...I have chosen the four suggested idea-generated techniques of Brainstorming, Analogy and Cross Fertilization, Futuring and TRIZ to compare. A common thread among them is to go beyond the obvious. All are designed to generate numerous possible solutions to find an acceptable outcome. The four techniques I selected might best apply in the following situations. Brainstorming – When a person is having trouble thinking of ideas a group is formed to bounce ideas off each other. An example would be a manufacturer looking for a way to increase production. The management team would form a group to generate ideas. Once an idea is out there, others in the group can either build on it or they can use that suggestion to formulate new thoughts. I think Brainstorming starts a chain reaction in everyone’s thought process. Analogy and Cross Fertilization – A few years back we had a solar eclipse that I wanted to photograph but because of the cost for the filter I would have needed, I missed the opportunity. I started looking into other areas that have to deal with bright sunlight. My thoughts started with a person being outside on a sunny day wearing sun glasses to protect their eyes. The material used on normal sunglasses would not be dark enough to look directly at the sun and therefore would burnout the sensor on my camera. Then I started thinking about how pilots deal with flying into the sun and it turned my thoughts to aviator glasses. The lens that is used on these types of glasses...
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...September 23, 2013 2 Patagonia Case Assignment Patagonia’s “futuring” capability Based on the case study provided, Patagonia is more values based than future based. They are less concerned about specific future scenarios and more focused on a values-based approach to their business, focused on sustainability. “SMO’s (Sustainable Managed Organizations) need to look at short-, medium, and longterm business horizon, and there is a specific purpose for each. The long-term view considers possible future strategic intents and the operating assumptions that will drive them whereas short-term futuring guides adjustments to the current strategic intent.” (Lawler & Worley, 2011, Ch. 5, page 111/449-ibooks). While Patagonia appears to be looking for new technology to make their products even less impactful to the environment, they are not actively engaging in scenario sessions. They did bring up the fact that the generation that currently fits in their “core” is aging. They were bringing in “outside talent” to discuss which might imply disconnect on their part to longer-term need for change. “SMO’s focus their futuring process on three effectiveness areas: financial performance, social value, and the natural environment.” (Lawler & Worley, 2011, Ch. 5, page 113/449ibooks). Patagonia is focused on four: Quality, financial, social, and environment. They seem to have hit the mark here. “SMO’s involve a lot of people in their futuring process.” (Lawler & Worley, 2011, Ch. 5, page 114/449-ibooks)...
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...GS1140 ANALYSIS 3.1 10/18/15 Generating Solutions Using Futuring Making a phone call in the year 2020 - In the future of 2020 making a phone call could be much better than it already is. They could have a machine that projects the whole person standing in front of you like a hologram. It would be much better than face time or making a normal phone call because it would be like they are standing right in front of you. Eating a meal in 2050 – Eating a meal in the year 2050 could be very different from today. I imagine it could be in the forum of a pill, you could be able to drop some water on it in a dish. Once you dropped the water on it you could put it into a machine and the machine would turn it into a full cooked meal of your choice. Doing a homework assignment in the year 2025 – Doing a homework assignment in the year 2025 would be much different because it would be virtual reality. To do your homework you would have to put on a headset and it would take you into a whole different world. It would be much better to do homework like this because it would give you an almost real life experience, opposed to reading a book and typing a paper you would actually have to jump into the situation and solve whatever problems there might be. Doing a homework assignment in the year 2025 – In the year 2025 doing homework would be a breeze, it would be a breeze because you would not have to do any work. In the year 2025 they would just inject your brain with information...
