January 2008
15 posts
Dell's Regeneration Site →
Greener Gadgets Conference →
On February 1st, 2008 in New York City industry leaders, entrepreneurs, journalists, and designers will gather to discuss the business case for the greening of the consumer electronics industry. Greener Gadgets is a one day conference featuring key representatives from some of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world, innovators from academic thinktanks, members of startups focused...
Core77 Design Blog - Industrial Design Supersite →
Some really innovative designs from across the globe.
Social Entrepreneurship: Ten Questions with David... →
David Bornstein is the author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas. He recently updated this book, and it’s now available for the first time in paperback. No less than Nelson Mandela said the book is “wonderfully hopeful and enlightening.” David is also the author of The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank, which chronicles the worldwide...
Ten Questions with Scott Berkun, Author of "The... →
Scott Berkun worked on the Internet explorer team at Microsoft from 1994-1999. He is the author of a recently released book called The Myths of Innovation. He also wrote the 2005 bestseller, The Art of Project Management. He teaches a graduate course in creative thinking at the University of Washington, runs the sacred places architecture tour at NYC’s GEL conference, and writes about innovation,...
Unified Structured Inventive Thinking →
USIT encourages the rapid application of intuitive problem solving called brainstorming (in which technologists excel) and the quick collection of “low hanging fruit”. It also sets the stage for beginning unconventional methodology that stresses left-brain/right-brain participation in problem solving (logic/creativity). USIT fits between problem identification and the selection of solution...
Advanced Systematic Inventive Thinking (ASIT)... →
Thinking Within a Focused and Constrained Environment To Come Up With Practical, Ultra-creative Ideas Developing New Products: Six Powerful Thinking Tools Sacrifice: Remove an important part of your product and try to find a new value for the invalid product. Parasite Product: Remove a part from your product and replace it with an element from the environment. Unification: The Unification tool...
Genrich Altshuller's Theory of Inventive Problem... →
“Theory of inventive problem solving”. It was developed by Soviet engineer and researcher Genrich Altshuller and his colleagues starting in 1946. It has been evolving ever since. Today, TRIZ is a methodology, tool set, knowledge base, and model-based technology for generating innovative ideas and solutions for problem solving. TRIZ provides tools and methods for use in problem...
“[P]lease remember people, that no matter who you are, and what you do to live,...”
– Elwood Blues, The Blues Brothers
Ideo →
IDEO helps organizations innovate through design. Independently ranked by global business leaders as one of the world’s most innovative companies, we use design thinking to help clients navigate the speed, complexity, and opportunity areas of today’s world. We help organizations in the business, government, education, and social sectors innovate and grow in three ways: We identify...
Good Magazine on YouTube →
Great Podcasts!
“Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.”
– World Vision founder Dr. Bob Pierce
Think Personality: Featured Non-Profits →
A blog with some interesting SE organizations.