The document provides an overview and introduction to the concepts of innovation and future thinking. It summarizes a book that describes the author's road trip to interview experts and learn about innovation methods.
The summary is as follows:
1) The book details the author's journey traveling to different cities to interview people from companies at the forefront of innovation and future studies.
2) Through these interviews and case studies, the book aims to define innovation, identify trends, and explain how companies use trends and methods like design thinking to create innovative products and strategies.
3) It also describes how trends can be transformed into strategic assets using approaches such as strategic foresight and planning to help organizations innovate.
Ivory Coast Private Health Sector Assessment FinalHeidi Jugenitz
USAID is the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential.
Marketing Plan for Life Insurance by Growth ChannelGrowth Channel
This free marketing plan is prepared by Growth Channel for a life insurance company. Create your personalized marketing plan on https://growthchannel.io
Horizon Scan: ICT and the Future of RetailEricsson
A research report from Ericsson and Imperial College London examines how near-ubiquitous access to ICT and information is transforming relationships between consumers and retailers.
Data Governance Takes a Village (So Why is Everyone Hiding?)DATAVERSITY
Data governance represents both an obstacle and opportunity for enterprises everywhere. And many individuals may hesitate to embrace the change. Yet if led well, a governance initiative has the potential to launch a data community that drives innovation and data-driven decision-making for the wider business. (And yes, it can even be fun!). So how do you build a roadmap to success?
This session will gather four governance experts, including Mary Williams, Associate Director, Enterprise Data Governance at Exact Sciences, and Bob Seiner, author of Non-Invasive Data Governance, for a roundtable discussion about the challenges and opportunities of leading a governance initiative that people embrace. Join this webinar to learn:
- How to build an internal case for data governance and a data catalog
- Tips for picking a use case that builds confidence in your program
- How to mature your program and build your data community
Ivory Coast Private Health Sector Assessment FinalHeidi Jugenitz
USAID is the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential.
Marketing Plan for Life Insurance by Growth ChannelGrowth Channel
This free marketing plan is prepared by Growth Channel for a life insurance company. Create your personalized marketing plan on https://growthchannel.io
Horizon Scan: ICT and the Future of RetailEricsson
A research report from Ericsson and Imperial College London examines how near-ubiquitous access to ICT and information is transforming relationships between consumers and retailers.
Data Governance Takes a Village (So Why is Everyone Hiding?)DATAVERSITY
Data governance represents both an obstacle and opportunity for enterprises everywhere. And many individuals may hesitate to embrace the change. Yet if led well, a governance initiative has the potential to launch a data community that drives innovation and data-driven decision-making for the wider business. (And yes, it can even be fun!). So how do you build a roadmap to success?
This session will gather four governance experts, including Mary Williams, Associate Director, Enterprise Data Governance at Exact Sciences, and Bob Seiner, author of Non-Invasive Data Governance, for a roundtable discussion about the challenges and opportunities of leading a governance initiative that people embrace. Join this webinar to learn:
- How to build an internal case for data governance and a data catalog
- Tips for picking a use case that builds confidence in your program
- How to mature your program and build your data community
THE CX-FACTOR: UNRAVELLING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE LEADERSHIPsinnerschrader
Customer expectations are increasing and crossing sector boundaries. Knowing your customers’ needs is key for differentiation and loyalty for most organizations. Employees need to be empowered, new business models developed and new partnerships forged. But where does CX belong in a company? How do we measure it? And more importantly, what does it take to deliver great customer experience across the entire organization?
Camilla Eckerdal is Head of CX Design at one of the world’s leading Telco’s – Telia and Stefan Moritz is VP Customer Experience at one of the world’s top-ranking design and innovation consultancies – Veryday.
How multi-sided platform business models disrupt existing markets and impact producer and consumer. Does a digital ego exist in the platform economies? The platform owner controls demand and supply. The consumer loses his freedom of choice.
TREND-DRIVEN INNOVATION: TURNING TRENDS INTO INNOVATIONS!sinnerschrader
In this interactive workshop, TrendWatching’s Senior Trend Analyst Vicki Loomes shows you how to turn consumer trends into concrete new innovations ideas for your business. Using the simple Consumer Trends Canvas ideation tool, you’ll see how easy it is to go from a consumer trend to an idea for a new product, service, campaign or business model. Come ready for a super-fun session; leave with a great new idea! And an innovation framework you and your team can use time after time!
AREAS OF INNOVATION: MIXED REALITY IN THE INDUSTRY AND OUR EVERYDAY LIFEsinnerschrader
The arrival of the HoloLens marks a turning point in creating applications that enrich the real world with virtual objects. The device’s immersive experience, which is referred to as Mixed Reality, opens up an entire world of potential uses in industrial enterprises as well as our everyday lives. Holograms not only enrich our environment – interaction with holograms also facilitates our daily activities. In this session we will give you an overview of what sets the HoloLens apart from other Augmented and Virtual Reality devices, what it can do and what you can do with it. We will also provide an outlook on the use cases we see for the device and discuss your own ideas for the HoloLens. And finally we would like to give you the opportunity for a short hands-on demo.
