Design Repositories – Engineering Inspiration

When the mechanism for innovation is the mother of invention there are only a few ways that the purpose for this innovation takes place. Is there a way to increase that? Yes, and here’s how.

As defined in The Development Of A Repository Of InnovativeProducts For Inspiration In Engineering Design the possibilities of function subtraction and the utility of innovating functions are carefully weighed. What is found?

Both are required to continue to improve the value of products. But what happens when a toothbrush is enabled with Bluetooth and can speak to you and understand your interactions with it? Then what? This is the value of design repositories used for the engineering purpose of further enabling the inspiration cycle so necessary in the lives of engineers and designers not only for the motivation but also for the continued development of the art of their efforts. It is these tools as described above that give engineers and designers the drive to push forward. 

                               

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Breaking the Design Fixation – It’s all in the Innovation Flow

Limitations are the basis for all finalized & developed output: engineering and economics cannot be ignored. But what about when this is exactly what you must avoid?  Here’s how.

As fully and perfectly detailed in Examining Design Fixation In Engineering Idea Generation: The Role Of Example Modality we see the basis of limitations placed on designers and engineers when R&D for new product development efforts are taking place. The limitations for this are therefore initially visual and quickly become functional based on the capability of the mechanisms used to produce said designs with the final limitations being placed by the economic ramifications of the manufacturing process.

What be comes apparent is the mechanisms and mentalities of the views that that the designers hold when the initial investigations of the typologies to be investigated are completed. Simply, what you see is the 1^st limitation of the possible domains that you might investigate. By removing limitations from the 1^st instances, the expectations become limitless and innovation is able to flow freely. Value is then a byproduct that cannot be ignored when breakthroughs are realized.

                                

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World Retail Congress Honors REUTPALA

As reported by the World Retail Congress, last week, at the Rome Cavalieri, the retail industry gathered to celebrate the achievements of retailers over the past year. 

The winners were presented with brand new 'REUTPALA'  awards trophies by Gregory Polletta, Professor and Founder, of iGNITIATE. Congratulations to the winners! 2015 World Retail Awards winners:

* Lifetime Achievement Award for Design and Retail: Alberto Alessi

* Future Retail Challenge: Hong Kong Polytechnic University sponsored by Li & Fung

* Young Retail Entrepreneur of the Year (sponsored by MasterCard)
Nitin Passi, Founder & CEO, Missguided.com
 
* Retail Transformation & Reinvention (sponsored by Boston Consulting Group)
Primark
 
* Retail Advertising Campaign of the Year (sponsored by Mall of Qatar)
M&S “For Every Milestone”. RKCR/Y&R
 
* Store Design of the Year
Hamleys World, Moscow by Fitch
 
* e-Commerce Retailer of the Year (sponsored by JDA)
JD.com, China
 
* Outstanding Leadership Award (sponsored by Korn Ferry)
Paul Marchant, CEO, Primark
 
* Retailer of the Year (sponsored by IBM)
Alibaba

Covered by WRA London; InStore Magazine Italy; EIMAGAZINE Rome; Twitter at #WRC2015 and #WRA2015; iGNITIATE USA; Retail Week, UK; Hunt Review UK; Fashion Mag UK; WRA UK; Drapers UK; WRC UK; WRA London; Chainstore Magazine, UK; Future Retail, UK; WN.com USA; Abomous USA; Toyworld, UK

                               

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The World Retail Congress unveils REUTPALA at the Cavalieri, Waldorf Astoria Hotel Rome

REUTPALA, produced with prototype stainless steel 3d metal printer technology by Gregory Polletta, contains the origin of retail - the connection between the maker/giver & receiver. 

Designed and produced by Gregory Polletta, it was completed over a 300+ day R&D period with 10+ international partners with prototype 3D metal printing technology connected to the ENPC PhD Engineering / MBA program in Paris, RCA's RapidFormRCA program London, and the Imperial University London's Manufacturing Futures Lab part of the Mechanical Engineering 3D printing program.

REUTPALA is the juxtaposition of utpala - “longevity or renewal”, “to burst open”, “youth” and that of the future of retail. REUTPALA is a symbol and when examined closely inside the victory of the spirit of giving and receiving with two hands is preserved. The typology of REUTPALA allows it to keep the brand identity of the World Retail Congress in a prominent position on a person’s desk yet obsecured by the object itself, a reminder of the worldly spirit of giving and receiving.


The Award was given to: 

• Alberto Alessi Lifetime Achievement Award for Design and Retail
  Accepted by Matteo Alessi
• Nitin Passi - Founder & CEO, Missguided.com
  Young Retail Entrepreneur of the Year
• MudoRetail
  Transformation & Reinvention Award
• PrimarkRetail
  Transformation & Reinvention Award
• M&S "For Every Milestone"
  Retail Advertising Campaign of the Year
• Hamleys World, Moscow by Fitch
  Store Design of the Year
• JD.com, China
  e-Commerce Retailer of the Year
• Alibaba
  Retailer of the Year
  Accepted by Jingming Li - Group VP & Head of US for Alibaba

Covered by WRA London; InStore Magazine Italy; EIMAGAZINE Rome; Twitter at #WRC2015 and #WRA2015; iGNITIATE USA; Retail Week, UK; Hunt Review UK; Fashion Mag UK; WRA UK; Drapers UK; WRC UK; WRA London; Chainstore Magazine, UK; Future Retail, UK; WN.com USA; Abomous USA; Toyworld, UK

                               

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Where are the Front and Backstages of Innovations ?

What are the key differences between public and behind the scenes uses of innovation? These are.

When a firm utilizes “innovation” the mechanism for dissemination of breakthroughs is radically different? Why? Any number of political, design, ego, financial and technical reasons. How can this be mitigated to bring breakthroughs out faster and without error. In Front And Backstages Of The Diminished Routinization Of Innovations: What Innovation Research Makes Public And Organizational Research Finds Behind The Scenes  we see how and how designers can take advantage of this to move things faster than ever before. 

                               

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Decentralizing the Creative Self – it’s others that make designers happen.

How do designers and innovators see the unseen? By removing the self and using the eyes of others and here’s how.

In Decentralizing the Creative Self: How Others Make Creativity Possible in Creative Professional Fields the basis for evaluating the boundaries of family and friends, peers and students, clients and funders, critics and gatekeepers, and the general public who shape tacitly the capability for what is accepted is clearly articulated. Via what is designed and how these influencers act as barrier guides providing the necessary feedback for designers, a map of the paths for innovations to reach the hands of users who ultimately evolve with what is designed therefore influencing the trajectory of breakthroughs is revealed.

                               

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Design Thinking: Past, Present and Possible Futures

How is the future of design evolving to cope with the evolution of “the best way to be creative and innovate”? Here’s how.

Historically the notion of “design” thinking was clearly articulated by those in the realm of envisioning and delivering with five clear discourses or ways to describe what designers do in practice. As the evolution of these models have changed, so to has the ecosystem and those that inhabit it. In Design Thinking: Past, Present and Possible Futures many specific and clear tools for evaluating the ecosystem of change: of innovation itself. A compass has been uncovered.

                               

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Can Engineering meet creativity ? Yes to create tools to design new connections

How can 46 pieces of paper break open the doors of design perception? Here’s how.

By utilizing a model called The Design to Connect designers, engineers and managers can widen the scope of six key design drivers that challenge the heuristic of design spaces and in this explore a enumerated outcomes. The result is a more articulated ideation and goal set which generated significantly higher number of ideas, exploring a larger solution space for project success.

                               

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