Case Studies, Manufacturing In Mexico, Manufacturing Plants In Mexico Monster Cable After working with quality manufacturers in Asia, Monster Cable recognizes that opening a Mexico manufacturing facility with NAPS significantly improves their bottom line – Monster Cable Products was founded in 1979 by Noel Lee, then a laser-fusion engineer at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. Lee was an audiophile and professional drummer who set out to improve audio quality by developing high performance speaker cables. Lee developed a better construction for cables that would expand the clarity, dynamics and power of audio signals. Through his efforts, Monster Cable became one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high performance cables for audio, video and computer components. Read more » Speck Products Speck Uncovers Significant Cost Savings on Air Freight & Packaging Materials by Establishing a Facility in Mexico – Speck Products has been a market leader in the electronic accessory category, selling fun and unique products for every personality. Read more » Qualcomm
Is expertise a necessary precondition for creativity?: A case of four novice learning group facilitators JavaScript is disabled on your browser. Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. Abstract Many North American theorists conceptualize expertise as preceding creativity. Keywords Expert thinking skills Shared expertise Social creativity Group facilitation Collective zone of proximal development Choose an option to locate/access this article:
How to create a landing page A landing page is a web page that allows you to capture a visitor's information through a lead form. A good landing page will target a particular audience, such as traffic from an email campaign promoting a particular ebook, or visitors who click on a pay-per-click ad promoting your webinar. So it’s important to build a unique landing page for each of the offers you create. You can build landing pages that allow visitors to download your content offers (ebooks, whitepapers, webinars, etc.), or to sign up for offers like free trials or demos of your product. Creating landing pages allows you to target your audience, offer them something of value, and convert a higher percentage of your visitors into leads. Whether you’re building a landing page for a new lead or an existing lead or customer, the end goal is the same: to capture your lead’s interest in something you have to offer, and then use this opportunity to nurture them further down the marketing funnel towards the next sale. 1. 2.
Walking Promotes Divergent Thinking, Find Stanford Scientists Humans have a complicated relationship with walking. This wasn’t always so. British paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey identified marks of bipedalism dating back 3.7 million years in Tanzania—it’s an old endeavor indeed. The story of our uprightness was, for most of history, one of survival and thriving. Bipedalism conferred onto us two distinct advantages. Secondly, and more importantly for this story, the ability to walk turned us into efficient communicators. Was walking considered a creative endeavor, however? The more sedentary the world has become, the more the primitive act of walking is romanticized. Modern activities for creative problem solving include daydreaming, sleep, and cardiovascular exercise. The team conducted four experiments to better understand how walking affects creative thinking, with two tests administered to participants. Asking people to take a 30-min run to improve their subsequent seated creativity would be an unhappy prescription for many people.
30+ Free Online Multimedia (Photo, Audio, Video) Editors We tend to rely heavily on our favorite desktop applications like Photoshop, GIMP, Audacity, Adobe Premier and so on when it comes to dealing with multimedia files. That’s fine on our desktops but what if we need to use an editor on a friend’s computer, or a public one at the workplace? That is where web applications come in handy. Web applications provide ubiquity, convenience and ease of use . As long as you have a web browser that connects to the Internet, you can find multimedia editors online to get your photos, audio files or even videos edited on the fly. Here’s a list of free web services that allows you to edit multimedia files (photo, audio and video) quick and easy online. Photo Editors Pixlr Editor Pixlr Editor allows you to edit images with features much like those you can find in Photoshop. Fotor Picmonkey Picmonkey provides basic editing of your photos, touch ups, and the ability to create a design for social network use. Befunky Polarr Editor Fotostar Photo Editor SDK Photofy Coub
The Virtues of Confusion We all know that confusion doesn't feel good. Because it seems like an obstacle to learning, we try to arrange educational experiences and training sessions so that learners will encounter as little confusion as possible. But as is so often the case when it comes to learning, our intuitions here are exactly wrong. Scientists have been building a body of evidence over the past few years demonstrating that confusion can lead us to learn more efficiently, more deeply, more lastingly—as long as it's properly managed. How can this be? The human brain is a pattern-recognition machine. We short-circuit this process of subconscious learning, however, when we rush in too soon with an answer. 1. 2. 3.
The Select Source: Bringing Buyers and Sellers Together Creative Think: Give Yourself A Whack on the Side of the Head The more often you do something in the same way, the more difficult it is to think about doing it in any other way. Break out of this "prison of familiarity" by disrupting your habitual thought patterns. Write a love poem in the middle of the night . . . How can you whack your thinking? How would each of the following situations change the way in which you think about your issue: How do you whack your thinking? The 25th Anniversary Edition (completely revised, redesigned, and updated) of the book "A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative" will be published by Business Plus on May 5, 2008.
Steve Hawk - Entrepreneur & Lifestyle Coach Creativity Challenge 1998 #4 - Crawford's Attribute Listing Creativity Challenge 1998 #4 Robert C. Crawford, professor at the University of Nebraska who taught creativity classes in the early 50s, wrote about ATTRIBUTE LISTING in his book, The Techniques of Creative Thinking published in 1954. So this week let's try an "oldie but a goodie". Take a common object/challenge/problem. My 5th step. Take 1 to 6 of the wildest and think about how you/we might reach or create that result. In 1954 my father was learning to use a computer at his company to do his gear engineering designs. If he had used "attribute listing" he might have listed "size of the computer". Then he might start working on how that might be possible. Viola his son buys a "palm top" computer in 1998. Your challenge if you take it this week is to use attribute listing on a "lawn mower". Prev Page Next Page Index Page
Super Seller Websitevideo: A Career is Born Ron, known on Fiverr as Websitevideo, creates high-quality, professional spokesperson videos for a range of uses, including content marketing, training, PowerPoint slides, sketchpads, and much more. Always striving to exceed his customers’ expectations has earned him a loyal and constantly expanding customer base. Which is why we’re pleased to congratulate Ron on becoming our latest Super Seller! Ron’s Fiverr Journey I live in Baltimore, Md., about 60 miles north of Washington, DC. I bumped into Fiverr about three years ago. That’s when I found my sweet spot. Since then, my business has grown organically on Fiverr and through a few outside venues. Fiverr is also a great resource for business services. Advice for Newcomers I believe there are many specific things a newcomer to Fiverr can do to maximize the opportunity to be successful, so I’ve written a post for the Fiverr user forum. The Impact of Fiverr Fiverr has made a big impact on my life. Fiverr has been a blessing. Comments comments
High Achiever, Gifted Learner, CreativeThinker Identification of gifted students is clouded when concerned adults misinterpret high achievement as giftedness. High-achieving students are noticed for their on-time, neat, well-developed, and correct learning products. Adults comment on these students' consistent high grades and note how well they acclimate to class procedures and discussions. Some adults assume these students are gifted because their school-appropriate behaviors and products surface above the typical responses of grade-level students. Educators with expertise in gifted education are frustrated trying to help other educators and parents understand that while high achievers are valuable participants whose high-level modeling is welcomed in classes, they learn differently from gifted learners. In 1989, Janice Szabos published a comparison of the bright child and the gifted learner. Later, in the second cartoon, the teacher poses a question to the class. Szabos, J. (1989).
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