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...Jacob Binkley Problem Solving Module 3 Analysis Futuring Exercises Making a telephone call in the year 2020 I see people in the year 2020 using telephone to make calls in new ways. By that year, I expect people to completely redesign the hardware and interface of cellphones. I see the physical devices being reduced to projection instruments placed in certain devices, like a wristband, that projects the user interface onto the subjects arm. The user could the control the device with voice commands or physically touching the area the image is displayed. This would allow devices to be used while swimming or any situation that involves water. I also see them beginning to tweak the software that Stephen Hawking uses to control his computer, and implementing it into cellular devices. This would allow people with physical disabilities to use and operate a cell phone by subtle gestures of the face, eyes, and neck. This would give them the ability to communicate with words if they cannot already. Eating a family meal in 2050 I see families in 2050 eating and enjoying healthy, natural, and organic foods. I see todays American youth realizing how unhealthy we are as a society, and how malnourished our foods actually are. They will realize the things we can do to take care of our bodies, and the benefits of healthy eating. Todays youth is tomorrows parents and leaders, and they will change the ways of American society very drastically as soon as they take power. I see them starting...
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...1._____ models are mathematical models of the master budget that can react to any set of assumption about sales, costs, and product mix. A. Budgeting analysis B. Accounting C. Futuring D. Financial planning 2.A sales forecast is _____. A. a prediction of sales under a given set of conditions B. the same as a sales budget that will generate a desired level of sales C. all of these answers are correct D. the result of decisions to create conditions 3. A _____ gives the expected sales under a given set of conditions. A. sales prediction B. budget forecast C. sales forecast D. sales budget 4. _____ need cost accounting systems. A. Manufacturing firms and service organizations B. Manufacturing firms and nonprofit organizations C. Manufacturing firms, service organizations, and nonprofit organizations D. Service organizations and nonprofit organizations 5. _____ probably would not be used as a measure of activity in a flexible budget. A. Sales volume B. Number of machine hours used C. Number of hours worked by salespeople D. Number of direct labor hours worked 6. _____ are components of a master budget. A. A continuous budget and a static budget B. An operating budget and a financial budget C. A strategic plan and an operating budget D. A cash budget and an activity budget 7. The master budget quantifies targets for all of the following except _____. A. markets B. production C. sales D. cost driver activity 8. Costs...
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...Management Reset A Personal Summary and Thoughts The basic premise of Management Reset, as stated in the introduction, is “not about convincing you that organizations need to be sustainably effective; it is a book about how organizations can be sustainably effective.” The book opens with a brief management history that imparts the business, social, and economical backgrounds and well as a basic vocabulary and explanation list used in the rest of the book. We are introduced to Command and Control Organizations (CCOs), High Involvement Organizations (HIOs), and the approach that the book will focus on Sustainable Management Organizations (SMOs). We are given a general summary of the shortcomings of the former two systems or management, as well as a summary of why the reset is needed and the major components required to sustain the change. The new SMO approach employs the concepts that; They do not fear change, they embrace it, they value people, both employed and served, they actively support social well being, they consider the communities in which they operate equal to the profits and bottom lines they seek to achieve. The SMO concepts of “Organizational effectiveness” and the four core issues to “The Way Organizations Are Managed” are introduced in this section, and are the key concepts discussed throughout the rest of the book. Organizational effectiveness states sustainable effectiveness should be achieved in three areas: people, planet, and profit, also known as the...
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...to the current curriculum would mean that schools would need more teachers, which is unaffordable for many districts. Adding this requirement would also create an increase in the number of credits required for graduation. Skill Two 1. When students start college, they have to begin by getting themselves enrolled. It's kind of a hassle because there are all these rules that they have to follow even way ahead of when they actually find themselves sitting there in class. 2. After students have been on the job for eight hours, they are gonna feel dog tired. Their get up and go has got up and went. They are moving kind of slow, so it's super hard to hit the books and prepare for a college class. Skill Three Cornish, Edward. Futuring: The Exploration of the Future. Bethesda: World Future Society, 2004. Print. Bloch, Immanuel, Tilman Esslinger, Markus Greiner, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Olaf Mandel. “Quantum Phase Transition from a Superfluid to a Mott Insulator in a Gas of Ultracold Atoms.” Nature 415.6867 (2002): 39-44. Academic Search Premiere. Web. 26 Aug.2013. Skill Four 1. What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is when you use another author’s intellectual property – language, visuals or ideas - your own ways without giving proper credit. 2. When must you include in text citations in your writing? When a writer either quotes a specific source or refers to information from a specific source, Writers...
