Encouraging a Culture of Innovation to Beat Competition

Fostering
a culture of innovation and creativity in business can help one stay a
step ahead of competitors, by ensuring that products and services remain
up to date and in line with what customers need. Innovative businesses
often have strong, inspirational leaders and management and well-trained
and motivated employees. These businesses maintain a culture of
innovation, constantly looking at every aspect of the organization and
not just its products and services.

In
today’s business environment, it is difficult for businesses to
outgrow, out market, or out price the competition but driving innovation
while implementing continuous improvement will help businesses stand
out from the competition. Every business wants to innovate, even if it
is not on the same level as Apple or Google. Innovation has to have a
purpose. That’s exactly what Apple has been doing, and its devotion to
designing new customer experiences centered on technology has
contributed to a 1,300 percent rise in its stock price in the past 10
years and a market capitalization that exceeds that of Microsoft. Apple
keeps innovating because it has deliberately fashioned a culture of
innovation. The company’s steadfastness to design and innovate is built
into its DNA and that enables it to promote, conceive and implement
revolutionary ideas and remain in a continuous state of reinvention.

Business
innovation now a day’s does not only mean making the product
development better but it also means that companies should keep
reinventing themselves in ways, that the internal and external customers
goodwill towards the company increases. Research has found that
companies that do the best in a tough economy are those that innovate
and are open to outside ideas. The power of the crowd innovation is
being utilized by many businesses and many companies are doing
efficiently by outsourcing their first line support and service function
to the crowd. Air New Zealand’s Aviation Design Academy for example,
set out to design the best long-haul flying experience. Passengers were
asked to design parts of the flying experience on their new 777-300
aircraft – the cocktail, in-flight food, eye mask and one “freeform”
idea.

The
winners had the opportunity to take a flight from Auckland to London to
sample the implementation of their ideas. The competition attracted
huge number of entries and generated more interest in Air New Zealand’s
marketing initiative.

In many cases, CEOs see collaboration as
key to their success with innovation. They know they cannot do it all
using internal resources. So they look outside for other organizations
to partner with. True innovation requires someone who can visualize the
possibilities of an idea generation and who has the ability and tenacity
to successfully implement it. With successful idea management services,
organizations can blend the strengths with various feedbacks as a means
to encourage a culture of innovation. This way the best idea is most
likely to successfully beat completion in the market.

What Innovation Can Do to Your Life

It’s a talent that everyone has, yet they think they don’t. The power of innovation. If you’ve ever marvelled at somebody’s creative prowess, guess what, you can create and innovate too. It just takes time. Everyone is born creative. The box of crayons in kindergarten were not limited to those who possessed potential; because the truth is, everybody has potential.

You know how long it took to learn to ride a bike or drive or to never commit the same mistake again? It’s the same with innovation. It takes a bit of practice and a lot of time before this mind function comes easily when called. This article will teach you a few tips on how to bring innovation into your life.

Don’t listen to what other people say. Follow the beat of your own drum. Allowing for the input of other people will only bring cacophony to the music you are trying to make. If you have an original idea, don’t waste your time and effort trying to make people understand. They won’t. And the help you will probably get comes in the form of negative feedback. If all those geniuses listened to their peers, we would probably still be living in the middle ages.

Spend time on it. I cannot stress that enough, although, please do not mistake this tip to tell you to quit your day job entirely. Do not. This involves some tricky time management but with a little discipline you’ll be able to squeeze both in.

Exercise. Take a walk. Run a mile or two. Send all those endorphins coursing through your veins. Exercising certainly clears and relaxes your mind and allows for anything to pop up.

Record your dreams. Aren’t some of them just the craziest things that your conscious mind would never have thought of? If you’ve had these dreams before, and I’m sure have, this only shows you the untapped innovative power you have lying within. So jot down those notes. Those dreams may just create an innovative spark in you.

Find your own style. You can always tell a Van Gogh from a Matisse. You’ll know Hemingway wrote something by the choice of words on the paper. So it is the same with you. People will appreciate your innovation more because it is uniquely yours and that no one else would have thought of what you were thinking. That will let people see how valuable an asset you are.

