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Humankinds Greatest Inventions

There are a number of amazing inventions that have been created during the course of human history. Some of the great ones that come to mind are:
–The printing press
–The electric light
–Electrical power plants and the infrastructure for the mass distribution of electricity
–The telephone
–Recorded sound
–Radio
–Television
–The photograph
–Moving Pictures
–Digital video
–Concrete
–Steel
–Plastic
–The automobile
–Paper
–Vaccines
–Rocket
–Nuclear power
–Satellite communications
–The internet
I could list many [...]

Innovation Management: Trying Out New Ideas

Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.
There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generation and, similarly, distinct processes that enhance idea selection, development and commercialisation. Whilst there is no sure fire route to commercial success, these processes improve [...]

Putting Your Ideas Into Action

Ideas are everywhere. Some are small and seemingly insignificant. Others are big giant ideas with the chance to change large portions of our lives. Each idea that we encounter, whether we create the idea, synthesize it from somewhere else, or hear it, is a possible opportunity.
A possible opportunity.
It doesn’t matter how promising, exciting [...]

What Dreams Will Come!

As the pioneers of aviation took to the air (not skies), in their human powered mechanical contraptions, what must have been said and thought?
Complicated pulleys and chain systems enclosing a lunatic, perhaps!
Or overly optimistic cyclists with designs above their head, even.
Yet they left us with the beginnings of international and inter-planetary travel, its’ destinations, physical [...]

Facing a Resource Crunch? Read On!

Recently I read an excerpt from a new business innovation book wherein the author went to great lengths to instill the need to provide sufficient resources for every innovation effort, without which the effort would be almost certain to fail. The cited leadership’s frequent failure to ensure adequate resources as the single most important [...]

Innovation Makes Leaders

Basically what innovation does is making your business unique and often more progressive in its development.
Looking deeper at positive influence of innovation allows us to notice clear tendency from business stagnation to rapid development depending on what level of innovation takes place in business management and planning.
The logic behind is simple if your business is [...]

Change Is a Skill Development Learning Process

Change, like almost every other life experience, is a learning process. With each new idea or situation comes the need to learn about it?what is it? How does it work? How do I fit in? What are the good and bad aspects of it? So let’s talk for a moment about the process of learning.LEARNING [...]

Prevention is Better Than Cure… Says Who?

You’ve likely heard this before… “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Says who? I mean come on. If prevention was so popular why would we see so many “cures” being marketed. Why? Because of basic human nature that’s why.
We play the odds, we ‘wait and see’. We figure that if it breaks [...]

Owning Your Power

Owning your power, your power to be real, to be who you really are, is really about owning your freedom. Consider how your reasons for not being yourself may have been to get the love or approval of others. Then, you have given others the power to decide your way of being, and thus keeping [...]

Mother Of Invention Or Dummy? You Decide!

What would you say to yourself if when faced with a severe problem that could potentially devastate your lifestyle? What would happen if you “did” the first thing that came into your mind? Would you be proud of yourself? Analyze what Jim did and see how you would measure up.
Jim had worked hard all his [...]