Auteur : Adrian GERBER, Innovation Consultant, Berne, Suisse, Atizo
Réalisé lors du 4ème Atelier Microtechniques & Innovation de Minnovarc, les 11 et 12 octobre 2012, Ste-Croix, Suisse
Plus d'infos sur www.minnovarc.fr
Collaborate workshop on how to build a process of Continuous Innovation with employees. Delivered by AJ Kennedy at Spigit Innovation Forums in Melbourne and Sydney in July 2017.
Madeline Smith, Presentation TCI2018 European Conference SofiaTCI Network
This document summarizes key points from a conference on designing university-business collaborations for innovation. It discusses how innovation emerges from collaborative conversations and networks. Design is presented as the process for creating preferable futures and innovations by fashioning engagements between people and things. Experience labs are highlighted as a way to foster cultures of innovation through individual, team, and organizational skills development. Case studies show how experience labs have helped develop new products and markets in just 12 months through an iterative testing process involving designers, consultants, patients, and others. The role of design is outlined as a structured creative process focused on user needs and safe iteration to build capabilities and long-term strategies.
Demola is a co-creation platform that brings together talented students, innovative companies, and progressive universities. Students work on multidisciplinary teams to test ideas and create solutions for companies. Demola has created over 70 out-of-the-box solutions and new customer insights for companies. It has also helped turn concepts into concrete demos and provided "second opinions" for in-house development projects. One example project was creating an online platform called "Silta" to better connect a municipality with its residents and support decision making through increased transparency, flexibility, and democracy.
Open Inclusion provides insights from people with diverse perspectives and needs to drive inclusive innovation. They help organizations understand user needs more deeply to create products and services that benefit more people. Their approach prioritizes emerging technologies that solve strong unmet needs, such as sonification of graphs for people who are blind or learn differently. Engaging customers with disabilities in the design process often leads to solutions that are more inclusive and better overall.
This document discusses open innovation and co-creation with external groups. It provides five cases of companies that engaged in open innovation. Case 1 involved using an existing consumer database to get feedback on coffee products. Case 2 was a co-creation process between a coffee brand and a magazine. Case 3 involved a tea brand collaborating on new product development through an online community. Case 4 saw a brand crowdsource new packaging designs. Case 5 partnered with a design academy. The document advocates using external groups like consumers and designers to get new perspectives and that connections with others can be energizing. It promotes drawing on existing networks for open innovation activities.
Strategies for Managing Human Centered Design Projects_CORE Group
The document discusses an initiative that aims to accelerate testing creative solutions to barriers preventing women and children from accessing essential health services. It advocates adopting a design mindset and reframing beneficiaries as consumers to complement existing work. As an example, it outlines the Essential Newborn Care Corps program which rebrands traditional birth attendants as a social enterprise providing home care advice while selling health products, with outputs including training modules and a referral system. It challenges the myth that design is only for products and that organizations can't adopt design due to budget constraints.
Auteur : Adrian GERBER, Innovation Consultant, Berne, Suisse, Atizo
Réalisé lors du 4ème Atelier Microtechniques & Innovation de Minnovarc, les 11 et 12 octobre 2012, Ste-Croix, Suisse
Plus d'infos sur www.minnovarc.fr
Collaborate workshop on how to build a process of Continuous Innovation with employees. Delivered by AJ Kennedy at Spigit Innovation Forums in Melbourne and Sydney in July 2017.
Madeline Smith, Presentation TCI2018 European Conference SofiaTCI Network
This document summarizes key points from a conference on designing university-business collaborations for innovation. It discusses how innovation emerges from collaborative conversations and networks. Design is presented as the process for creating preferable futures and innovations by fashioning engagements between people and things. Experience labs are highlighted as a way to foster cultures of innovation through individual, team, and organizational skills development. Case studies show how experience labs have helped develop new products and markets in just 12 months through an iterative testing process involving designers, consultants, patients, and others. The role of design is outlined as a structured creative process focused on user needs and safe iteration to build capabilities and long-term strategies.