Don’t hide behind nifty gadgets or tools. You don’t need the most expensive set of paints to produce a masterpiece. The same way with writing. You don’t need some expensive fountain pen and really smooth paper for a bestseller. In fact, J.K. Rowling wrote the first book of the Harry Potter Series on bits of tissue. So what if you’ve got an expensive SLR camera if you’re a crappy photographer? Who cares if you’ve got a blinging laptop if you can’t write at all? The artist actually reduces the number of tools he has as he gets better at his craft: he knows what works and what doesn’t.

Nothing will work without passion. What wakes you up in the mornings? What keeps the flame burning? What is the one thing that you’ll die if you don’t do? Sometimes people with talent are overtaken by the people who want it more. Think the hare and the tortoise. Ellen Degeneres once said that if you’re not doing something that you want to do, then you don’t really want to do it. And that’s true. Sometimes you just want something so bad you become a virtual unstoppable. And that is passion. Passion will keep you going.

Don’t worry about inspiration. You can’t force it; inspiration hits when you least expect it to, for those unpredictable yet inevitable moments you should prepare. An idea could strike you on the subway, yet alas, you poor unfortunate soul; you have no sheet of paper to scribble down a thought that could change the world. Avoid these disasters. Have a pen and paper within your arm’s reach at all times.

I hope this article has helped you bring more innovation into your life. Keep in mind that you’re doing these things for your own satisfaction and not anybody else’s. But soon enough they will notice, and everything should snowball from there.

“It’s not about what you are not able to do. What you need to become curious about, is what’s possible.”

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Ohio Leads in Green and Renewable Energy Investment, Innovation And Jobs Generation

Between 1999 and November 2009, Ohio lost 418,000 manufacturing jobs. And for a long time, well before the recession, Ohio’s unemployment rate was higher than the nation’s. At 9.4 percent, it still is, but improvement is on the way. And green energy investment is one reason.

Ohio is one of the many states-targeted by Republicans for whom anything green is a red flag-that has a renewable energy standard, thus making Ohio, leader in green energy. Three years ago, Ohio mandated that, by 2025, 12.5 percent of electricity sold in the state must come from renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Another 12.5 percent must come from alternatives, such as nuclear power, natural gas and so-called “clean coal.” That’s going to be an uphill climb since currently Ohio only has 10 megawatts of installed wind-power operations and a little more than that in solar power. A single coal-fired plant typically has a rated capacity 600 megawatts or more.

But there’s movement in the right direction in Ohio thanks to operations like Cardinal Fastener & Specialty Co., the maker of bolts for wind turbines visited by Barack Obama two years ago just days before his inauguration. That visit was the first of many that the President has made throughout the country-mostly in the Midwest-to tout what is the closest thing the country has to an industrial plan: public investment in green manufacturing and related projects.

In the $800 billion stimulus package, $90 billion was appropriated for this: investments in residential weatherization, public transportation, innovation and manufacturing. Since then, there have been many complaints that most of the money has arrived too slowly, and that the jobs this investment was supposed to create have been too paltry.

The reality is that fully revving up green manufacturing will require many years of public and private investment. And as much as it galls deficit hawks, it will require a great deal more than $90 billion from Washington. The Chinese government is putting $738 billion into green energy alone over the next decade. That’s in addition to the vast amounts it’s putting into new and rebuilt infrastructure, including modern public transportation.

The environmental benefits of green investment speak for themselves. Less carbon dioxide will be flung into the atmosphere, less toxic waste will be produced, in short, there will be reduced impacts all around. But the impact that gets too little media attention-and then, usually, it’s negative-is the long-term impact on jobs.

Cardinal Fastener is one small success story. As Maria Galucci at SolveClimate relates, by adding wind-turbine manufacturers to the list of buyers it sells its hot-forged bolts to, the company has been able to double its revenue in less than four years and add 25 workers to its 40-employee payroll.

Except for earmarked projects they can put their names on, most Republicans (and some Democrats) view public investment in anything that doesn’t have a military purpose as anathema, un-American. In fact, without government subsidies and innovation funded by public monies, the U.S. economy would never have been as successful as it was.