Which will be the trends that David Mattin and his team at Trendwatching will define as the most important for 2017? Be among the first to know, what trend scouts all around the world found out about the next most relevant (as opposed to most hyped) trends in the world.
Branding is evolving, after the 20th century dominated by corporate branding and Lovemarks a new kind of brand has risen: Superhero brands.
Enhanced by a more connected world where individuals have more power to communicate than ever before, the old way to create identities is declining. After studying 250 brands we have the pleasure to share where we are in this new way to create brands shaped for the 21st century
HUMAN 2.0 – HOW AI WILL TRANSFORM THE WAY WE WORKsinnerschrader
Building a successful team in this new world of work requires radical thinking, out-of-the-box ideas and very iterative implementation techniques to really get things to work. Join Claire Burge as she explores concepts like abandoning email entirely, forgetting about performance management and flipping goals on their head as a few of the mechanisms that make teams, products and companies come alive.
FILLING IN THE GAPS – DESIGN INSIGHTS (Workshop)sinnerschrader
As designers we often build models of the people we are building for and their problems we are trying to solve. But how often do we understand our own models, and our own model making? What happens if we consciously uncover the gaps and differences between the our own individual models and those belonging to the people we are working with? What would be the benefit? In this talk Jason will explore how understanding how we build models — taking signals from our environment and experience, pattern matching and how we fill in the gaps — can allow us to build better models, collaborate more effectively, be more creative, and ultimately connect more effectively with the people we are serving by building products.
MASS VIRTUAL REALITY MARKETING AIN’T ROCKET SCIENCEsinnerschrader
Google Cardboards (Virtual Reality Viewers made from cardboard) are not for nerds, but for the the masses. Put your phone in and you are ready for the new world: Virtual Reality. 16 million Cardboards are world-wide in circulation. That are more than 80% of all VR Viewers out there.
Without a doubt, Virtual Reality Marketing will be/is in fact an important topic. Part of the customer journey already takes place there. Virtual Reality shops, travel bookings, user generated content, VR concerts, VR analytics,… are happening right now.
In this workshop we will show you the state of the art, examples, best practices and future trends focused on mass virtual reality marketing with the Google Cardboard.
Charge your phones and get ready! Cardboards will be provided.
https://mrcardboard.eu/next-conf-workshop-mass-virtual-reality-marketing-no-rocket-science/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMslikjhqQM&feature=youtu.be
Jobs to be done: Una metodología que ha revolucionado la forma en que las empresas entienden las necesidades de sus clientes. Este es el resumen de la sesión donde aprendimos a ponerla en práctica, con casos reales de nuestros miembros del Club de la Innovación.
[eBook] 4 Cosas que todas las empresas deben saber sobre disrupción Innovare
Las empresas enfocan su tiempo y recursos en alcanzar las metas de corto plazo, sin darse cuenta que las reglas del juego están cambiando dramáticamente en todas las industrias. Si no actúan pronto, podrían ser víctimas de la disrupción. ¿Está su negocio preparado?
Escríbanos hoy mismo a info@quieroinnovar.com para conversar sobre sus retos más urgentes y diseñar una propuesta a la medida de su organización.
Innovasjon! - implikasjoner for lederutvikling - HR Norges Kompetansedagen...Engage // Innovate
Innovasjon! Implikasjoner for lederutvikling
80 % av spurte ledere ønsker mer innovasjon. Til tross for dette har kun de færreste bedrifter en definert innovasjonsstrategi. Ledere og bedrifter mangler verktøyene. HR-avdelinger verden over famler i dag for å finne de riktige menneskene, de riktige verktøyene og bygge den riktige kulturen for innovasjon. I foredraget får du presentert utfordrende perspektiver på hvordan du kan trene innovative ledere, og bygge en kultur for innovasjon og nytenkning.
Christian Rangen, Partner i Engage// Innovate, og Høyskolelektor ved Handelshøyskolen BI, og forfatter.
Foredrag til Kompetansedagene 2012.
Twitter: #kd12
Kompetansedagene 2012
Dato: 23.-24. mai
Sted: Bjørvika konferansesenter, Oslo Atrium, Dronning Eufemias gate 6
Design Thinking as new strategic tool. Presentation made to spark the discussion about innovation & inspiration and new business opportunities. And how to introduce Design Thinking as a strategic tool in your company.
