Innovation
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To save the world--or really to even just make our personal lives better--we will need to work less. Time, like work, has become commodified, a recent legacy of industrial capitalism, where a controlled, 40-hour week (or more) in factories was necessary. Our behavior is totally out of step with human priorities and the nature of today’s economy.
The Case For A 21-Hour Work Week
One of the fundamental errors many would-be innovators make is assuming that the hardest part of innovation is coming up with an idea.
A Small Businessman's Guide To Innovating Like The Pros | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
On average, employers spend less than 30 seconds scanning each resume, which is just enough time to determine if you went to the right college and joined the right eating club. Not that you can totally blame them. Perusing entire stacks of single-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman crammed improbably between the margins is enough to make a guy go cross-eyed.
New Service Gives Any Job Seeker A Slick, Custom Resume | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
Accounting has a user interface problem.
Xero Reinvents Accounting For Small Businesses, With Superb UI Design | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
The following is an excerpt from The Wide Lens: A New Strategy for Innovation .
The Innovator's Blindspot: Even Your Best Ideas Will Fail If Your Partners Don't Innovate Too | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
The following is an excerpt from Relentless Innovation: What Works, What Doesn’t--and What That Means for Your Business by Jeffrey Phillips. In the United States alone there are hundreds of large, successful firms with recognizable brand names that we encounter every day. We constantly hear innovation success stories about firms like Apple and Procter & Gamble, but we rarely hear about innovation in their direct competitors, Dell and Unilever, much less about innovation in any of the thousands of firms worldwide that compete in these markets.
Let’s Debunk 4 Myths About How Great Companies Innovate | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
Institute For The Future
On April 3-5, IFTF and the Rockefeller Foundation invited people all over the world to join the Catalysts for Change game and imagine thousands of paths out of poverty.
En 2011, c’est la Suisse, qui est première paris 125 économies en matière d’innovation , selon l’indice mondial de l’innovation (GII) de l’école de management Insead, sponsorisé par Alcatel Lucent, Booz&Co, l’office mondial des brevets (Wipo) et la confédération indienne de l’industrie.
Où est la France dans l’indice mondial de l’innovation 2011 ? | L'Innovation en questions
Geoff Mulgan about the state of social innovation | eYeka Co-creation Blog
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« Le storytelling facilite le partage de la connaissance »
Eddie Soulier : Dans le domaine de la gestion des connaissances ( knowledge management ), le storytelling est une méthode qui s’intéresse au contenu et aux modalités des actes de communication au sein des organisations, et plus particulièrement aux récits. L’objectif est de comprendre le rôle de ces derniers dans les situations de travail et de coopération afin d’en amplifier les effets sur le partage des connaissances.L’expédition "Nouvelles approches de la confiance numérique" s’est conclue le 1er février 2011 par une manifestation publique où ont été présentées les résultats.