Politicians, both the myopic and the malicious, together with their billionaire patrons, seek to do all they can to keep us on the dead-end path set for us by Ronald Reagan 30 years ago. Unless our smarter, more progressive leaders commit to vast sums for green investment and combine this public money with green policies, the economic deterioration plaguing us now will worsen, along with the environment.

Some will argue that now is not the time because the House of Representatives is in the hands of the most anti-environment, pro-oligarchy crew in more than a century. They will say the President isn’t bold enough. Funny how our enemies never stop trying to accomplish their agenda because they are told it’s impossible. Do you suppose their unwillingness to surrender despite the odds is what has made them so successful?

Stereo Microscopes Innovation in Microscope Industry

The stereo microscope is used to view small things. It helps to view objects with different inclinations and with turns to have clear view which otherwise not clear in normal view. These stereo microscopes are making different to object with both eyes. It also helps researcher or scientist to have a 3D view of the object. It is intended to study the nearby object which is otherwise difficult. It is also used in close critical medical operations, in manufacturing or repair of watches, etc.

In this stereo microscope, lights or rays are reflected not radiated. Some stereo microscopes use radiated light for examination or to see the particular object. When light is reflected, it becomes easy for viewer to view the thick objects which cannot be seen anyway. In compound microscope, these thick objects cannot be seen readily and easily.

These microscopes help view objects placed in dark or view objects in night with a decent resolution. The viewer, researcher or scientist can view the particular object from a distant place due to its high resolution capabilities. There are various microscopes which are available with various decent look, design, and style. The models of these microscopes which are mostly used for magnification or view objects are Zeiss Stemi 2000-C stereo microscope, Meiji RZ Stereo microscope, and many other. These microscopes are having resolution capacity of up to 100 times of original object view.

Metallurgical Microscopes help in measuring thin objects, and its defects. These microscopes are used in analyzing and inspection of several micron sized objects include in fabrication of metal industry and others for make check over quality of products manufactured. Metallurgical microscope also provides customized services to its clients. It takes care of the specifications provided by the clients for its custom made microscope. It also provides its services in installing components in CCTV cameras, portable video camera to computer system and other electronic systems not only specializes in home based solutions but also in commercial establishments. It provides inclined microscopes, inverted microscopes, upright microscopes, and many other models.

Olympus Microscopes has made a leap forward in microscope industry. It comes with advanced software packages in medical field. It provides a flawless application of the system. It provides microscopes with several models as inverted microscopes, upright microscopes, Virtual Microscopy, etc.

Wireless Industrial Remotes – An Era of Innovation

Wireless
industrial control system is not a recent addition into the
technological world, but only now it has achieved a great acclaim among
the modern people. In the technological world, the use of wireless
industrial control has become really essential as the gigantic machines
need to be controlled by it. By using the radio remote control one can
control the gigantic machines in an easy way. It would always ensure the
safety use of the machines. It also reduces the need of manpower.

Wireless
industrial control system is a new innovation of modern science. The
manufacturers are producing such industrial remotes that are compatible
with any of your existing machines. You can install it easily and can
use for any of present system as well as can include it any of your
existing process controls system. The wide variety of these wireless
remotes has made it possible to use for any kind of gigantic machines.
Today, it is widely used in various industrial sectors and in process
controls. They are being used as a leak detector in bulk transport
systems, as an anti-theft control system in trucks and trailers,
refueling system in aircrafts, and also in industrial petroleum sectors.

The
main advantage of these systems is that they can be installed easily.
No engineering as well as technical expertise is needed to install these
radio remotes. Most of the manufacturers provide easy handbook or
manuals guidebooks that educates the users how to install it. Repairing
and other maintenance can be done by the users themselves. In case of a
major repairing a normal electrician can manage the whole task. However,
one should always use registered electrician in order to fix the
problem of remote controls.

Another important feature of these
industrial remotes is that they are empowered with frequency hopping
spread spectrum technology. This unique feature ensures the interference
free control of the radio remotes. During any kinds of signal loss or
interference, the system can shut down the whole machine. It ensures the
safety of the valuable machines.