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...culture around us.” Prophetic ministry does not always require engaging in the spectacular. Oftentimes the prophet simply must read from the scrolls or religious texts in order to promote change. When Jesus announces the jubilee year in Luke 4:16-30, he is declaring that the work of faith is to engage in the work of liberation. Jesus’s inaugural sermon, anchored in the prophets, becomes normative preaching of the gospel. The poor, the blind, the captive, the oppressed and the outcast reside in every community. They abide in a world that daily attempts to ideologically detain God. My hope, in pursuing a call to ordination, is that I can help create a sanctuary of faith, hope and peace. Brueggemann informs us that, “The prophet engages in futuring fantasy.” That is, the prophet dreams big. He continues, The prophet does not ask if the vision can be implemented, for questions of implementation are of no consequence until the vision can be imagined. The imagination must come before the implementation. Our culture is competent to implement almost anything and to imagine almost nothing. My goal in attending seminary is to learn more about the symbols, imagery and doxologies of our rich Christian heritage and be able to interpret them for a hungry world. Our world is one which ceaselessly engages in the temporal with little thought of the eternal. We have abandoned the Christian tradition and have lost Christian identity, especially in the evangelical world. Without a strong church tradition...
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...Advertising is a must have component to improve the marketing for any successful business plan. Without it, the organizations are challenged to achieve market penetration, high growth rate or brand recognition. What we find however, is that in times of economic downturn or slowdown, organizations commonly will sacrifice this line item first with trimming or cut-backs. Many professionals have historically had a hard time seeing the alignment between marketing and continued profitability- viewing this discipline and its related practices as ‘discretionary’. The article ‘rediscovering market segmentation’ focuses on understanding and assessing various aspects of consumer behavior as one of the key factors to effective marketing, sales and customer satisfaction. Once you know your customer segmentation by personality type, you can create personality type. This knowledge of individual preferences related to a respondent’s personality can be leveraged to create more effective marketing campaigns and increase sales. Market segmentation is a marketing strategy that involves dividing a broad target market into subsets of consumers, who have common needs, and then designing and implementing strategies to target their needs and desires using media channels and other touch-points that best allow to reach them. Market segmentation involves dividing up the potential market for a product into groups of people who have similar needs, and then addressing these needs in a focused way. Market segments...
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...Jeff Knight GS1140 Problem Solving Theory 4/9/15 Teacher Module Three: Generating Solutions Using Futuring: As we progress in our technological world where everyone is interested in the next iPhone or Samsung Galaxy, quantum computers are still moving forward. It seems that only computer "nerds" seem to care and understand this wonder. What if all of the theories, concepts, and everything else that makes up what quantum computers are and will be, is presented in a way that everyone can understand. The way that quantum computers can be divided is into three main areas: quantum physics, quantum bits or (qubits), and their future goals. To better understand how quantum computers work, you need to start with what clearly defines a quantum computer: A quantum computer is a computer design which uses the principles of quantum physics to increase the computational power beyond what is attainable by a traditional computer. Quantum computers use two fundamental principles of quantum physics: superposition and entanglement. Quantum superposition is where the state of a physical system exists in all possible states at the same time. Then the physical system is only giving one state to the collection device. A good example of this is the famous Schrödinger's Cat, a thought experiment purposed by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935, where Schrödinger talks about having a cat in a closed box with a vial of poisonous acid with a hammer that will break the vial if any radioactivity is detected...
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...INTRODUCTION The topic that I have chosen is Human Process Interventions. Human Process Interventions means derive probably from the disciplines of psychology and social psychology and the applied fields of agencies dynamic and human members of the organization". Follow the theory of human system, DeSimone and Werner (2009 ,p. 498 ) outlined that " Human system- headquartered interventions are directed at bettering interpersonal, intragroup and intergroup relation". OD packages focused extra on interpersonal dynamics and social relation. The purpose of the exchange is to make the enterprise obtain the full abilities of productiveness and profitability, to be capable to remedy it does possess problems. The first journal article based on the topic is Organisation Development and Strategic Intervention for Enterprise Sustainability: Empirical Evidence from Nigeria. Author of this article is Khairuddin Idris (Ph.D). The second article is Understanding Large Group Intervention Processes: A complexity theory perspective by the author Michael J. Arena, PhD. The last article is Evaluating Group Interventions: A Framework for Diagnosing, Implementing, and Evaluating Group Interventions by the two authors Jacob de Lichtenberg and Manuel London. Based on these articles the authors mainly concern about how to help facilitators use current intervention idea and study to consultant their observe. Other than that, the significant relationship between teamwork and performance, for that reason...