Demola is a co-creation platform that brings together talented students, innovative companies, and progressive universities. Students work on multidisciplinary teams to test ideas and create solutions for companies. Demola has created over 70 out-of-the-box solutions and new customer insights for companies. It has also helped turn concepts into concrete demos and provided "second opinions" for in-house development projects. One example project was creating an online platform called "Silta" to better connect a municipality with its residents and support decision making through increased transparency, flexibility, and democracy.
Open Inclusion provides insights from people with diverse perspectives and needs to drive inclusive innovation. They help organizations understand user needs more deeply to create products and services that benefit more people. Their approach prioritizes emerging technologies that solve strong unmet needs, such as sonification of graphs for people who are blind or learn differently. Engaging customers with disabilities in the design process often leads to solutions that are more inclusive and better overall.
This document discusses open innovation and co-creation with external groups. It provides five cases of companies that engaged in open innovation. Case 1 involved using an existing consumer database to get feedback on coffee products. Case 2 was a co-creation process between a coffee brand and a magazine. Case 3 involved a tea brand collaborating on new product development through an online community. Case 4 saw a brand crowdsource new packaging designs. Case 5 partnered with a design academy. The document advocates using external groups like consumers and designers to get new perspectives and that connections with others can be energizing. It promotes drawing on existing networks for open innovation activities.
Strategies for Managing Human Centered Design Projects_CORE Group
The document discusses an initiative that aims to accelerate testing creative solutions to barriers preventing women and children from accessing essential health services. It advocates adopting a design mindset and reframing beneficiaries as consumers to complement existing work. As an example, it outlines the Essential Newborn Care Corps program which rebrands traditional birth attendants as a social enterprise providing home care advice while selling health products, with outputs including training modules and a referral system. It challenges the myth that design is only for products and that organizations can't adopt design due to budget constraints.
This document discusses fostering innovation in organizations. It argues that culture, systems and processes, and talent are the key ingredients for innovation. Culture provides purpose and vision, systems and processes provide rules and incentives, and talent provides creativity. It also provides suggestions for both long term and short term actions organizations can take to promote innovation, including identifying innovation architects, inspiring employees, enabling free thinking, providing non-pecuniary incentives, fostering networking, and providing innovative project tools.
The document summarizes InnoCentive, an online platform founded in 2000 by Eli Lilly & Co. that connects companies with problems ("seekers") to solvers who can submit solutions. Seekers post challenges in six domains and pay fees, while solvers work independently and anonymously. Challenges include those requiring experimental results, research papers, or brief submissions with guaranteed prizes and no intellectual property transfer. The platform allows for diverse solvers from different backgrounds around the world to collaborate and submit multiple solutions. It provides a lower-cost alternative to internal research and development for startups.
Innovation is seeing things differently and coming up with new ideas, as Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi said. Innovation through new technologies and ideas can increase productivity while using the same resources. However, there are challenges like lack of motivation, being satisfied with the status quo, focusing only on one's own work, and not collaborating with others. To increase innovation, organizations should invest in innovation tasks, create a supportive culture, and recognize innovative ideas from all levels. The key is to invest in innovation, persevere through challenges, and keep striving to achieve breakthroughs.
BrightSpark is an idea management system created by Component Workshop that allows employees and customers to submit innovative ideas and provide feedback. It tracks all ideas, feedback, and votes to ensure details are not lost. Ideas progress through a four step cycle from submission to implementation. BrightSpark offers customization and multiple campaign types to align ideas with business strategies. Component Workshop provides ongoing support to help customers maximize the benefits of BrightSpark.
This document discusses user experience (UX) from three perspectives: for designers, businesses, and dreamers. For designers, it emphasizes empathizing with users and educating others on the value of UX. For businesses, it presents UX as central to marketing and notes that the UX journey involves defining goals and building a path to achieve them. For dreamers, it recommends finding problems, coming up with ideas to solve them, and executing ideas in a unique way to create value.