The smartest people in innovation and intrapreneurship from companies like Phillip Morris, Gap, HP, Salesforce, Nike, Cisco Univision, and dozens of other companies assembled to talk about what real innovation at scale looks like. This ebook contains a few of our takeaways. For more information, contact us at innovation@gapingvoid.com
THE CX-FACTOR: UNRAVELLING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE LEADERSHIPsinnerschrader
Customer expectations are increasing and crossing sector boundaries. Knowing your customers’ needs is key for differentiation and loyalty for most organizations. Employees need to be empowered, new business models developed and new partnerships forged. But where does CX belong in a company? How do we measure it? And more importantly, what does it take to deliver great customer experience across the entire organization?
Camilla Eckerdal is Head of CX Design at one of the world’s leading Telco’s – Telia and Stefan Moritz is VP Customer Experience at one of the world’s top-ranking design and innovation consultancies – Veryday.
How multi-sided platform business models disrupt existing markets and impact producer and consumer. Does a digital ego exist in the platform economies? The platform owner controls demand and supply. The consumer loses his freedom of choice.
TREND-DRIVEN INNOVATION: TURNING TRENDS INTO INNOVATIONS!sinnerschrader
In this interactive workshop, TrendWatching’s Senior Trend Analyst Vicki Loomes shows you how to turn consumer trends into concrete new innovations ideas for your business. Using the simple Consumer Trends Canvas ideation tool, you’ll see how easy it is to go from a consumer trend to an idea for a new product, service, campaign or business model. Come ready for a super-fun session; leave with a great new idea! And an innovation framework you and your team can use time after time!
AREAS OF INNOVATION: MIXED REALITY IN THE INDUSTRY AND OUR EVERYDAY LIFEsinnerschrader
The arrival of the HoloLens marks a turning point in creating applications that enrich the real world with virtual objects. The device’s immersive experience, which is referred to as Mixed Reality, opens up an entire world of potential uses in industrial enterprises as well as our everyday lives. Holograms not only enrich our environment – interaction with holograms also facilitates our daily activities. In this session we will give you an overview of what sets the HoloLens apart from other Augmented and Virtual Reality devices, what it can do and what you can do with it. We will also provide an outlook on the use cases we see for the device and discuss your own ideas for the HoloLens. And finally we would like to give you the opportunity for a short hands-on demo.
Which will be the trends that David Mattin and his team at Trendwatching will define as the most important for 2017? Be among the first to know, what trend scouts all around the world found out about the next most relevant (as opposed to most hyped) trends in the world.
Branding is evolving, after the 20th century dominated by corporate branding and Lovemarks a new kind of brand has risen: Superhero brands.
Enhanced by a more connected world where individuals have more power to communicate than ever before, the old way to create identities is declining. After studying 250 brands we have the pleasure to share where we are in this new way to create brands shaped for the 21st century
HUMAN 2.0 – HOW AI WILL TRANSFORM THE WAY WE WORKsinnerschrader
Building a successful team in this new world of work requires radical thinking, out-of-the-box ideas and very iterative implementation techniques to really get things to work. Join Claire Burge as she explores concepts like abandoning email entirely, forgetting about performance management and flipping goals on their head as a few of the mechanisms that make teams, products and companies come alive.
FILLING IN THE GAPS – DESIGN INSIGHTS (Workshop)sinnerschrader
As designers we often build models of the people we are building for and their problems we are trying to solve. But how often do we understand our own models, and our own model making? What happens if we consciously uncover the gaps and differences between the our own individual models and those belonging to the people we are working with? What would be the benefit? In this talk Jason will explore how understanding how we build models — taking signals from our environment and experience, pattern matching and how we fill in the gaps — can allow us to build better models, collaborate more effectively, be more creative, and ultimately connect more effectively with the people we are serving by building products.
MASS VIRTUAL REALITY MARKETING AIN’T ROCKET SCIENCEsinnerschrader
Google Cardboards (Virtual Reality Viewers made from cardboard) are not for nerds, but for the the masses. Put your phone in and you are ready for the new world: Virtual Reality. 16 million Cardboards are world-wide in circulation. That are more than 80% of all VR Viewers out there.
Without a doubt, Virtual Reality Marketing will be/is in fact an important topic. Part of the customer journey already takes place there. Virtual Reality shops, travel bookings, user generated content, VR concerts, VR analytics,… are happening right now.
In this workshop we will show you the state of the art, examples, best practices and future trends focused on mass virtual reality marketing with the Google Cardboard.
Charge your phones and get ready! Cardboards will be provided.
https://mrcardboard.eu/next-conf-workshop-mass-virtual-reality-marketing-no-rocket-science/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMslikjhqQM&feature=youtu.be
Jobs to be done: Una metodología que ha revolucionado la forma en que las empresas entienden las necesidades de sus clientes. Este es el resumen de la sesión donde aprendimos a ponerla en práctica, con casos reales de nuestros miembros del Club de la Innovación.
