Brainstorming 2.0: Making Ideas That Really Happen

One of the most common questions we hear at 99U is: “How do I get more out of my brainstorming sessions?” While brainstorming sessions have become perhaps the most iconic act of creativity, we still struggle with how to give them real utility. The problem of course is that most brainstorming sessions conclude prematurely. We all love to dream big and come up with “blue sky” ideas. We’re less fond of diving into the nitty-gritty details of creative execution. As a result, we spend 90% of our time coming up with a bunch of great ideas, and maybe 10% (if any!) So how can we retool our approach to brainstorming to make it more effective? Disney’s rigorous creative process involves 3 distinct phases of idea development, each of which is designed to unfold in a separate room. Step 1 asks “WHAT are we going to do?” It’s all about dreaming big. Room Setup: Airy rooms with high-ceilings are the best locations for thinking big. Mentality: Any idea is fair game. Step 3 asks “WHY are we doing this?”

UNdata The Future of Advertising Google Scholar How Technology is Recreating the 21st-century Economy W. Brian Arthur, PARC Visiting Researcher series: Entrepreneurial Spirit 4 August 20115:30-7:00pmGeorge E. about PARC forum description Every 50 years or so a new body of technology comes along and slowly transforms the economy. Brian Arthur -- an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, pioneer of complexity theory, and longtime PARC Visiting Researcher – will attempt to answer these and other questions in this PARC Forum talk. Digital technology runs deeper than merely providing computation, internet commerce, and social media. presenter(s) W. Arthur pioneered the modern study of positive feedbacks/ increasing returns in the economy -- in particular, their role in magnifying small, random economic events -- and this work became the basis of our understanding of the high-tech economy. Arthur was the Morrison Professor of Economics and Population Studies at Stanford University, and the first director of the Economics Program at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. audio

Union of Intelligible Associations Globalisation and higher education: Different degrees of success David Hummels, Rasmus Jørgensen, Jakob R. Munch, Chong Xiang , 10 December 2011 Fuelled by concerns over rising income inequality, Occupy Wall Street has grown into a global movement in slightly over 2 months, with protests in over 900 cities worldwide. Protestors have been criticised for lacking a specific set of policy demands, but in this the protestors are hardly alone. Nor is there consensus regarding the policies likely to ameliorate inequality. However, there is a growing concern that college isn’t enough. Early work on offshoring and college premium in the 1980s focused on industry-level data and examined average wage bills. When we focus on workers who remain employed with the firm, we find that offshoring raises the college wage premium, both by increasing wages (elasticity +3.6%) for college-educated workers and lowering wages (elasticity -1.6%) for workers without a college education. Does globalisation leave all non-college-educated employees behind? Figure 1. Figure 2.

BASE (moteur de recherche) Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. BASE est un moteur de recherche développé dans le cadre du projet Open Archives Initiative par l'Université de Bielefeld (Allemagne). Il est fondé sur la technologie Fast Search & Transfer (en), et a contribué au projet européen Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (en) (DRIVER). BASE effectue l'indexation automatique des bibliothèques numériques utilisant le protocole Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Il se distingue d'autres moteurs de recherche par sa spécialisation académique, la capacité de trouver des ressources appartenant au Web profond (ou Web invisible, non indexé par les moteurs commerciaux), l'utilisation de la recherche plein texte et la présentation des résultats de recherche accompagnés des données bibliographiques. Moteur BASE Portail sciences de l’information et bibliothèques

The Rise of the New Global Elite - Magazine F. Scott Fitzgerald was right when he declared the rich different from you and me. But today’s super-rich are also different from yesterday’s: more hardworking and meritocratic, but less connected to the nations that granted them opportunity—and the countrymen they are leaving ever further behind. Stephen Webster/Wonderful Machine If you happened to be watching NBC on the first Sunday morning in August last summer, you would have seen something curious. This diagnosis, though alarming, was hardly unique: drawing attention to the divide between the wealthy and everyone else has long been standard fare on the left. This widening gap between the rich and non-rich has been evident for years. In a plutonomy there is no such animal as “the U.S. consumer” or “the UK consumer”, or indeed the “Russian consumer”. Before the recession, it was relatively easy to ignore this concentration of wealth among an elite few. But the financial crisis and its long, dismal aftermath have changed all that.

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