Quantellia CEO Mark Zangari shows how, in the face of globalization, downsizing, a data deluge, and other factors, today's leaders are facing a new level of managing complexity within public and private organizations. He describes a number of new management approaches and tools that are being used today, whch leverage visual, systems thinking about complex interdependent organizations. As part of the presentation, Zangari discusses a number of micconceptions about the role of data in effective governance and decision-making, along with several best practices for conquering complex environments.
Fujitsu's Activ8 is a customer-centric innovation service that uses a structured framework to help clients address business challenges through collaborative ideation and problem solving. It provides innovation management specialists, access to crowdsourcing software to generate ideas, and bespoke innovation events. The goal is to explore new solutions, select promising concepts, prototype them, and help clients adopt successful innovations. Case studies demonstrate how Activ8 has helped clients in industries like transportation and government to develop ideas and implement solutions.
Leadership requires collaborative innovation to drive companies forward. Innovation provides incremental value to customers at the same cost and is key to growth and survival. Collaboration and co-creation helps mitigate the risk of spending on products and services that do not provide value to customers. Influencing others is more important than authority, as those with influence who can help others will be trusted and followed. Global improvement and influence leads to sustainability.
Anouk Willems from InSites Consulting gave a presentation at the NewMR "Putting the 'Qual' in Qualitative" event on March 28, 2012. She discussed how to bring qualitative research results to life within companies. She advocated for using online moderator-led communities to generate rich consumer data and engage internal stakeholders. She provided 6 tips for sharing insights, including making information easily accessible, using the right format for different audiences, and leveraging both online and offline channels. Her key message was that companies should focus on helping managers develop a "consumer feeling" to match their gut instincts when making decisions.
Are you wired for change? How can digital technology help us solve sustainabi...Forum for the Future
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The Purdue Agile Strategy Lab operates on the frontier of complex systems. We design and implement new tools and frameworks for complex, wicked problems.
This document discusses strategies and how organizations can validate their strategies through a PRUB framework.
1) The PRUB framework defines the core process of organizations as running projects to create results like products and services, which customers and citizens then use to create benefits.
2) A fully validated strategy is one that defines the ideal sub-strategy, provides cause-and-effect evidence that it will work, and demonstrates it is worth the costs and efforts.
3) Validating strategies involves representing them as sub-strategies in the PRUB framework, providing compelling evidence for the links between projects, results, uses and benefits, and showing the benefits outweigh the costs.
Discover a programme that brings together students, entrepreneurs & community groups to develop creative solutions to local challenges.
We help train students to co-design solutions from uncovering local needs with the community to working with them to develop projects that can be taken forward.
We evaluate the insights and impact of the needs & solutions to help public services better understand how to support communities to help each other & use technology.
Designing Your Team and Organization for InnovationTechWell
If innovation is not part of your team or organizational DNA, your company risks falling behind its competitors, losing market share, and demoralizing your best talent. And yet, you cannot create an innovative organization by simply saying “Be innovative” or adding it to the company values statement. Innovation requires a solid understanding of what motivates people and a deep examination of organizational structure, culture, and leadership styles—such as top-down project control or directive leadership—that may be barriers to innovation. Jim Elvidge explores a path to changing such an environment by improving team empowerment and creating an environment where it is safe to fail. Leaders championing this approach of “environment design” present people with a wider range of learning experiences, resulting in increased responsiveness to change, unleashed creativity, and greater job satisfaction. Learn how to use thinking and analysis tools—including double-loop learning and current reality trees—to find and remove your impediments to innovation.
NVIS is a leading manufacturer of clean energy products and training equipment in India. It develops cost-effective and sustainable technology solutions for green energy through innovation. Some of NVIS's clients include educational institutions and homes seeking LED lighting and waste management solutions. While NVIS has a robust business model with patented technologies and engineers, it needs to scale up operations through increased funding for research and development to continue innovating solutions. Moving forward, NVIS should focus on becoming a technology solutions company that customizes solutions for different clients on a project basis to ensure stable long-term growth.