[eBook] 4 Cosas que todas las empresas deben saber sobre disrupción Innovare
Las empresas enfocan su tiempo y recursos en alcanzar las metas de corto plazo, sin darse cuenta que las reglas del juego están cambiando dramáticamente en todas las industrias. Si no actúan pronto, podrían ser víctimas de la disrupción. ¿Está su negocio preparado?
Escríbanos hoy mismo a info@quieroinnovar.com para conversar sobre sus retos más urgentes y diseñar una propuesta a la medida de su organización.
Innovasjon! - implikasjoner for lederutvikling - HR Norges Kompetansedagen...Engage // Innovate
Innovasjon! Implikasjoner for lederutvikling
80 % av spurte ledere ønsker mer innovasjon. Til tross for dette har kun de færreste bedrifter en definert innovasjonsstrategi. Ledere og bedrifter mangler verktøyene. HR-avdelinger verden over famler i dag for å finne de riktige menneskene, de riktige verktøyene og bygge den riktige kulturen for innovasjon. I foredraget får du presentert utfordrende perspektiver på hvordan du kan trene innovative ledere, og bygge en kultur for innovasjon og nytenkning.
Christian Rangen, Partner i Engage// Innovate, og Høyskolelektor ved Handelshøyskolen BI, og forfatter.
Foredrag til Kompetansedagene 2012.
Twitter: #kd12
Kompetansedagene 2012
Dato: 23.-24. mai
Sted: Bjørvika konferansesenter, Oslo Atrium, Dronning Eufemias gate 6
Design Thinking as new strategic tool. Presentation made to spark the discussion about innovation & inspiration and new business opportunities. And how to introduce Design Thinking as a strategic tool in your company.
The smartest people in innovation and intrapreneurship from companies like Phillip Morris, Gap, HP, Salesforce, Nike, Cisco Univision, and dozens of other companies assembled to talk about what real innovation at scale looks like. This ebook contains a few of our takeaways. For more information, contact us at innovation@gapingvoid.com
Common Innovation Myths (World Usability Day)Effective
From Green Screens to Lone Genius: Common Innovation Myths. Presented by EffectiveUI’s Steve Fors and Art Chinda at BNY Mellon’s World Usability Day celebration on November 12, 2015. Dispelling innovation myths, what innovation really is, the process of innovation and how to avoid innovation pitfalls.
How organisations are considering their audience in business decisionsEmpathy
Empathy set out to explore how NZ organisations are learning about their audience, and how they’re using the resulting information to make business decisions.
We talked to 55 of New Zealand's best organisations, both private and public sector. This is what we found...
Here are the seven different source of Innovation: Unexpected, Incongruity, Necessity, Demographics, Market structure change, Changing the perception, New knowledge.
To know more details, visit us at : https://mitidinnovation.com/recreation/what-are-the-different-sources-of-innovation/
Innomantra Viewpoint - Building Moonshots : May-Jun 2024.pdfInnomantra
Building Moonshots
In today's rapidly evolving world, many industries have experienced disruption or are on the cusp of one. While organisations often discuss the importance of innovation and disruption for growth, it's not uncommon to find ourselves defaulting to familiar patterns and maintaining the status quo. To thrive amidst this change, businesses of all sizes must adopt strategic foresight not as an option but as an essential strategy.
Developing strategic foresight enables organizations to anticipate and proactively respond to future challenges, ensuring they remain adaptable and resilient in an ever-changing landscape. By moving beyond "business as usual" thinking and embracing innovative approaches, companies can position themselves for long-term success.
Thoughts on open innovation sandro morghen yutongoSandro Morghen
English version of my observations and conclusions on Open Innovation.
Presented at Hochschule Lucerne, Switzerland on Ocotober 3rd, 2012.
Interesting questions from students were:
Question: Why do you pay innovators for their time/effort rather than to follow the winner takes it all approach? What if people performe weak in a process?
Answer: Because in our process it is not possible to allocate one single author to an idea. The creative content is based on our process setup, a collective result. This is why we pay everybody equally. We don't see Innovation as a game/contest, we see it rather as a form of crowd labour. Being is hard work and it doesn't take a genius. Based on the fact that all innovators answer a whole set of subquestions throughout the process, we can diffuse the risk of receiving bad content from one person. After all, it's just not fair. In our tests we weren't facing quality issues, but of course, had to deal with people who were trying to misuse the system. However, this issue remains manageable with our platform and approach. In our tests we measured about 5% of participants who tried to add random/sabotage content. We are very convinced that we can bring this number with the right quality management tools.
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Question: Are you already online?
Answer: We have a functional prototype which is online but we are going to take it down as we are finalizing our commercial version of yutongo.
