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Design is a fragmented industry 2008-03-07 23:52:00 Brain power Design is a fragmented industry thriving on its broad mix of skills and applications. Rune Gustafson argues that it's vital to find ways of demonstrating the value of what we do - both the creative work and the intellectual rigour behind it DON'T you feel that we are all now spending less time justifying why design is important? People get it. Every year we have the opportunity to ...

Broca could significantly reduce local coffee production 2008-03-07 23:49:00 Broca could significantly reduce local coffee production Unofficial numbers suggest between $30 million and $36 million in losses; coffee production could drop as much as 40% byginamhernandez For many years, coffee was king in Puerto Rico's agriculture. Currently, more than half of the coffee Puerto Ricans drink is imported and a plague threatens to reduce that amount even further. The ...

It costs capital to acquire a new client 2008-03-07 23:47:00 SHORT-TERM INSURANCE ^ THE POINT Times, they are a changing... It costs capital to acquire a new client INDIVIDUAL UNDERWRITING: does it sound like rocket science and hard work? Not really. It's what the direct insurers have been doing that's given them such a big kick-start into the short-term insurance market sector - to the tune of a 25% market share in just 10 years. And they've done so ...

becoming 'more attentive' to food shipments 2008-03-07 23:46:00 By the book FSIS inspectors are becoming 'more attentive' to food shipments BY R.G. EDMONSON Was this a crackdown or not? A few weeks ago, refrigerated warehouses began noticing that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service was less willing to cut comers on the paperwork when it came to clearing food products for export. The result was an unexpected drag on the ...

Reverse Engineer a Product to Create Innovations 2008-03-07 05:53:00 By Claudia Hentschel Reverse engineering takes a product function or effect and tries to find new applications for it. The 6-C method leads a product development team to both incremental and breakthrough innovations: 1. Capture: Systematically keep or strengthen an eye for observing customers’ habits, including instances of unorthodox, accidental use whenever possible [9]. Here, the actual ...

BRAINSTORMING THE BARRIERS 2008-03-07 05:43:00 When we brainstorm - or run any kind of ideation event, such as an ideas campaign, innovation initiative and so on - we tend to formulate positive innovation challenges, such as "How might we make product X more appealing to young women?" or "In what ways might we reduce the cost of manufacturing our widgets?" This can, of course, be very effective. However, another approach to take is to ...

THE CREATIVE IDEA IMPLEMENTATION PLAN 2008-03-07 05:40:00 There are a number of reasons why creative ideas fail to become innovations. Sometimes it is because the idea, which seems brilliant in concept, is flawed in application. More often, the problem is that organisations invest in creative ideation initiatives (often called "innovation initiatives"), such as brainstorming events, idea management, ideas campaigns and the like, but fail to invest in ...

boomerang innovation 2008-03-07 05:37:00 Here's a new innovation rule for you, one that should be every organization's first rule of innovation: Don't try to innovate unless you intend to innovate. Sounds silly doesn't it? It's not. Over the years I have seen far too many examples of what I call "boomerang innovation". It's a tremendous waste of money and highly demotivating for all concerned. Boomerang innovation is never ...

INNOVATION: THE SIMPLE AND THE DIFFICULT 2008-03-06 23:40:00 Simple is a word you come across frequently. innovation process should be kept simple. After all, children, artists and entrepreneurs all seem to have little trouble generating creative ideas which can be turned into innovative results. Moreover, innovation should often focus on simplification. Technical products, business administrative processes and professional services all tend to be complex. ...

Of wired walls and brain cells 2008-03-05 13:10:00 SciTech: Developments to Watch Innovations • What if the walls had not ears, but energy? That's the idea behind an electricity-conducting film developed at the University of Tokyo that could one day be used as wallpaper, wirelessly powering up electronic devices. Now, cell phones, laptops, and the like need to be plugged into a socket for recharging. The researchers, led by Takao Someya, ...