This document announces an innovation workshop hosted by Novak, an international strategic innovation firm. The workshop will take place on April 2, 2018 from 6:00-8:00 pm at We Work in Brickell City Centre, Miami. It will focus on three topics: 1) Moving from biased to meaningful innovation 2) Shifting from conventional to disruptive value 3) Transitioning from weak to robust solutions. Novak's leadership team will introduce principles and tools for people-centric and experience-focused innovation. Participants will learn how to identify underserved customer needs and develop systemic solutions through divergent thinking methods.
In this 2 hr workshop, Novak’s leadership team will introduce participants to the principles and essential tools of people centric & experience focused innovation.
Idea management is the process of receiving, prioritizing, and implementing ideas from employees and customers to improve the business. It involves collecting ideas through various channels, like suggestion boxes or idea management software. The ideas are then sorted by priority and some may be implemented. However, many companies fail to have a clear strategy for managing ideas, which can lead to dissatisfaction if ideas are collected but not acted on. If a company decides to implement idea management, it should define the scope of ideas sought, assign a group to review submissions and recommend ideas, and recognize employees whose ideas are selected.
An extract from one of my lectures on idea management systems. The content of these slides is based both on current research and insights from companies I collaborated with.
Rocking Your On-Campus Law Student InterviewsLawCrossing
This document provides tips for law students to succeed in on-campus interviews. It recommends that students have a compelling story about their career goals and interests to share with interviewers. It also suggests focusing on relevant experiences, demonstrating enthusiasm for the job, and researching the firm. Students should be prepared to discuss weaknesses and how they have developed relevant skills without work experience. Proper preparation includes practicing responses to common questions and having your own questions prepared. Callback interviews involve more evaluative activities over half a day, so maintaining professionalism is important. The overall message is to demonstrate fit for the job and passion for the legal field.
This document discusses fostering innovation in organizations. It argues that culture, systems and processes, and talent are the key ingredients for innovation. Culture provides purpose and vision, systems and processes provide rules and incentives, and talent provides creativity. It also provides suggestions for both long term and short term actions organizations can take to promote innovation, including identifying innovation architects, inspiring employees, enabling free thinking, providing non-pecuniary incentives, fostering networking, and providing innovative project tools.
The document summarizes InnoCentive, an online platform founded in 2000 by Eli Lilly & Co. that connects companies with problems ("seekers") to solvers who can submit solutions. Seekers post challenges in six domains and pay fees, while solvers work independently and anonymously. Challenges include those requiring experimental results, research papers, or brief submissions with guaranteed prizes and no intellectual property transfer. The platform allows for diverse solvers from different backgrounds around the world to collaborate and submit multiple solutions. It provides a lower-cost alternative to internal research and development for startups.
Innovation is seeing things differently and coming up with new ideas, as Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi said. Innovation through new technologies and ideas can increase productivity while using the same resources. However, there are challenges like lack of motivation, being satisfied with the status quo, focusing only on one's own work, and not collaborating with others. To increase innovation, organizations should invest in innovation tasks, create a supportive culture, and recognize innovative ideas from all levels. The key is to invest in innovation, persevere through challenges, and keep striving to achieve breakthroughs.
BrightSpark is an idea management system created by Component Workshop that allows employees and customers to submit innovative ideas and provide feedback. It tracks all ideas, feedback, and votes to ensure details are not lost. Ideas progress through a four step cycle from submission to implementation. BrightSpark offers customization and multiple campaign types to align ideas with business strategies. Component Workshop provides ongoing support to help customers maximize the benefits of BrightSpark.
This document discusses user experience (UX) from three perspectives: for designers, businesses, and dreamers. For designers, it emphasizes empathizing with users and educating others on the value of UX. For businesses, it presents UX as central to marketing and notes that the UX journey involves defining goals and building a path to achieve them. For dreamers, it recommends finding problems, coming up with ideas to solve them, and executing ideas in a unique way to create value.
Quantellia CEO Mark Zangari shows how, in the face of globalization, downsizing, a data deluge, and other factors, today's leaders are facing a new level of managing complexity within public and private organizations. He describes a number of new management approaches and tools that are being used today, whch leverage visual, systems thinking about complex interdependent organizations. As part of the presentation, Zangari discusses a number of micconceptions about the role of data in effective governance and decision-making, along with several best practices for conquering complex environments.