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Question: Are you giving support to customers with setting up a project?
Answer: Not in a consulting sense. But the app is based on a step-by-step process and we put all our strength and own creativity in reducing complexitiy and the self explanatory character of the website. You shouldn't be an expert to setup a project with yutongo.
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And a bunch of more questions I unfortunately can't remember. Thanks Hochschule Lucerne for having me and for asking questions. Asking question is very good advisor if you are planning to be creative. Creativity starts with asking the right questions!
Best!
Sandro Morghen, CEO & Co-Founder of yutongo
Why yesterdays approach to innovation wont help us in the future slide shareTheThinkingHotel
Thought-provocative and inspiring presentation by John Boult, at "the Moon" the evening before Change Play Business started. Great examples of what is changing, was unthinkable for established businesses, and caused deep shifts in our world...
Thank you John Boult for such inspiration, and thank you viewer for exploring ideas with us!
Remote Healthcare bezeichnet die Formen der Gesundheitsversorgung, die räumliche Distanzen überbrücken. Innovative Diagnoseinstrumente erlauben dem Patienten die selbstständige Messung seiner Vitaldaten, die in Echtzeit an den Hausarzt übermittelt werden. Die Fokuszielgruppe für diese vernetzte Fernüberwachung sind ältere, unmobile oder ländlich wohnende Personen.
Viele der Onlinedienste werden zunehmend aber auch für jüngere Menschen attraktiv. Immer populärer wird die Gesundheitsberatung per Videochat oder mit speziellen Chatbots, womit vor allem psychotherapeutische Ansätze abgebildet werden. In Zukunft werden intelligente Pflaster Auskunft über die Wundheilung geben, während KI-Diagnostik und selbstfahrende Mini-Kliniken Gesundheitsbedürfnisse flexibel befriedigen.
*** futuregram.trendone.com ***
Chatbots sind Software, die mit Menschen Dialoge führen kann. Die dritte Ausgabe des Futuregrams befasst sich mit dem Trendthema Chatbots. Best Practice Beispiele zeigen verschiedene Bereiche von Conversational Commerce bis zu Human Resources auf, in denen Chatbots schon heute zum Einsatz kommen. Neben den Hürden der Nutzerakzeptanz und der technologischen Machbarkeit, werden mögliche Zukunftsszenarien betrachtet, die es erlauben die Auswirkungen auf das eigene Geschäftsfeld zu analysieren.
*** Ideen zum Mitnehmen: futuregram.trendone.com/#opportunityoutlook ***
Zahlreiche aktuelle Best-Practices zu den Trendthemen 2016: IoT Marketing, VR Lifestyle, Video Live Streaming, Blockchain, Continuity Services und Cruelty Freeness.
In der zweiten Ausgabe des Futuregrams steht ein Markt- und Playerüberblick zum Trendthema Virtual Reality im Fokus. In qualitativen Interviews geben fünf Experten, u.a. Stephan Otto vom Fraunhofer IIS und Sara Lisa Vogl von VR-Nerds, ihre Einschätzungen zu Anwendungsfeldern und der Zukunft von VR. Abschließend macht das Futuregram anschaulich, in welchen Branchen bereits innovative Einsatzmöglichkeiten bestehen.
Wir richten unseren Blick bereits auf das neue Jahr und auf die Themen, die uns beschäftigen werden. Nachstehend lesen Sie unsere sieben Trends für 2016 - manche davon sind neu, manche davon bereits bekannter, aber hoch relevant.
Trendone Futuregram #1: Video Live StreamingTRENDONE GmbH
Mit dem Futuregram bietet TRENDONE ein neues Insights-Format, das Trendphänomene erfahrbar macht. Methoden wie Trend und Desk Research gepaart mit qualitativen Nutzerinterviews ermöglichen einen ganzheitlichen thematischen Zugang zu aktuellen Entwicklungen.
In der aktuellen Ausgabe des Futuregrams wird das Thema Video Live Streaming in den Fokus gerückt. Neben einem umfassenden Markt- und Playerüberblick werden Nutzungsmotive und Anwendungsszenarien unterschiedlicher Zielgruppen für verschiedene Plattformen analysiert. Das Futuregram liefert Consumer Insights für die Nutzung von Video Live Streaming Plattformen im privaten wie auch im professionellen Kontext.
Vor genau einem Jahr haben wir zahlreiche Micro-Trends vorgestellt, die die Bedeutung von Virtual Reality für Kunst, Werbung und für News aufzeigen sollten. Das vergangene Jahr ist mit vielen weiteren innovativen Anwendungen ins Land gezogen, doch noch immer gibt es in Deutschland und Österreich kein Head-Mounted-Display zu kaufen. Höchste Zeit, ein paar Fragen zu stellen.
