn’t realized this until Tim told me but the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergei Brin, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales are all members of the US creative elite called the “Montessori Mafia“. This seems to be more than a circumstantial relationship with a survey of 3000 executives of innovative companies showing that many were influenced by a Montessori education, as one of the authors of “The Innovator’s DNA” tells in an Harvard Business Review interview.
A number of the innovative entrepreneurs also went to Montessori schools, where they learned to follow their curiosity. To paraphrase the famous Apple ad campaign, innovators not only learned early on to think different, they act different (and even talk different). But that’s the whole point. Washington Launch of "Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage" mHealth apps are just the beginning of the disruption in healthcare from open health data. Core Attributes For An Innovation Culture. ART-CM. Facebook Announces New Features in Payment Platform. The Callie Crossley Show.
Run a Disciplined Innovation Experiment - Video. Five Ways to Ruin Your Innovation Process - Rita McGrath. Are your executives isolated from your customers' experience? Craig Venter’s Bugs Might Save the World. Project on Social Innovation | Don Fitch | The Roots of Innovation: A Very Personal, Methodical Discovery. 5 Ways Process Is Killing Your Productivity. 21 innovation rules in movies - 21 Lobsterstreet. Australian brands lose credibility: Brand Assets study - News - Marketing.
A Small Businessman's Guide To Innovating Like The Pros. Reward & ecognition. Foundation and ITIF Unveil Global Innovation Policy Report Ranking 55 Nations' Capacities for Economic Growth. Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas. Creativity. Leading & Managing Innovation. Financial innovation. Social Innovation. Consultants/ specialists.