MAP The Data Sheet lists all geopolitical entities with populations of 150,000 or more and all members of the UN. These include sovereign states, dependencies, overseas departments, and some territories whose status or boundaries may be undetermined or in dispute. More developed regions, following the UN classification, comprise all of Europe and North America, plus Australia, Japan, and New Zealand. All other regions and countries are classified as less developed. Sub-Saharan Africa: All countries of Africa except the northern African countries of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and Western Sahara. World and Regional Totals: Regional population totals are independently rounded and include small countries or areas not shown. World Population Data Sheets from different years should not be used as a time series. Country-specific notes include: (—) Indicates data unavailable or inapplicable. A date range indicates the most recent data point during that time period.
How to Solve Difficult Problems by Using the Inversion Technique Imagine the most important goal or project you are working on right now. Now, fast forward six months and assume the project has failed. Tell the story of how it happened. What went wrong? What mistakes did you make? How did it fail? This strategy is known as Failure Premortem. So much of strategy is focused on planning future success. The idea, of course, is to develop a plan to prevent failures and prepare for challenges ahead of time. It is a perfect example of the power of Inversion. What is Inversion? The way to use the Inversion Technique is to look at a particular problem from the opposite direction. For example, if you want to be a better manager, then you would ask, “What would someone do each day if they were a terrible manager?” Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi—who, in addition to growing up in a family that really valued the name Jacob, also was a fine mathematician—lived by the motto “man muss immer umkehren,” or loosely translated, “invert, always invert.” Becoming Smart vs. Sex
Étude de faisabilité : méthode en 6 étapes et exemple Pourquoi foncer tête baissée dans l’exécution de votre projet alors que vous pouvez réaliser une étude de faisabilité ? En effet, cette dernière constitue une précieuse alliée pour vérifier en amont si votre projet se révèlera réalisable et rentable, et donc s’il mérite d’être amorcé. Cependant, l’étude de faisabilité effraie encore de nombreux chefs de projet, freinés par son apparente complexité. Alors, comment réaliser une étude de projet facilement ? Mais avant toute chose, petit rappel sur la définition et les objectifs de l’étude de faisabilité.
Management de la créativité Manager la créativité, c’est aussi favoriser la créativité de tous, nous sommes tous dès l'enfance doté de cette compétence. Elle se structure ensuite et se développe par: l’apprentissage d’une méthode complexeune formation spécifiqueun entraînement quotidien de son cœur de compétences et de ses périphériques associés Tous les acteurs de l’organisme sont concernés par l’amélioration de leurs pratiques créatives et le maniement de techniques innovantes pour résoudre des problèmes impossibles posés par les contraintes de la réglementation, les défis de la mondialisation et les exigences liées à la satisfaction du client. Enjeux du management de la créativité[modifier | modifier le code] La créativité consiste à trouver des idées originales, par exemple des solutions de problèmes d’organisation, ou bien de nouveaux produits. Certains mécanismes de la créativité ont été mis en évidence : Utiliser de façon nouvelle des idées anciennes. Innover en équipe[modifier | modifier le code] FreeMind
All you need to know about blockchain, explained simply Many people know it as the technology behind Bitcoin, but blockchain’s potential uses extend far beyond digital currencies. Its admirers include Bill Gates and Richard Branson, and banks and insurers are falling over one another to be the first to work out how to use it. So what exactly is blockchain, and why are Wall Street and Silicon Valley so excited about it? Currently, most people use a trusted middleman such as a bank to make a transaction. Using cryptography to keep exchanges secure, blockchain provides a decentralized database, or “digital ledger”, of transactions that everyone on the network can see. How does it work in practice? In the case of Bitcoin, blockchain stores the details of every transaction of the digital currency, and the technology stops the same Bitcoin being spent more than once. Image: Financial Times Why is it so revolutionary? The technology can work for almost every type of transaction involving value, including money, goods and property. Image: Quartz Share
The Pain of Creating Posted on 28 Jan | 1 comment I have wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember. My most romantic dream about writing is being like Ernest Hemingway living in the Florida Keys, sitting at a typewriter (okay, a computer), writing in the morning, and spending my afternoon and evenings at the pub down the street sharing drinks with locals and tourists. But in the process of contributing to this blog, I am learning that writing is not such an easy task. Drafting original, meaningful pieces is at best difficult and at its worst devastating. In his book The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker writes, “I think taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. One does not have to spend much searching for the word “innovation” in today’s news. References Becker, E. (1973). May, R. (1975). -- Steve Fehl
Liste des types d’innovations possibles. - Defineed Aller au contenu Liste des types d’innovations possibles. “Votre idée est intéressante, mais je ne vois pas où est l’innovation technologique dans votre startup ?” La question est commune après avoir pitché. Une personne s’approche de vous et pose cette question, car vous présentez votre start-up comme innovante, disruptive. Dommage qu’il faille parfois donner subtilement des cours de rattrapage à ceux qui s’affichent omniscients. Si la Startup nation en France prend de l’ampleur – et c’est une très bonne chose –, la vision et les projets d’innovation de chaque start-up sont souvent mal traités. En témoigne cette question qui se voulait insidieuse alors que la start-up n’était pas sur une innovation technologique, mais sur une innovation adjacente ! Découvrons ensemble l’acheminement vers la réussite d’une société, et ce, à travers les différentes formes et degrés de l’innovation. Les différents types d’innovations Toutefois, on peut constater d’autres types, degrés d’innovations. Conclusion
5 ice-breakers for your next brainstorming session Have you ever left a brainstorming session, only to feel that you’ve wasted your time? The solution could lie in how you begin. As PR professionals, we are masters of multitasking. We juggle such tasks as creating communications plans, pitching reporters the latest breaking story, and editing a presentation, all while thumbing through emails on our smartphones and updating our Twitter feeds. It’s no wonder that when we enter a brainstorm session, our minds aren’t always fully engaged or ready to spout out creativity on demand. Ice-breakers are short activities at the beginning of the session meant to calm the mind and usher in creative thinking. [RELATED: Link creative communications to the goals of your organization with this one-day workshop.] Here are my top five brainstorm ice-breakers: • The brick: Ask your group to think about an average red brick. (Image via)
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Creative People Say No A Hungarian psychology professor once wrote to famous creators asking them to be interviewed for a book he was writing. One of the most interesting things about his project was how many people said “no.” Management writer Peter Drucker: “One of the secrets of productivity (in which I believe whereas I do not believe in creativity) is to have a VERY BIG waste paper basket to take care of ALL invitations such as yours — productivity in my experience consists of NOT doing anything that helps the work of other people but to spend all one’s time on the work the Good Lord has fitted one to do, and to do well.” Secretary to novelist Saul Bellow: “Mr Bellow informed me that he remains creative in the second half of life, at least in part, because he does not allow himself to be a part of other people’s ‘studies.’ ” Photographer Richard Avedon: “Sorry — too little time left.” Secretary to composer György Ligeti: “He is creative and, because of this, totally overworked. People who create know this.