These
industrial remote controllers are also equipped with a high power
transmitter and a receiver. The transmitters, that are equipped in these
systems, can catch the tiniest of signals. The range of the
transmitters depends on the type and model of the system. However, the
normal frequency range of these remote controllers is 2.4GHz. Apart from
that the industrial wireless remote controllers are also available with
optional869.7 and 902-928MHz. Normal 12/24 VDC battery is used as a
power supply in these systems. The battery is so powerful and they have
30hrs of continuous usage capacity. Normal lithium rechargeable battery
is used and they can be charged up by 12/24 VDC charger.

Radio
remote controls are being produced by the manufacturers with modern
innovation and technology. They also provide complete service guarantee
as well as manufacturing warranty with their products. Apart from that,
the other necessary accessories are also provided with the products.
Some of these accessories include charger, handheld radio joystick,
leather case etc.

Innovation Mining – A Must For Team Building And Corporate Growth

How to improve business and grow it manifolds? This is the
most common question faced by companies, whether big or small. The
challenge to boost earnings and improve the company’s share value is the
broad objective. To achieve this, it is first essential to build teams
that are synergized. Strong team dynamics can render an organization
profitable and its operations productive. This is also what holds for
innovation. Strong team dynamics is conducive for innovation to breed.
It is true that the collective experience of many weighs greater than of
a single person, the same holds true for innovation.

Biggest hurdle to innovation

Most
multinationals, or for that matter small startups, get involved in the
mathematics of their growth. In the cycle of making more profits and
increasing the company’s share value. In this rut, they tend to overlook
the importance of major initiatives. In their efforts to sustain
growth, the companies become averse to risk-taking and hence choose the
incremental product and service expansion. In short, rather than taking
an out-of-the-box approach and introducing a revolutionary product or
service, they rather play it safe.

What is innovating mining and how it can help?

Innovation
mining is a technique that helps a company scout their employees,
customers, and at times general public for ideas, or innovations. For
instance, if you scout for problems from the masses, you can tumble upon
some innovative idea to deal with the problem that in turn can bring
along a major development. This is a technique that opens up the
innovation process and helps company value anybody and everybody as
contributions can come from any direction and not just within the
company. However it is difficult to train outsiders on innovation,
companies certainly can take help of specialized corporate training
providers to let their employees know about innovation.

Innovation training – Is it possible?

Is
it possible to teach an employee to be creative? Can a creativity or
innovation workshop help in doing the trick? The answers to these
questions are tricky. A handful of people in your company would feel
that they are creative and can come up with innovative ideas. The rest
would follow the tried and tested ways which restrict creativity. In
today’s corporate culture, left brain thinking has taken precedence. In
short, logics, rational, precision and analytics rule the roost. How to
bring the switch to right brain thinking pattern? While it is a common
notion that creative people have the innate quality of being different,
it is to be noted that people can be guided to think in a certain way
via innovation training program.

Mental blocks that restrict
your mind to tried and tested patterns of thinking can be unlocked by
innovation management program. A workshop by an expert experiential
innovation trainer can help corporate guide their employees to know
about different thinking patterns. In short, Innovation development
Programs can help open the unexplored doors of creativity.

Windows Mobile Phones Easy-to-use Innovation

There is an increasing trend of offering high-end technology through compact and crisp devices. Windows mobile phones can definitely be classified under such a bracket. These are the mobile phones based over the windows operating system. After PCs, laptops and notebooks; it is the turn of the mobile phone devices to offer windows.

Microsoft, the software behemoth has developed the windows mobile operating system, to be used precisely in smart Mobile phones and mobile devices. All of it started in the year 2000 when the first version of the Windows Mobile Phone, Pocket PC 2000 was launched. After that came Pocket PC 2002, followed by Windows Mobile 2003, Windows Mobile 2003 SE, Windows mobile 5, Windows Mobile 6, Windows Mobile 6.1, Windows Phone 6.5, Windows Phone6.5.1, Windows Phone 6.5.3, and Windows Phone 6.5.3, and Windows Phone 6.5.5, all in the chronological order of their launch. The latest version is Windows Phone 7.