Fujitsu's Activ8 is a customer-centric innovation service that uses a structured framework to help clients address business challenges through collaborative ideation and problem solving. It provides innovation management specialists, access to crowdsourcing software to generate ideas, and bespoke innovation events. The goal is to explore new solutions, select promising concepts, prototype them, and help clients adopt successful innovations. Case studies demonstrate how Activ8 has helped clients in industries like transportation and government to develop ideas and implement solutions.
Leadership requires collaborative innovation to drive companies forward. Innovation provides incremental value to customers at the same cost and is key to growth and survival. Collaboration and co-creation helps mitigate the risk of spending on products and services that do not provide value to customers. Influencing others is more important than authority, as those with influence who can help others will be trusted and followed. Global improvement and influence leads to sustainability.
Anouk Willems from InSites Consulting gave a presentation at the NewMR "Putting the 'Qual' in Qualitative" event on March 28, 2012. She discussed how to bring qualitative research results to life within companies. She advocated for using online moderator-led communities to generate rich consumer data and engage internal stakeholders. She provided 6 tips for sharing insights, including making information easily accessible, using the right format for different audiences, and leveraging both online and offline channels. Her key message was that companies should focus on helping managers develop a "consumer feeling" to match their gut instincts when making decisions.
Are you wired for change? How can digital technology help us solve sustainabi...Forum for the Future
Digital technologies are heralded as enablers of change... but how exactly can they help us solve tricky problems? Find out more here: http://bit.ly/Wg58QW
The Purdue Agile Strategy Lab operates on the frontier of complex systems. We design and implement new tools and frameworks for complex, wicked problems.
This document discusses strategies and how organizations can validate their strategies through a PRUB framework.
1) The PRUB framework defines the core process of organizations as running projects to create results like products and services, which customers and citizens then use to create benefits.
2) A fully validated strategy is one that defines the ideal sub-strategy, provides cause-and-effect evidence that it will work, and demonstrates it is worth the costs and efforts.
3) Validating strategies involves representing them as sub-strategies in the PRUB framework, providing compelling evidence for the links between projects, results, uses and benefits, and showing the benefits outweigh the costs.
Discover a programme that brings together students, entrepreneurs & community groups to develop creative solutions to local challenges.
We help train students to co-design solutions from uncovering local needs with the community to working with them to develop projects that can be taken forward.
We evaluate the insights and impact of the needs & solutions to help public services better understand how to support communities to help each other & use technology.
Designing Your Team and Organization for InnovationTechWell
If innovation is not part of your team or organizational DNA, your company risks falling behind its competitors, losing market share, and demoralizing your best talent. And yet, you cannot create an innovative organization by simply saying “Be innovative” or adding it to the company values statement. Innovation requires a solid understanding of what motivates people and a deep examination of organizational structure, culture, and leadership styles—such as top-down project control or directive leadership—that may be barriers to innovation. Jim Elvidge explores a path to changing such an environment by improving team empowerment and creating an environment where it is safe to fail. Leaders championing this approach of “environment design” present people with a wider range of learning experiences, resulting in increased responsiveness to change, unleashed creativity, and greater job satisfaction. Learn how to use thinking and analysis tools—including double-loop learning and current reality trees—to find and remove your impediments to innovation.
NVIS is a leading manufacturer of clean energy products and training equipment in India. It develops cost-effective and sustainable technology solutions for green energy through innovation. Some of NVIS's clients include educational institutions and homes seeking LED lighting and waste management solutions. While NVIS has a robust business model with patented technologies and engineers, it needs to scale up operations through increased funding for research and development to continue innovating solutions. Moving forward, NVIS should focus on becoming a technology solutions company that customizes solutions for different clients on a project basis to ensure stable long-term growth.
This document announces an innovation workshop hosted by Novak, an international strategic innovation firm. The workshop will take place on April 2, 2018 from 6:00-8:00 pm at We Work in Brickell City Centre, Miami. It will focus on three topics: 1) Moving from biased to meaningful innovation 2) Shifting from conventional to disruptive value 3) Transitioning from weak to robust solutions. Novak's leadership team will introduce principles and tools for people-centric and experience-focused innovation. Participants will learn how to identify underserved customer needs and develop systemic solutions through divergent thinking methods.