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...DISTANCE LEARNING & OVERSEAS BLENDED COHORTS 12/3/2014 TT poojitha Contents Abstract 2 Introduction 3 Case Study 6 Market Analysis and Strategy 8 Findings 10 Conclusion 11 References 12 Abstract This paper identifies and discusses real-world strategic issues in making distance learning a “Win-Win-Win” for the primary customer(s), the general public, and the engineers. The Strata Manufacturing Company and KLASS program is used as a case study. Concepts and issues are discussed generically to promote transfer of key concepts and lessons learned to other distance learning programs. Key areas discussed are strategic vision, strategies for “how to- get-there,” customer focus, market analysis, and findings of companies. Introduction What strategic management needs to be employed and what has to be considered by a company to enhance the skills of employee through distance learning? The strategic management approach for this paper includes the strategies for attaining the organization vision through formulating what is referred to as strategic vision. These concepts are discussed in general and for an efficient aerospace engineer distance learning program. The distance learning program chosen is KLASS (Knowledge and Learning in Advanced Supply Systems) which supports the learning of individuals and organizations in the automotive and aerospace industries. The distance learning and its market opportunities are addressed, as this is one of the major reasons...
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...BUSINESS ETHICS Student’s Name: Ce Wang Student’s ID: 1226656 Instructor’s Name: Peter Goalby Course Name: New Advances In Business University Of Bedfordshire Date Assignment is due: 20/03/2015 Abstract Business ethics looks at whether the company is heading in the right course by adhering to the various factors such as integrity, fairness and reliability. The ethics set up by the organization plays a vital role in the hiring process and the business management practices. Running an ethical organization is vital in financial matters and in creating the morale and loyalty of the personnel. Ethics are also relevant to the business as it ensures that there is ethical behavior among the workers in the organization. Ethics are also relevant to the business as it aids in creation of an ethical organizational culture. Most of the organizations when posed this question believe that it is the employees who are chiefly responsible for ensuring that their work meet the ethical considerations. However, the employees are not the only ones responsible for business ethics, the employees need support from the management or from the employer. This paper has a look at the ethical issues surrounding the steel manufacturing industry and the Healthcare industry. It also looks at the relevance that ethics have on business, sustainability and corporate responsibility. The paper also looks critically at the connection of business ethics to the organizational culture. Lastly, it...
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...CHAPTER 1 & 2 1. (Points: 10.0) The people who suggested the wrong solutions in the examples in chapter 1 of the textbook were all ... 1. looking for the easy options. 2. incompetent and unprofessional. 3. lazy people. 4. competent, hard-working professionals. 2. (Points: 10.0) A vision is the ability to see the way things ought to be or will be in the future. True False 3. (Points: 10.0) Finding and solving the real problem is important to minimise lost time, money, and effort. True False 4. (Points: 10.0) Exercising our problem-solving skills frequently will make us better able to ... 1. achieve our goal of choosing the best career. 2. achieve our goal of impressing our bosses. 3. achieve our goal of choosing the best solution. 4. achieve our goal of finding multiple solutions. 5. (Points: 10.0) The textbook lists 7 habits of highly effective people. To 'Synergize' means to ... 1. Aggressively seek new ideas and innovations. 2. Continually review and prioritise your goals. 3. Identify the key issues and results that would constitute a fully acceptable solution to all. 4. Help bring out the best in everyone else. 6. (Points: 10.0) There are things that can be done to guarantee that mistakes will never happen. True False 7. (Points: 10.0) Paradigm pioneers are continually ... 1. searching for ways to impress stakeholders. 2. looking for opportunities to do less...
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