Tuesday 14 February 2017

What Does Entrepreneurial Creativity Have to do with Innovation? Everything.


What does Creativity & Entrepreneurship have to do with each other? Just about everything. But now what? 


We all know that creativity for creativity sake is the same as singing in the shower. But what then does creativity and entrepreneurship have to do with one another and how can this and how has this effected large scale multinationals? In An Exploratory Study of Entrepreneurial Creativity we see the basis of how an Intrapreneur with wide eyes to possible opportunities for self expression and idea visibility plus self-efficacy and expertise have significant direct effects on entrepreneurial creativity and significant indirect effects through increasing intrinsic motivation clarifying of the relationship between the individual and resource-related factors and entrepreneurial creativity. When creativity is channeled specifically towards individual attention and output even in the face of resource constraints, success emerges. Innovation breakthroughs happen!




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Monday 6 February 2017

R&D&D How Great Ideas Become Game Changers

What is the capacity of innovators in 2016? What is the capability of R&D&Design influence in the future? How does this empower designers to create game changing environments? Here’s how.

In Understanding influences on engineering creativity and innovation: a biographical study of 12 outstanding engineering designers and innovators the basis of personality types, design mentalities, efficacy capabilities and more, management mentalities are explored and detailed to understand the value that design plays in the R&D mind. 



Via key factors such as environment, knowledge, attitude and insight, the associated values connected to moving from one illuminated state to another while in complete darkness are explored. What becomes apparent is how the systems to support such breakthroughs are not entirely complex, however it is the environmental queues that design innovators use via rapid series of iterations allowing interests by key users who work in tandem with R&D and Design to bring game changing possibilities to market.  


  

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Tuesday 31 January 2017

The Innovators DNA ? The Designers DNA !

DNA, the basic building blocks of life are often associated with individual capabilities and linked strongly with behavioral and physical prowess. More is the likely hood to think that the capabilities for learning and re-programming these characteristics are more hard coded than the software model of re-programming.
 

In The Innovators DNA a 3500 person statistical zeitgeist performed by INSEAD some of the these assumptions were heavily challenged and as such 4 basic factors were identified Associating, Observing, Experimenting, Questioning, Networking which top “innovators” have identified with them. What is lacking however is the correlation between personality profiles of these “innovators” to determine if they were merely incredible executors OF innovations - in the case of Jobs via his famous raiding of Xerox PARC employees to build the Mac. To this a more specific question is what is the Design Innovators DNA via the article What Personality Traits to Designers Share related to those who make breakthroughs themselves like Douglas Engelbart in 1968 who was the designer of the mouse, the graphical user interface, and many of the other breakthroughs that led to continued work at Xerox PARC and then “borrowed” by Apple.
Englebarts seminal work in 1968, years before the emergence of the internet via ARPANET, DARPANET, TCP/IP or any of the modern day machinations of the internet show the true designers / innovators DNA in action.
 

  

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Tuesday 24 January 2017

3D Printing: Bigger than the Internet & the Future of Manufacturing


In 2007 in an address to the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore on the future of design in 2058 and how it will effect global economies the focus to the government of Singapore to pursue: Art, Design & Engineering and 3D Printing education and technologies for it's population. And this isn't anything that people haven't been aware of since 1986 when the 1st commercial 3D Printing company came into existence  The technology, developed many years earlier by who else? The military: for engineers in the field.

Art, 3D Design and Printing has been identified by Venture Beat as the technology of the future and FT has dubbed it "bigger than the internet" in a 10 minute video on how this will take place.

Of course the question is: how is your firm addressing or even embracing this technologies and design directions? Miss it and be in the same position as firms who didn't embrace the cotton gin during the beginning of the industrial revolution or companies who didn't embrace the internet in the late 90's.

The details on how this has occurred in 2012 and how it will continue to occur in 2013 and beyond plus  the companies involved in summary form is right here:






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Design Innovation Isn't Just Balls

Often we are asked, "what is design innovation" and naturally the answer is juggling a bowling ball, a pink pong ball on fire and a chainsaw that is on. This is a very visceral answer to a challenging question which cannot be possibly described in any other way, without of course pulling out a pencil and bar napkin. More, the nature of design innovation has it's roots quite deep in that of "commercialization" and not just invention - THE key component to deign success.



Detailed here are some of the basic notions and of course capabilities of the design innovation process which all need careful juggled for true market breakthroughs. Another example is that of iGNITIATE's ShaRing system - a past success and design possibility for fun and interaction between those coming in contact with each other.



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Thursday 19 January 2017

tiny design, BIG INNOVATION

Design and the conversion of design into "innovation" isn't always about the economic impact a particular product has or the market that it develops, rather it can also be about the tacit nudge a new product makes within a product line.

Take Peepster for instance a tiny little camera cute as a gumby and simple as a point and shoot Walmart disposable. Ultimate value? Well expensive, and it is used for spying purposes but it's impact on design as well as other products that can be generated from it serves it's purpose. 



ROI is seldom forgotten within the funding and development models for new products but aesthetically little gems like this shouldn't be ignored.



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