Webbetizers: Interesting Tidbits of Science, Technology & Culture
Empowering your organisation through Innovation ManagementFor more information click HERE75% of CEOs claim that their strongest competitive advantage is unique products and services supported by processes that can power them to market yet only 20% have an innovation management system or a clear “journey-plan” of how to find, select and implement new ideas. Less than half admit that they lack clear cut competencies for innovation.(1)
In support of Singapore’s innovation and productivity drive, The Entheo Network, in partnership with Nanyang Polytechnic have created a hands on, practical programme that will accelerate your ability to manage innovation and bridge this gap. Empowering your organisation through Innovation Management will help you to learn how to create new products and services supported by a robust innovation management processes and an innovative corporate culture.
- Gain knowledge of key innovation concepts and their application into real working life
- Develop entrepreneurial and leadership skills, and become an agent for innovation and change
- Be equipped with the tools, techniques and processes for innovation management
- Know how to implement sustainable innovation and productivity improvement in your organisations
- Receive a certificate of attendance jointly conferred by Nanyang Polytechnic and The Entheo Network
- Successfully pass the first stage of accreditation to be a Six ‘I’s of Innovation™ catalyst
MODULES:Module 1:
What is innovation and understanding yourself as a manager or leader of innovationModule 2:
How innovation ready is your organisation? The role of culture in creating an environment that will support innovationModule 3:
How to Identify and spot opportunities for innovation and how to Ignite new ideasModule 4:
How to Investigate & validate ideas, what is IP how to protect and manage it? How to Invest in building financially viable innovationsModule 5:
How to Implement and make an innovation happen. Creating winning teams and running projects, how to streamline policies and processes and make innovation sustainableModule 6:
How to Improve and extract further value out of an innovation. Measuring success and continuous improvement
The effects of Global Warming has become more apparent in the last few years. Colder winters, longer summers and increasing rainfall are just some of the visible effects. Rising global temperatures and melting ice caps have led to erratic weather patterns and new global environments that humans have to live in and have had no time to adapt to. As this trend continues, it will begin to threaten the way we live and cause humans to reflect at their unsustainable practices.Nature has had more time and opportunity to adapt and co-evolve with the changes in the environment. Animals, plants and microbes have taken over thousands and millions of years to evolve and adapt to various physical and social environments. It has developed its own set of systems, processes and means to survive. The new study of “learning from nature” called biomimicry is beginning to unfold new ideas and innovations for humans.Your challenge is to use biomimicry to develop sustainable habitats, in your country, for living in the face of global warming.
What you’re seeing above are Steve Jobs’s speech notes that he brought with him on January 9, 2007 when he announced the original iPhone, and they are in many ways a telling encapsulation of the man himself. Jobs was a natural showman who needed only the barest outline to announce the changing of the world, and his notes here are so simple that they could have been scrawled on the back of a napkin, but Jobs was also a perfectionist: he had them expertly type set, printed out and bound.
From MIT News;
The new venture, called edX, will provide interactive classes from both Harvard and MIT — for free — to anyone in the world with an Internet connection. But a key goal of the project, Faust said, is “to enhance the educational experience of students who study in our classrooms and laboratories.”The online tools developed for edX will also supplement the lectures, seminars and labs available to MIT’s and Harvard’s own students, and will provide detailed data about how well different parts of lessons are understood and what areas may require further explanation.
It doesn’t matter if you did not receive the best academic training from a top university. A person with less education who has fully developed their EQ, MQ, and BQ can be far more successful than a person with an impressive education who falls short in these other categories.Yes, it is certainly good to be an intelligent, rational thinker and have a high IQ; this is an important asset. But you must realize that it is not enough. Your IQ will help you personally, but EQ, MQ, and BQ will benefit everyone around you as well. If you can master the complexities of these unique and often under-rated forms of intelligence, research tells us you will achieve greater success and be regarded as more professionally competent and capable.
For example, several years ago, I attended a corporate meeting where the vice president spoke about streamlining business practices in the coming year. During the talk, executives around the room nodded in agreement. Afterward, though, many of them discussed what streamlining actually meant. None of the people who had nodded in agreement could exactly define the mechanics ofhow to streamline a business practice.
No matter the scale, discovering your explanatory gaps is essential for aspiring innovatorsAn undiagnosed gap in knowledge means you might not fully understand a problem. That can hinder innovative solutions.
To discover the things you can't explain, take a lesson from teachers. When you instruct someone else, you have to fill the gaps in your own knowledge. But you don't need to wait for the opportunity to teach someone else:Explain concepts to yourself as you learn them.Get in the habit of self-teaching. Your explanations will reveal your own knowledge gaps and identify words and concepts whose meanings aren't clear.Engage others in collaborative learning.Help identify the knowledge gaps of the people around you. Ask them to explain difficult concepts, even if you think everyone understands them. Not only will this help you to work through new ideas, it will occasionally uncover places where your colleagues don't understand critical aspects of an explanation.When you do uncover these gaps, treat them as learning opportunities, not signs of weakness. After all, successful innovation rests on the assumption that you and the people around you have a high-quality understanding of the problem. Sometimes, uncovering the flaw in that assumption will help you find a solution.