Among all the versions, Windows Phone 6.5 is the most popular. However, all the versions performed well in the markets. Though, common people too can be found using Windows Mobile Phones, these are quite a favorite with the corporate professionals and businessmen. Apart from all the high-end features another reason for their popularity is the kind of flexibility attached with them in terms of the windows applications.

There are many mobile handset companies that are manufacturing Windows Mobile Phones. HTC is leading the pack among them. Some of the well known HTC Window Mobile Phone are HTC- Touch 2, HTC- Touch HD 2, HTC Touch Viva, HTC Snap, HTC S511, HTC- Tytn II, HTC Tpouch Pro2. Apart HTC, there are Motorola Q 9H, Samsung Omnia2, Acer C1, Samsung Saga and many other handsets functioning over Microsoft operating systems.

Though, all these differ a bit in terms of their specific features, what is common among all of them is that all of them are easy to use. This is the specific reason increasingly more users are placing them on the top of their preferred handset lists.

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Technological Innovation Xbox 360

As
you well know every so often companies come out with a new edition of
their game playing systems. For example, the Xbox 360 is the more recent
edition of the unique Program. The biggest disadvantage to this new
technological innovation is the fact that the old games that you really
like so much will not perform on your new system. This can be very
frustrating and even a little frustrating even though there are so many
features with the more recent controllers. Luckily, the makers of Xbox
360 found a fix for your issue. If you’ve been putting off buying a 360
because you want to keep playing your favorite games, don’t delay any
longer. You will be happy to know that the Xbox 360system has in reverse
abilities.

The
produces of the Technological innovation- Xbox 360 game playing systems
took this issue into consideration and designed a way to perform games
made for the unique Program on the more recent Program. It’s referred to
as “backwards capability”. This was an excellent concept that has been a
big hit with all gamers. There are three ways in which you can perform
your Video games on the 360 game playing systems. One of them will
require a broadband d online access. This is the easiest and quickest
way to make the necessary changes to enjoy your unique games with the
new system. Here’s how it works.

You begin by getting a Program
Stay consideration. It can be either the gold or silver consideration it
doesn’t matter which. Here, you will be able to get the upgrade you
need for your body with your Program Stay consideration. Search for the
upgrade computer file, do as instructed to begin the procedure and delay
for it to finish. Now you are ready to perform those games you first
dropped in really like with. You will also be able to stay modified on
all the latest information concerning Video games and systems.

The
second way involves burning a CD or DVD. If you have dial-up online
access you can go to Program.com and download the upgrade computer file
to a CD or DVD that you can place in your Program. It’s easy that
shouldn’t take very long. The third choice is to purchase an upgrade DVD
from Program.com. You can purchase the DVD for free but you will have
to delay for it to come in the mail. However, if this is your only
choice you may not mind the delay.

It’s
important to realize that there may be a few Video games that still
can’t be performed on the Technological innovation- Xbox 360. This is
because the company is making the changes starting with the most
well-known games first. Some of the most well-known games include Mobile
1 & 2, Bad Boys 2, Incredible Force, Dead or in existence 3 and
Disaster 3. Of course, these are just a few of the games that can be
performed on the 360, there are many more.

The produces of
Technological innovation- Xbox 360 had a smart concept with in reverse
ability and it’s something that you are sure to see with all new game
playing systems.

Leading the Innovation of Cell Phone Technology

Do you ever ask yourself, what happened before we had cell phones? Then you think back and remember how it all started. First we had the beepers where we had to pull over and call our friends from a pay phone. Then the first cell phones were created. I remember in the 90’s I had to carry around a big fake Louis Vuitton purse so I could fit the phone inside. It was a huge phone with a long black antenna that didn’t fold in. Now we have cell phones that keep getting smaller and smaller and smarter and smarter. Our cell phones are so smart we don’t even need keypads anymore. We now have smart phones with a touch pad and touch screen panel technology that allows us to access the internet, map out directions, take photos and video, listen to music, watch movies and even update our social media websites. Its technology at its fines and here are two mobile phones that are leading the innovation of cell phone technology.