Delivering Micro-Credentials in Technical and Vocational Education and TrainingAG2 Design
Explore how micro-credentials are transforming Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) with this comprehensive slide deck. Discover what micro-credentials are, their importance in TVET, the advantages they offer, and the insights from industry experts. Additionally, learn about the top software applications available for creating and managing micro-credentials. This presentation also includes valuable resources and a discussion on the future of these specialised certifications.
For more detailed information on delivering micro-credentials in TVET, visit this https://tvettrainer.com/delivering-micro-credentials-in-tvet/
it describes the bony anatomy including the femoral head , acetabulum, labrum . also discusses the capsule , ligaments . muscle that act on the hip joint and the range of motion are outlined. factors affecting hip joint stability and weight transmission through the joint are summarized.
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Normal Labour/ Stages of Labour/ Mechanism of LabourWasim Ak
Normal labor is also termed spontaneous labor, defined as the natural physiological process through which the fetus, placenta, and membranes are expelled from the uterus through the birth canal at term (37 to 42 weeks
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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their know-how in the fields of future studies,
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scanning
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GOT THE TRENDS. WHAT NOW? Trend Consulting
Future Illustration
The Innovation Cockpit
Scenarios & Wild Cards
Design Thinking
ideation
178
HOW TO BUILD STRATEGIC FUTURES? Stepping into strategic stuff
Forecasting
Strategic Foresight
Strategic Planning
transformation
222
A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF INNOVATION? Watch Think Interpret Act
LaFutura
The Innovation Alliance
A new nature of innovation
the
f u t u r e n av i g at o r
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ROAD TRIP PROPS The Trend and Future Dictionary
Acknowledgements
Sources
Index
About the author & TrendONE
f i n a l ly
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// WHAT CAN THIS BOOK DO?
Road Trip to Innovation – How I came to understand Future Thinking is a book
about understanding ways of approaching and building innovation. The
road trip itself is part of the narrative of the book as I travel from city to
city, interviewing people in order to find out, together with you dear reader,
the following: what does innovation encompass, how to spot trends, how
to use trends for creating innovative products, services and strategies, how
companies approach innovation in terms of method (e.g.: design thinking,
trend consulting) and how are trends transformed in a strategic asset inside
companies (e.g.: strategic foresight, strategic planning, forecasting).
The book will offer an introduction into the field of future studies and targets
to raise awareness of the innovation and trend research industry. It will explain
complicated notions in easy language and with a friendly approach. Road Trip
to Innovation – How I came to understand Future Thinking also has educational
purposes for students and trainees; it offers a holistic view on methods and
tools for building innovation to young managers setting up innovation strategy
in their companies and furthermore, it is a good introduction to the trends and
innovations industry for anybody who is interested in the topic.
My findings are based on literature review and data drawn from interviews and
case studies of companies in Europe and the United States. The interviews were
conducted with companies that encompass a broad spectrum of approaches and
with people of varied backgrounds, as I believe in the power of poly-social groups.
Why all these companies and why these people? There is no financial reason.
They were either found by natural research (a.k.a. appeared first in the
Google search engine) or recommended by Nils Müller, as he is the engine
behind this book, mentoring me and connecting me with people from the
industry. There is no advertising reason; they are just some examples out of
several interesting companies that are out there.
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creative
idea
The Future Navigator that stands for all the contents of this book with
methods, tools and applications of the innovation process was created and
inserted in this book at the end. It started as a plain piece of paper with
No.02
two arrows that cross each other. It was gradually filled with the approaches
presented in this book in order to start a conversation regarding their
meaning and purpose. It can be looked at as a chess table. Anybody who has
additional information and strong motivations can modify it.
Road Trip to Innovation – How I came to understand Future Thinking is the
fruit of my thinking on all the aforementioned subjects: It is based on the
innovation
literature that I’ve read and the fascinating and intelligent people that I’ve
spoken with. As we are all different, special and unique persons, anyone
could write this book in their own way and interpret things according to
their own dimensions. This is a first published wave from the sea of opinions.
No.03
No.04 roadtrip to innovation
6.
7. all on board?
The Basics
What is innovation? 12
The future thinking mindset 16
Trends 22
The Diffusion Theory 29
Tensta Konsthall by frontdesign.se
8. 12 the basics
// WHAT IS INNOVATION?
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1 the introduction of something new;
2 a n e w i d e a , m e t h o d , o r d e v i c e : n ov e lt y.
Innovation is a change; it is “new stuff that is made useful” as Max McKeon
writes in his book The Truth About Innovation. Therefore, the innovation
process, in this book, refers to the journey one has to make in order to obtain
a new, cool, innovative idea and how to manage it. In a nutshell, it is about
how to get the idea and what you can do with it to make it valuable.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
report on the New Nature of Innovation states that a new nature of innovation
is emerging. How? “Innovation is no longer mainly about science and
technology. Firms can innovate in other ways. Co-creation, user involvement,
environmental and societal challenges increasingly drive innovation today.