In this 2 hr workshop, Novak’s leadership team will introduce participants to the principles and essential tools of people centric & experience focused innovation.
Idea management is the process of receiving, prioritizing, and implementing ideas from employees and customers to improve the business. It involves collecting ideas through various channels, like suggestion boxes or idea management software. The ideas are then sorted by priority and some may be implemented. However, many companies fail to have a clear strategy for managing ideas, which can lead to dissatisfaction if ideas are collected but not acted on. If a company decides to implement idea management, it should define the scope of ideas sought, assign a group to review submissions and recommend ideas, and recognize employees whose ideas are selected.
An extract from one of my lectures on idea management systems. The content of these slides is based both on current research and insights from companies I collaborated with.
Rocking Your On-Campus Law Student InterviewsLawCrossing
This document provides tips for law students to succeed in on-campus interviews. It recommends that students have a compelling story about their career goals and interests to share with interviewers. It also suggests focusing on relevant experiences, demonstrating enthusiasm for the job, and researching the firm. Students should be prepared to discuss weaknesses and how they have developed relevant skills without work experience. Proper preparation includes practicing responses to common questions and having your own questions prepared. Callback interviews involve more evaluative activities over half a day, so maintaining professionalism is important. The overall message is to demonstrate fit for the job and passion for the legal field.
This document provides an overview and analysis of Alcoa Inc. (AA), a global leader in aluminum production. It summarizes Alcoa's business segments, financial performance, and stock performance. It then analyzes several macroeconomic factors that influence Alcoa's business, including GDP growth, interest rates, infrastructure spending, exchange rates, and economic conditions in key markets like China. The analysis recommends a "HOLD" position on Alcoa stock based on valuation models, with a target price range of $30-34 per share based on discounted cash flow and relative valuation comparisons. Macroeconomic factors are expected to modestly benefit Alcoa's business in the near-term.
El teatro romántico se caracteriza por tratar temas como la vida como conflicto, la felicidad imposible y la pasión. Los géneros más cultivados son la poesía lírica y el drama. Los argumentos suelen incluir amores imposibles, rebeldía política o moral, venganza y destinos trágicos. Los personajes son misteriosos y singulares y se sitúan al margen de la sociedad.
This document analyzes Starbucks and provides an overview of the company, its financials, and a recommendation. It summarizes that Starbucks has grown steadily in recent years but growth slowed in 2016. Financial ratios like ROE are positive but current ratio is low. The document recommends holding the stock if the US economy continues to improve since Starbucks is still expanding globally, but risks remain if the US economy declines as Starbucks products are considered luxury goods.
The cooling system uses five basic parts - water jackets, water pump, thermostat, radiator, and fan - to regulate the engine's temperature. The water pump circulates coolant through the water jackets in the engine and then into the radiator, where the coolant is cooled by the airflow of the fan before returning to the engine. The thermostat controls the flow of coolant to maintain optimal engine temperature. The cooling system is needed to prevent overheating and damage to engine parts from high temperatures during operation.
Creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity is characterised by the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions.
The first presentation discussed creating business through circular design. It described a methodology used in workshops to help 10 companies develop circular propositions and implementation roadmaps. The goal is to intervene on a micro level to cause macro-level impact by starting circular entrepreneurship.
The second presentation discussed building design capacity in the public realm. It argued that design can bridge disciplines, support non-professional designers, and build capacity. At the niche level, design can catalyze new initiatives and innovations. At higher levels, design can help organize new services and align niche and regime changes.