The iPhone Apple announced the iPhone in January 2007. This phone is a multi-media smart phone with a multi touch screen panel. The cell phone is one of the first to implement a virtual keypad on a touch panel screen instead of a physical keypad. It was also one of the first phones to offer visual voicemail along and iTunes capabilities. When caller ID came out I bet 90% of people started screening their phone calls. Now with visual voicemail you can screen the messages you want to listen to and even listen to them in the order you want. With iTunes capabilities your phone is also a mini iPod that you can plug into your car or strap to your arm for a run. It’s completely flexible. The only thing Apple missed on the launch of the iPhone was GPS capability. But, not for long in July 2008 Apple introduced the new 3G iPhone. The 3G iPhone was faster, smaller, cheaper and had GPS capabilities. Both phones synch easily to your computer for software updates that keep making the phone better and better. The iPhone paved the way for advanced cell phone technology.

5800 Xpress Music Nokia is getting ready to unveil the 5800 Xpress Music mobile phone by year’s end. The new device was designed to give Apple’s iPhone some competition. Along with the iPhone the 5800 will have touch screen panel technology and music capabilities. Per an article from PC World the similarities between the two phones stop there. The Nokia’s touch screen virtual keypad will also work with the touch of a fingernail or stylus unlike the iPhone which uses the touch of your finger pad. The new Nokia went after a more user-friendly software approach as well. Some of the features include a contact bar with photos of friends that you most frequently contact that you can send text messages from. And, going one step further than the iPhone, you can also add feeds to your phone that will alert you when friends update their social networking websites. The new Nokia also supports flash software another element the iPhone does not have. Other cool features include video capture, handwriting recognition and louder surround sound speakers. And the best part about the phone is the cost. The new Nokia will cost half the price of the competitive touch screen phones in the market.

We’ve come a long way from beepers and large cell phones. With the advance in technology we can purchase not only a cell phone but a smart cell phone that doubles as your PDA and iPod and it’s small enough to fit in your pocket.

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Green Innovation – Time To Be Eco Green!

In this millennium, green innovation is a magnificent approach to set in ecological traits in your business practices, services, or products. It is a fundamental approach to develop new green markets based on new concepts. Nevertheless, it is a procedure to find chance and recognize the way to capitalize business by making it smarter. To get involved in the eco green race, you first need to understand the market and find unmet requirements. Look for rising trends and identifying solutions for issues by testing it in the market. For best result, enhancing and refining it to make it ready for advancement. Implementing traditional methods can yield astounding results. Creativity and cutting edge ways can bring great opportunities, if you carefully study the market. Check out in what and which way your services and products are used in a different way in the market. Glance at various industries and the way they tackle issues.

Many small and big business are taking wisely with green innovation. Progressive insights having true psychological facts, requirements and cognition are imperative. Certainly with these techniques you can easily put them to your business ways. But you have to be very careful to choose the right employ who would be conducting the research. Make it ensure that the methods are executed in the right manner and the conclusions are legitimate. Once you get imminent on unmet requirements and upcoming developments, you can gear to describe problem and look for ways to solve it in a wise way. To solve critical problem is known as ideation. Your prime approach should be to generate workable ideas and great concepts to hike your sales, products and services. Ideas must be experimented for application, considerate and significance. In addition, theory features will be assessed and all data must be collected for getting knowledge about the market. The data is qualitative and appealing that includes the concept that audience are holding. Preferably, you will provide this notion as a service, product or prototype. For green innovation, there should be a constant communication between the employer and employees. This will bring huge amount of benefits and consequences. Always use archetype to connect your customers or clients in the innovation procedure by offering platform for them to provide you ideas on their skills. Unquestionably, the learning that you will achieve in the procedure will give your huge success in the green innovation goals. Moreover, you can implement this concept to suppliers, employees, customers, and clients to make your business go green. In order to add green attributes to your business and to develop it to a revolutionary way, Green Innovation is the ideal way. For more eco green business methods, do visit Smartwwc.com. Today!

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