Collaborative, global networking and new public private partnerships are
becoming crucial elements in companies’ innovation process.”
In the early 1990s innovation equaled product development; this approach
was actually much too narrow. But the modern approach is also problematic
because the plasticity of this term turned the meaning of innovation into
a catch phrase.
Nowadays, everything that is providing value for a company is being
referred to as an innovation. For some companies it may be as simple as
gathering around for a pizza on a Friday night at the office in order to create
a better organizational climate thus internally providing a better basis for
innovation and creativity. As for others, it cannot be called innovation until
the brilliant idea that provides value is marketed – like creating an app that
tells you the ingredients of the pizza just by scanning the barcode of the box.
So, it all depends on how deep you go into the term of innovation, if just
about anything can be interpreted as an innovation. But it shouldn’t be this
way. In my opinion, the prior example dilutes its powers.
9. the basics
13
THE FIRST AIRPLANE
These days it seems that innovation as a noun has been thrown into so many
contexts that it has become hype. This makes it difficult for its meaning
to be securely locked in a box. For this reason, it becomes subjective and
highly interpretative. The good thing is the popularity of the word can
only do well to the world. Innovation turns out to be the source and, in the
same time, the target for more and more strategies. Martin Kruse, futurist
at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies (CIFS), states that “research
into innovation offers insights that can benefit everyone working with
organizational development, management, finance or product development.”
Defining what innovation means was giving me a hard time. Every answer
I got was competing in being more poetic than the one before. Here is one
particularly poetic definition coming from the Future Driven Innovation
paper from CIFS: “Shakespeare calls Man the ‘paragon of animals’ the ,
greatest work in the history of evolution. This is because we have a brain
with 100 billion cells and so the ability to change the world around us to
give ourselves a better chance of survival. We develop ourselves through
creative production, a process that, since the dawn of financial markets, has
been known as innovation.”
From the same source, here comes the practical definition: “Innovation has
historically been regarded as inventing a new product, producing it and putting it
on the market. It is the result of a creative process with emphasis on value creation.
Today, innovation can happen anywhere in the company. The value created can
be internal, as is the case with human resources, or directed out to the customer as
a product on the shelf. The point is that value is created and reaches the customer
in some way. ”
What is important to understand from the start is that there is a difference
between innovation and having a creative idea. Both processes can be
innovative in their own way but we shouldn’t confuse them. Kruse told me a little
story that helps to keep in mind the difference between the two processes.
10. 14 the basics
The first airplane was actually visualized by Leonardo da Vinci in the 1480s.
That was just a creative idea. The idea became an invention when the Wright
brothers made a plane out of it, which lifted from the ground in 1903. But
the airplane, at that point, was still not an innovation because it was not yet
marketed.
Twenty-one years later, Continental Dusters (which subsequently became part of
Delta Airlines) gave the airplane its first commercial use, dusting crops. This is the
point in history when the airplane became an innovation.
Similar points of view to Kruse’s are those of Richard Florida and Martin Kenney,
in their book from 1990, The Breakthrough Illusion: Corporate America’s failure to
move from innovation to mass production, consider invention as a breakthrough and
innovation as an actualization.
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11. the basics
29
// THE DIFFUSION THEORY
Diffusion is very well linked with the tipping point theory. You’ll see why.
Academics call the process by which new ideas or products are accepted by
groups of people, The Diffusion of Innovation. The term is coined in 1962
by Everett Rogers, professor at University of Mexico. He set up five steps
of the diffusion process and he also tried to build some criteria by which
innovations spread out faster. He explores how the social environment
influences the way a new innovation spreads. This is what it looks like:
innovation
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12. 36 scanning
WEAK SIGNALS
HOW TO BOIL A FROG
If you drop a frog into a kettle of boiling water it will definitely try to escape.
The reason being the temperature difference is too extreme (20°-100°). However,
if you put a frog in a kettle of water at room temperature and then start to
slowly warm the water, the frog will hardly even notice when the water starts
to boil.
The moral of this story: we easily adapt to changes; we may not even
notice them if they happen gradually. With this funny and insightful tale
I began my morning discussion with Elina Hiltunen in Helsinki.
Elina Hiltunen, founder of What’s Next Consulting, carried out her doctoral
Elina Hiltunen
thesis about using weak signals in organisational environment and has been
interested in this subject since 1998. She is now Finland’s leading expert on
weak signals and focuses on issues like anticipating and innovating future
changes by utilising them. Through weak signals (the first bubbles in the
water as it heats) one can foresee changes.