The third presentation discussed Active Cues' mission to create 10 million daily moments of happiness by 2025 using technology innovations. It outlined key social challenges in
CLICKNL DRIVE 2019 | Energy and sustainability - designing ecosystemsCLICKNL
Abhigyan Singh presented on social energy exchanges for emerging decentralized neighborhoods. Singh discussed early explorations of energy sharing concepts through gaming and vehicle-to-community studies. More recent work involved setting up people-controlled energy kiosks in two off-grid villages in India to study peer-to-peer energy exchanges. Singh's research identified three types of returns - in-cash, in-kind, and intangible returns. The study found energy exchanges involved complex social and cultural dimensions beyond rational economic transactions. Singh recommended designing energy services that consider various social relations and values and interconnect energy and local economies.
CLICKNL DRIVE 2019 | HEALTH & HEALTHCARE Integrating care into every day lifeCLICKNL
This document summarizes a presentation on using virtual nature to reduce loneliness in elderly individuals. Researchers created different virtual nature scenes varying in spaciousness and tested which scenes were best for social interaction. A study with 96 students found that more spacious scenes were rated higher on social landscape scales. The researchers plan to conduct a future study at an elderly care facility to further test the impact of spacious versus enclosed virtual nature scenes on feelings of social connectedness and loneliness in elderly individuals. The overall goal is to use virtual nature to provide accessible and restorative social experiences for the elderly population.
CLICKNL DRIVE 2018 | 24 OCT | Probing Emerging FuturesCLICKNL
This document summarizes a panel discussion on emerging futures between representatives from Philips Design, TU/e, Design Academy, and an experimental designer. The panel members presented on topics including rethinking value in light of climate change, the proposition that humans must realize we are part of nature's ecosystem, using design fiction to explore potential futures, and the need for interdisciplinary collaboration between design, engineering, and philosophy to stimulate ethical reflection on technologies. During the discussion, points were made about using potential future designs to reflect on technology's relationship with ethics, the need for intense collaboration across disciplines to debate ethics, considering robotics' development in the context of human and natural ecosystems, and using poetry to move beyond Western reductionism.
CLICKNL DRIVE 2018 | 25 OCT | The Best of CHI2018CLICKNL
The document describes the BioFidget system, an augmented fidget spinner for stress detection and respiration training. It senses the user's heart rate variability and respiration through sensors in the spinner without requiring additional wearables. The spinner provides biofeedback on exhalation quality and heart rate variability to guide respiration training. A user study found the BioFidget effective at reducing stress and improving heart rate regulation compared to a baseline. The document discusses the technical validity of the sensing approach and highlights the potential of playful form factors for biofeedback and stress management.
CLICKNL DRIVE 2018 | 25 OCT | Parametric Design to Robotic Additive Manufactu...CLICKNL
This document summarizes a workshop on parametric design for robotic additive manufacturing. The workshop consisted of presentations and exercises on topics such as industrial 3D printing with thermoplastics, parametric modeling techniques, and example applications like printing wind tunnel components and a scaled statue. Attendees participated in a hands-on exercise to design a parametric chair model. The overall workshop demonstrated how parametric design can be combined with robotic 3D printing and mass customization.
CLICKNL DRIVE 2018 | 25 OCT | CIRCO Breakout Products that FlowCLICKNL
This document summarizes a presentation on circular product design and flows. It discusses CIRCO, an organization that helps companies develop circular business products through design workshops and knowledge sharing. It then summarizes a book called "Products that Flow" about fast-moving consumer goods and more sustainable management of product flows. The document outlines a case study of flexible packaging design for liquid soap called "Seepje" that uses recycled plastic and separable labels. It discusses how the designer worked to improve efficiency and enable full recycling. Finally, it poses the question "What is the best Circular Packaging Strategy for Soap?" for discussion among participants.
CLICKNL DRIVE 2018 | 25 OCT | Exploring Clothing Consumption through Design F...CLICKNL
This document discusses clothing consumption and disposal in the Netherlands. It provides statistics on the average number of clothing items purchased, owned, and disposed of by Dutch residents each year. It notes that 40 items are disposed of annually per person, with some items suitable for reuse/resale and some not. The document then asks participants to consider their own wardrobes and how items behave over time. It introduces six fictional "smart wardrobe" services and asks participants to indicate whether they would like, resist, or feel indifferent to each service and why. Participants are also asked to consider if any of the services could help with recent movements or specific items in their own wardrobes.
