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Innovation Strategy The Oslo Manual for measuring innovation defines four types of innovation: product innovation, process innovation, marketing innovation and organisational innovation. A good or service that is new or significantly improved. This includes significant improvements in technical specifications, components and materials, software in the product, user friendliness or other functional characteristics. A new or significantly improved production or delivery method.
Intro : Imagination: Creating the Future of Education & Work The creative adult is the child who has survived - Ursula Le Guin RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms In February 2011, every teacher in Providence, Rhode Island was pink slipped. Not all 1,926 of them will get fired, of course, but with the district facing a $40 million deficit, anything is possible. Institute of Design The d.school’s K-12 Lab team is abuzz with learnings from the recent DT2Schools Workshop. The workshop brought together teachers and administrators from 8 different schools, including two teachers from the Lab’s international partner Riverside School who came all the way from India. In addition to schools, representatives from Teach for America’s curriculum design team also attended. Teachers were immersed in design thinking with two cycles through our design process. They then turned immediately to apply the design process to their own curriculum to take design thinking back to their schools.
How GitHub Helps You Hack the Government Chris Kemp, left, and Lew Moorman at the July, 2010 launch of OpenStack. Photo: James Duncan Davidson On April 9th of last year, someone called Iceeey proposed a change to an obscure document written by the federal government’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The document wasn’t that important. It was a form for transit subsidy requests. And the change was tiny, a typo fix.
What is Innovation? 30+ definitions lead to one fresh summary - Fresh Consulting What is Innovation? 30+ definitions lead to one fresh summary: Fresh Thinking that Creates Value The Problem From the Economist to Wikipedia to Websters to Barack Obama to Innovation Zen, around the globe, we seek tangible answers for an intangible question: What is Innovation? Definitions vary and people mean different things. After reviewing dozens of definitions from a diverse set of sources, I propose a consensus on a simple definition…as a basis for future conversations about Innovation. Sparks Fly - March/April 2011 Can imagination be taught? Evidently, because the d.school’s innovation hothouse is changing the way people think. A first-year graduate student in the management science and engineering program, Asha Gupta had barely started Design Garage, a course aptly characterized as an "imagination dunk tank"—and she was getting soaked. Gupta and her classmates were challenged to develop a prototype that would improve the gift-giving experience. They had 54 minutes. The students—an eclectic group with a budding musicologist, a neuroscientist, a journalist and two future lawyers—paired off to interview each other about anything that made them unhappy when giving gifts.
Wikipedia - What is Innovation While something novel is often described as an innovation, in economics, management science, and other fields of practice and analysis it is generally considered a process that brings together various novel ideas in a way that they have an impact on society. Innovation differs from invention in that innovation refers to the use of a better and, as a result, novel idea or method, whereas invention refers more directly to the creation of the idea or method itself. Innovation differs from improvement in that innovation refers to the notion of doing something different rather than doing the same thing better. Inter-disciplinary views[edit]
Supporting Innovation in SME: Innovation Guide Dear Reader, Welcome to the revised, extended and updated practical Guide to Support Innovation in Small and Medium Enterprises that was released in May 2009. It's content covers subjects which are part of the innovation process and the acceptance of the guide has proved its usefulness: The first edition of the Guide was released in 2005 and more than 1500 registered users from over 50 countries from around the world have accessed the online guide. About 20.000 web pages currently refer to www.innosupport.net. The Guide has been carefully evaluated, updated and extended; some chapters have been partly rewritten and new chapters have been included, in addition new media elements and learning assignments that support understanding and rapid orientation have been added.