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32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow - Interactive Feature

32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow - Interactive Feature
Electric Clothes Physicists at Wake Forest University have developed a fabric that doubles as a spare outlet. When used to line your shirt — or even your pillowcase or office chair — it converts subtle differences in temperature across the span of the clothing (say, from your cuff to your armpit) into electricity. And because the different parts of your shirt can vary by about 10 degrees, you could power up your MP3 player just by sitting still. According to the fabric’s creator, David Carroll, a cellphone case lined with the material could boost the phone’s battery charge by 10 to 15 percent over eight hours, using the heat absorbed from your pants pocket. Chris Nosenzo The New Coffee Soon, coffee isn’t going to taste like coffee — at least not the dark, ashy roasts we drink today. Analytical Undies Your spandex can now subtly nag you to work out. The Morning Multitasker The problem with laptops and tablets, says Mark Rolston of the design firm Frog, is that they’re confined by a screen.

The World According to TRIZ Extraordinary Meetings - 9bytz Here is a series of pictures we call extraordinary meetings. Would you believe Charlie Chaplin and Gandhi are in the same picture, or that William Burroughs and Kurt Cobain spent time together? Alfred Hitchcock and Andy Warhol William S. Burroughs and Kurt Cobain Charlie Chaplin and Ghandi Salvador Dali and Walt Disney Edith Sitwell and Marilyn Monroe Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and The Beatles Pablo Picasso and Brigitte Bardot Alfred Hitchcock and Salvador Dali Salvador Dali and Alice Cooper William S Burroughs and Debbie Harry Source: strawberige Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and John Burroughs Source: edisonfordwinterestates

Direção A função de direção se relaciona diretamente com a maneira pela qual o objetivo é alcançado através da orientação das operações que devem ser executadas. Estabelecidos os objetivos, definido o planejamento, detalhados os programas, a posta em marcha cabe à função de direção. É ela que passa a se preocupar com que as operações sejam executadas e os objetivos atingidos. Para dirigir subordinados, o administrador deve motivar comunicar e liderar. Os autores da escola de administração ou operacional salientam que o trabalho – qualquer que seja a sua natureza ou nível – deve ser dirigido para o alcance dos objetivos. Se os indivíduos não conhecem os objetivos a atingir, seus esforços serão feitos ao acaso. Enquanto as demais funções – planejamento, organização e controle – são impessoais, a direção é um processo interpessoal que determina relações entre indivíduos. (1) Ernest Dale e L.C.Michelon. O conceito de liderança tem vindo a evoluir ao longo dos tempos. Os Líderes Tipos de Liderança

The ultimate guide for the ambitious Innovation Manager (100+ sources) Running innovation projects is hard. By definition you’re doing new things so you can’t rely on old habits and routines. If you and your innovation team don’t feel uncomfortable, you’re simply not innovating. That doesn’t mean you’ll need to fly blind. At every moment in your innovation process you can use tools, references, checklists and other innovation methods. We do the same in our innovation projects. I. I.a Subscribe to innovation blogs Everyday you and your innovation team should be fuelled with fresh ideas. Our favorite websites to steal ideas: Where do you find new business ideas? Startup Stash Non-English innovation & inspiration feeds: I manage and read my +500 feeds via Feedly (also available on iPad/mobile). Many of the above blogs and websites have some awesome daily/weekly newsletters. Newsletters worth signing up to: Pocket is a great tool for keeping a track of what you have already read & plan to read! I.b Use social media as innovation news filters II. Evolve or dissolve!

Ebook Criatividade Aplicada | Criatividade e Inovação Habilidades e técnicas essenciais paracriatividade, inovação e solução de problemas. Você tem duas opções: o e-book na edição Kindle da Amazon e no formato tradicional PDF (116 páginas A4). Clique na figura abaixo correspondente à sua escolha e conclua sua compra. Importante: você não precisa ter o leitor Kindle para ler o livro na edição Kindle. Chegou a hora, você pode fazer a diferença Este é o momento para despertar e desenvolver sua criatividade. Tornar-se mais criativo significa ampliar e desenvolver as habilidades de solução de problemas e de aproveitar as oportunidades de inovação que surgem no dia a dia. Estas ferramentas têm ajudado indivíduos e equipes a gerarem uma grande variedade de ideias criativas, ou a elaborar e tornar as ideias mais ricas e completas. Libere e desenvolva sua criatividade Nas páginas do e-book Criatividade Aplicada você encontrará um guia prático com técnicas e ferramentas que o ajudarão a:

What is TRIZ and how can it be used in problem solving or brains What is TRIZ and how can it be used in problem solving or brainstorming? Innovation Tools 10/20/2003 Jack Hipple In the past ten years, a radical new innovation toolkit has entered the West from the former Soviet Union. Why is this? The development of TRIZ The genius of Altshuller and his successors was to recognize that the place to look for the basics of invention and new ideas was not in the brains of inventors, but where the inventions were collected and recognized -- the patent office. Altshuller categorized these inventive principles in several retrievable forms, including a contradiction table, 40 Inventive Principles, and 76 Standard Solutions. TRIZ Inventive Principles In reviewing the thousands of patents, Altshuller distinguished between incremental/routine inventions vs. truly breakthrough inventions. TRIZ Separation Principles In addition to the general problem of design or operational contradictions, there can also be contradictions within a parameter itself. Conclusion

IDEASYSTEM ® - Um produto Seara.com Com o IDEASYSTEM® todos os colaboradores da empresa terão oportunidade de implementar algumas das suas ideias. Cabe ao administrador do sistema a responsabilidade de criar várias empresas (caso o software seja aplicado a um grupo) ou departamentos com autonomia de gestão do seu núcleo de colaboradores; cada coordenador de grupo pode adicionar ou remover elementos; e o acesso de cada utilizador é reservado, sendo que o login e a password podem ser alterados pelo próprio. Segue-se a inserção de ideias que é feita livremente ou condicionada por um desafio do coordenador de departamento. Estas passam então a ser partilhadas pela comunidade interna: é possível apurar o número de visitantes de cada uma, podem assinalar-se as mais interessantes e até sugerir visitas ou efectuar o respectivo reencaminhamento. As estatísticas também foram contempladas, sendo, neste caso, possível relacionar o número de colaboradores com as ideias submetidas, tendo em conta a média esperada para cada colaborador.

Innovation Tools 9chuck Frey) Innovating Innovation? General Mills Makes It Happen General Mills is one of my favourite open innovation companies. They have great people on their open innovation team, G-WIN, who are always open to sharing their insights and experiences with others. They also constantly push themselves in their efforts to make open innovation even more successful at General Mills. Now, they have developed a new approach to their open innovation efforts called X3 and I really like how they focus on the need for facilitators. “Since formally launching the G-WIN open innovation program at General Mills five years ago, we learned that our scientists were excited about the open innovation tools available to them; however, they didn’t necessarily know how and when to use them most effectively,” said Mike Antinone, associate director of G-WIN. The X3 Process includes the following steps: • Ask the right question(s) – gather knowledge internally to gain alignment on your “true” knowledge gaps and technical needs imagecredit: change.org & businessweek

Could Governments Get Entrepreneurship? Some people think governments should stay away from the entrepreneurial world. Yet, some of the most interesting programs we have seen recently, such as Start-Up Chile, are promoted by local authorities. However, this program is very recent compared to another initiative called Barcelona Activa. If you have traveled to Barcelona lately, you may have noted its talent attraction campaign, “Do it in Barcelona“. Yet, what you may not know is that Barcelona Activa has been around since 1986. From small businesses to Silicon Valley Besides Barcelona’s City Council, its backers also include the Generalitat of Catalonia and the European Union. So how can one single entity combine two somewhat contradictory ambitions, widespread job creation and top-of-the-line innovation? According to its international business growth manager, Rocio Espartero, Barcelona Activa manages this diversity thanks to filters. Barcelona’s potential Mobile and tech startups for the Mobile World Capital Liked this?

::: COMPLUTECNO ::: Cartera Tecnológica de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid Descripción: Formación y asistencia técnica sobre identificación, formulación, evaluación previa, elaboración de sistemas de seguimiento y evaluación posterior de proyectos de cooperación internacional para el desarrollo. Fig. 1: Manos de trabajadoras en fábricas de ladrillos (Bangladesh). © Trygve Bølstad. ¿Cómo funciona?: Fig. 2: Taller de identificación y formulación en San Salvador. La gestión del ciclo de los proyectos de cooperación para el desarrollo se apoya en el Enfoque del Marco Lógico y en la utilización de técnicas contrastadas para asegurar la participación de las comunidades beneficiarias en todas las fases de las intervenciones. Ante demandas de distintos agentes de la cooperación internacional -administraciones públicas de España, Europa y países del sur, ONGs, empresas de consultoría, etc.- se diseña un proceso concreto de formación o de asistencia técnica para la fase del ciclo específica que se pretenda consolidar. Ventajas: ¿Dónde se ha desarrollado? Y además:

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