CLICKNL DRIVE 2018 | 25 OCT | Smart Energy CitiesCLICKNL
The document discusses smart energy cities and taking an integral and human-centered approach. It involves multiple stakeholders working together holistically on energy transition projects at the district level. The process involves 5 phases: 1) setting shared goals with stakeholders, 2) technical and social research, 3) selecting promising scenarios, 4) analyzing scenarios and roadmaps, and 5) implementing investments. Creative producers work with communities to co-design solutions through research, scenario development, communication strategies, and pilot projects. The goal is to empower citizens and create ownership over sustainable energy solutions through an understanding of individual motivations and barriers to change.
CLICKNL DRIVE 2018 | 25 OCT | Circular Packaging: Symtom or Root?CLICKNL
The document discusses several topics related to circular packaging design including using locally sourced residual streams to create new sustainable food networks, recreating packaging, the tools and environment needed for packaging designers in this approach, and successfully recycling designs from the past within other design industries but not necessarily within packaging design. It also provides an example of soup in a pouch being one of the most successful packaging inventions from the 1960s.
CLICKNL DRIVE 2018 | 25 OCT | Learning to Live in an Energy Efficient HomeCLICKNL
This document summarizes a workshop about tools to help residents learn to live in an energy-efficient home after renovations through the 2nd Skin project. The project retrofitted homes with insulation, solar panels, geothermal heat pumps, and ventilation systems. Residents reported initial discomfort with changes but now find the homes more comfortable with stable temperatures. The workshop discussed tools used in the process, including information sessions, construction approval, and technology interfaces. Participants felt listening to what residents do not say is important, and that feedback loops between projects could help residents become ambassadors for energy-efficient renovations.
CLICKNL DRIVE 2018 | 25 OCT | Food for ThoughtCLICKNL
The document discusses pixel farming, which is farming in the digital era using robotics and technology. It describes a proposed PixelFarming Robot that would be an autonomous vehicle for precision farming. Consumers could rent fields and control the robot remotely to plant and harvest crops as needed. The robot would have GPS navigation, solar power, onboard cameras and tools for tasks like weeding and watering. The goal is to make farming more efficient and give consumers direct access to fresh, locally grown food.
CLICKNL DRIVE 2018 | 25 OCT | Redesigning FestivalsCLICKNL
This document discusses innovation festivals and the circular economy. It introduces INNOFEST, which hosts festivals that test innovations. One innovation featured is POPUPCUP, a recyclable and wasp-proof paper cup. POPUPCUP is designed according to circular economy principles using recycled materials that can be recycled again. It provides advantages over plastic and paper cups. The document also discusses DGTL, a circular economy music festival, and includes details on POPUPCUP's materials and functionality. It concludes with a Q&A section on festivals and circular innovations.
CLICKNL DRIVE 2018 | 25 OCT | The Future of Living MaterialsCLICKNL
This document summarizes a conference on living materials and bacterial textiles. It introduces several speakers who discussed designing with bacterial leather, using bacteria to naturally dye textiles instead of harmful chemicals, and a theoretical framework for understanding materials as living systems. One talk addressed moving beyond human-centered design to consider more entangled relationships between humans and other living and non-living materials. Another discussion focused on how the concept of "life" is constructed through language and how different materials claim or are granted legitimacy as living.
CLICKNL DRIVE 2018 | 25 OCT | Design for Sustainability - Past and FutureCLICKNL
This document summarizes discussions from a conference on design for sustainability held in 2018. It discusses how the concepts of sustainability in design have not fundamentally changed since the first such conference in 1990, but focuses on three main topics:
1) Combining inspiring sustainability concepts like circular economy with quantitative metrics like lifecycle assessment.
2) Shifting focus from sustainable products to sustainable consumption and limiting overall resource use and environmental impact.
3) Considering social impacts of products in addition to environmental impacts, using a framework of product social metrics.
The document also briefly summarizes the perspectives shared by several speakers at the conference on their long experience with and visions for sustainable design.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
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