This document discusses how to adapt ideas to people and people to ideas. It provides examples of innovators who adapted ideas to new purposes: Alexander Graham Bell adapted the workings of the ear to invent the telephone; Amar Bhide found most startups adapted ideas from founders' previous work. It also gives examples of innovators who adapted ideas from nature: George de Mestral invented Velcro by studying burrs; an architect designed a naturally cooled building by studying termite mounds. The document advocates adapting existing ideas from other fields or environments to solve new problems.

1. “How to adapt ideas to people
and people to idea”
Alisha Chaudhry
BS (Hons) GCU
Applied Linguistics

2. • Introduction.
• Difference Between “Adopt and Adapt”.
• What is idea?
• Different history maker people examples.
• Conclusion.

3. What is Adapt?
• Make something suitable for a new use or
purpose modify, alter, change, transform,
reshape, remodel, reorganize and etc.

4. What is Adopt?
• Choose to take up or follow an idea, method,
or course of action.

5. Idea
• A thought or suggestion as to a possible
course of action, idea convert into the aim or
purpose of life.

6. Introduction
• “How to adapt ideas to people and people to
idea”. This statement carries a whole
philosophy of people thoughts mean ideas
toward adaptation and then make the thought
into the clear picture of reality according to
the needs and situation of world, country
society and individual people.

7. Different history maker people made
history through ideas
• Adapting ideas that have worked in one
environment and using them in another is one
of the most successful of innovation
techniques. Let’s look at some examples which
relates to this statement “Adapt ideas to
people”

8. Alexander Graham Bell
• Alexander Graham Bell studied the workings
of the human ear. He adapted the idea of the
eardrum vibrating with sounds into the
workings of a metal diaphragm which led to
his invention of the telephone.

9. Amar Bhide
• The motto of the Round Table is adopt, adapt, improve
and it is an excellent guideline for implementing new
ideas in your business. Taking ideas from other
environments and adapting them for use in your
situation is one of the best ways of implementing novel
solutions. Amar Bhide of the Harvard Business School
studied the origin and evolution of new businesses. He
found that over 70% of successful start-ups were based
on ideas that the founders had adopted from their
previous employments. They took a promising idea in a
field they understood and made it better.

10. Samuel Morse
• Samuel Morse was the inventor of morse
code. He encountered a problem sending
signals over long distances on the telegraph –
the signal became attenuated and weak. Then
one day when he was travelling by stagecoach
he noticed how the coach changed horses at
relay stations. He adapted this idea to put in
relay stations for telegraphs that boosted the
signal.

11. George de Mestral
• In 1941 George de Mestral went for a walk with
his dog in the Jura mountains in Switzerland. On
their return he noticed that many plant burrs
were attached to his trousers and to the dog’s
coat. They were hard to remove. He examined
them under the microscope and saw that they
contained tiny hooks that caught in the loops of
his clothes and in the dog’s hair. He developed an
artificial material to mimic nature and in doing so
he invented Velcro.

12. some examples which relates to this
statement “people to idea”
• Very often the best way to innovate is to
borrow someone else’s idea and apply it in
your business. A successful innovation does
not have to be an all-new invention. It just has
to be something new to your needs that is
beneficial.

13. How Linux helped gold mining
• Rob McEwen took over a run-down gold mine in Ontario in Canada, the
Red Lake mine. He was certain that there were good reserves of gold in
the mine but the problem was how to find them.
• At a computer conference he happened to hear about the Linux operating
system and how its success was based on its open source principle –
anyone could see any of the code. Thousands of programmers around the
world analyze, extend and develop Linux code. He decided to borrow this
idea and apply it in the conservative world of gold mining. He published all
the data about the mine on the internet and challenged people to predict
where to drill for gold. His colleagues thought he was crazy – no-one ever
gave away all their mining data. But the internet competition he started,
the Goldcorp challenge, was a great success. The winner used
sophisticated fractal graphics software to analyze the data and accurately
predict where to drill for gold. The output of the mine went up tenfold.

14. How mosquitoes helped doctors
• Doctors had a problem with hypodermic needles.
Patients were afraid of them. Children dreaded them.
The pain the needles caused was not intense but it was
unpleasant and it dissuaded many people from having
important injections. So the doctors asked – who else
has this problem? Who else injects into people and has
solved this problem. The answer was quickly given.
Mosquitoes insert a tiny needle into people and extract
blood. They carry the deadly malaria virus. They go
about their deadly work without being felt. By studying
how the mosquito stings its victims scientists were able
to develop a hypodermic needle that patients do not
feel.

15. How termites helped architects
• Mick Pearce is the architect who designed a retail
building called the Eastgate Centre in Harare,
Zimbabwe. He wanted to keep the building cool
in the hot summers but he wanted to do this with
minimum energy use. He studied how termites
build their mounds which keep remarkably cool.
He designed a natural cooling system that
mimicks the workings of a termite nest. The
building uses one-tenth of the energy of
conventional buildings.

16. Conclusion
• “How to adapt ideas to people and people to
idea”.