While talking to Hiltunen, I started to understand what this weak signal
Weak Signals thing is all about and how they are useful futures tools for companies. Elina
are signals offers companies methods, education and inspiring lectures about weak
of emerging signals, which she briefly defines as signals of emerging issues. In practice,
issues. she explains, “they can be news stories or observations about technological
and social innovations, posts in the social media, observations of novelty
products in exhibitions, or simply a modest wall-sticker of an alternative
movement” .
Igor Ansoff, a Russian American applied mathematician and business
manager who is known as the father of strategic management, coined the
term ‘weak signals’ in 1975 and, according to him, it is “the early detection
of those signals that could lead to strategic surprises and to an event that has
the potential to jeopardize an organization’s strategy”.
On a more proactive note, weak signals mean that today’s information
can foretell the changes in the future. Nik Baerten, future explorer at
Pantopicon, a studio of future explorers based in Belgium, expounds on the
subject on their blog: “Change often starts with a ripple before it turns into
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THE TREND&FUTURE
DICTIONARY
A collection of definitions picked up from interviews, articles, books
and blogs discovered and used during the road trip.
WEAK SIGNALS
News stories or observations MACROTRENDS
about technological and social Pattern-based understanding
innovations, posts in the social of past and present, help to
media, observations of novelty determine the likelihood of
products, or simply a modest wall- future events. Their life span is
sticker of an alternative movement. five to ten years. macrotrend
Weak signals are current oddities, e.g. Fair Trade
strange issues that are thought to
be in key position in anticipating
future changes in organizational
environments. / E. Hiltunen
e.g. H&M starts selling vintage clothes.
MICROTRENDS
microtrend
Concrete examples of marketed
MEGATRENDS inovations: technologies, products,
Last decades, affect many different start-ups etc.
aspects of society, and involve Life span of 1-2 years until they
a complex process that often develop into a stronger trend or
includes politics, economy and disappear completely.
technology. A microtrend is something new,
e.g. Sustainability intelligent, mass-market ready and
structure changing.
dnertag e.g. Ben&Jerry‘s fair tweets: Ben & Jerry‘s
TREND
e m and Twitter use every unused character by
The general direction in which automatically adding a message linked to
something tends to move. the tweet. The aim is promoting fair trade.
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CONSUMER INSIGHTS USER DRIVEN INNOVATION
A fresh and not-yet obvious Customers are observed to
understanding of customer beliefs, understand how they work
values, habits, desires, motives, with the product and what
emotions or needs that can unrecognized needs they have.
become the basis for a competitive / Design Thinking is a broader
advantage. / M. Sawhney. approach and describes a whole
Insight is about what’s happening process while User Driven
in the space between the consumer Innovation just indicates that the
and the product, his key motives, user is integrated in your project
drivers and barriers. development.
Spotted through close observation, User-initiated innovation: the
tion
empirical research and direct
innova
consumer creates or improves a
content with the consumer. product. Von Hippel called this
e.g. People startig to consume regional ‘user innovation’.
products being away from their hometwon.
Insight: people are feeling home-sick.
CREATIVE THINKING
The term innovation is often used
DESIGN THINKING to refer to the entire process by
A human-centered approach to which an organization generates
innovation that draws from the creative new ideas and converts
designer’s toolkit to integrate the them into novel, useful and viable
needs of people, the possibilities of commercial products, services,
technology, and the requirements and business practices, while the
for business success. / term creativity is reserved to apply
D. Brown. specifically to the generation
of novel ideas by individuals or
gnikniht groups, as a necessary step within
ngised the innovation process.
/ Wikipedia
16. If there is one single book I recommend to get a joyful taste of what the work in
the fields of innovation and trends is like, then it is this impressive work by Delia
Dumitrescu. She tells the story of her mental and physical learning trip and easily
manages to shed light on and give answers to most of the pivital questions an
outsider would ask.
Dr. Pero Mićić, CEO FutureManagementGroup
‘Road Trip to Innovation’ is a fun to read, non-pretentious exploration into
the world of innovation told through a refreshing and honest voice.
It’s not about making grandiose statements, it simply gathers and compiles
information from the movers and shakers of innovation into one comprehensive
look; and more often than not, that’s all you want and need – simple, honest, and
comprehensive.
Susan M. Choi, Director of Strategy + Innovation, CScout Inc.
As a ‘Trend Passionionate’ person I love to work with insights and trends as
inspiration for idea and concept development.
The term ‘trends’ covers a broad variety of definitions. This is both chance and
confusion simultaneously.
For my daily innovation work I aspired a kind of navigation tool. ‘Road Trip to
Innovation’ is the perfect synergy of this type of tool: educational and beneficial
concerning the various perspectives of future research and it is fun to read – be
inspired!
Jens Bode, International Foresight Manager at Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
ISBN 978-3-00-035736-7