... and Business Course: 5876 Personal skills -‐ Problem solving Instructor: Desislava Vacheva (BSc.MSc.) Korbinian Dennerlein H0954189 CREATIVE TECHNIQUES Innovation and creativity foster and generate a crucial resource in today’s constantly changing business environment. It is essential to handle this resource carefully and to act target oriented in order to gain a sustainable competitive advantage. Nevertheless, it is important not to lose focus on the core business and to keep the balance between exploitation and exploration. Therefore, it is important to apply creativity in the right way. This application should preserve the stable and working organization from being too chaotic. A general way to divide the various approaches is to cluster them into divergent and convergent techniques. Divergent techniques aim at generating a high number of ideas in order to have a wide range of possible solutions to choose from. In comparison, convergent techniques deal with a certain problem and search step-by-step for a single right solution.1 In the beginning of this paper I want to explain one divergent concept in detail and briefly introduce a few other techniques. Afterwards I will focus on a convergent solution and shortly explore some more approaches. Moreover, I will explore examples of problem solving techniques in reality. To complete the picture I will explain my personal...
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...Website Analysis New Product Development Website Analysis: Intromark Incorporation Website Link: http://www.intromark.com/index.aspx Review of Website Overview Intromark is an invention licensing and marketing company that provides businesses with a link to thousands of new products and ideas. The company is able to locate products that meet any business criteria. The resources for finding an invention that is suitable for a particular industry is though InventHelp and INPEX. The company is also able to provide licensing and acquiring rights to an invention work directly through Intromark’s team. Layout The layout is centralized, which makes the eyes immediately focus on the information on the site. Intromark’s website is well organized and upscale. The centralized layout allows information to be easily found on the website. Consumers can easily determine what type of service is offered by Intromark. The website tabs are prioritized based on importance. For an example, the first tab is “about Intromark “which provides details of the company. The most important thing is consumers understanding the services or products that are offered; therefore, it is located on the first tab. The company has a good understanding that their visitors are potential consumers. Color/Font The company chose to use a professional blue color to depict their image. The color is boring and it does not draw consumers into their website. Although Intromark is marketing their...
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...How do I . . . Write a Reflection? Why reflective writing? Reflection offers you the opportunity to consider how your personal experiences and observations shape your thinking and your acceptance of new ideas. Professors often ask students to write reading reflections. They do this to encourage you to explore your own ideas about a text, to express your opinion rather than summarise the opinions of others. Reflective writing can help you to improve your analytical skills because it requires you to express what you think, and more significantly, how and why you think that way. In addition, reflective analysis asks you to acknowledge that your thoughts are shaped by your assumptions and preconceived ideas; in doing so, you can appreciate the ideas of others, notice how their assumptions and preconceived ideas may have shaped their thoughts, and perhaps recognize how your ideas support or oppose what you read. Types of Reflection Experiential Reflection: Popular in professional programs, like business, nursing, forensics and education, reflection is an important part of making connections between theory and practice. When you are asked to reflect upon experience in a placement, you do not only describe your experience, but you evaluate it based on ideas from class. You can assess a theory or approach based on your observations and practice and evaluate your own knowledge and skills within your professional field. This opportunity to take the time to think ...
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...do people get news ideas" absolutely relate to our course and LINKS. Working as a team is to bring people in many skills together in order to solve problems, to gather information and even to get new ideas. I found some quote that relate to this, as followed: If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an "idea" and I have an "idea" and we exchange these "ideas", then each of us will have two ideas.---George Bernard Shaw According to Isaac Asimov' essay, The optimum number of the group would probably not be very high. I should guess that no more than five would be wanted. A larger group might have a larger total supply of information, but there would be the tension of waiting to speak, which can be very frustrating. It is absolutely true. Although having a large number of people within team may provide a lot of information, it will frustrate to members. Then within the team should collect only appropriate people such as different skills. However, teams have proved that they can make many great solutions and provide several new ideas, but sometime those Ideas may be similar because they do, work, think in the same or similar environment. According to the essay, sometimes teams need to have a conference at different places such as coffee stores and someone' home to have new environment and it easier to get new ideas. To improve individual skills are also important. I believe that sometimes...
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...the audience is perfectly capable of reading the paper themselves and in most cases has already done so. Here is a different approach. If you're presenting the paper: • Read the paper ahead of time, and decide what you think of the ideas presented in the paper. (Here are some tips on how to read a research paper.) In particular, decide whether you think the paper has some good ideas or whether it belongs in the recycling bin. Keep in mind that very few papers have no worthwhile ideas whatsoever; however, if you're convinced that your paper belongs in this category, follow the steps listed below for critiquing a paper. • Next, decide which idea is the best idea (or a small cluster of related ideas) in the paper. "Best" may mean most novel, most central, most relevant, most clever, most important, and so on. Write down this idea, preferably in your own words, and a one-line justification for why this idea is the best one. (This step is particularly important when the paper you're presenting is your own.) • Now comes the crucial step: Figure out how to get your audience as quickly as possible to the point where they can understand this idea. • Next, if necessary, elaborate the idea and fill in the details. Explain things like how the idea came about, how it was fleshed out in the paper, how it was proven, what benefit it had, what difference did it...
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...Between Concept Of James Mill And John Stuart Mill JAMES MILL states that mind is just like machine. James Mill applied the doctrine of mechanism to the human mind with a rare directness and comprehensiveness JOHN STUART MILL says that mind played an important and active role in the association of ideas. John Stuart Mill argued against the mechanistic position of his father, who viewed the mind as passive, something acted upon by external stimuli. CREATIVE SYNTHESIS the idea given by Stuart Mill. The notion that complex ideas formed from simple ideas take on new qualities, the combination of the mental elements creates something greater than or different from the sum of the original elements. MY VIEWS ABOUT THIS CONCEPT: * Human mind comes up with ideas; human mind does associates one idea with another. For example, 2+2 =4 but it can also 22, so it depend on human mind how to perceive it. * Mind is not like machine this concept is limited. * Chemists were demonstrating the concept of synthesis, in which chemical compounds were found to exhibit attributes and qualities not present in their component parts or elements. CONCLUSION: This is clear that mind is not like a machine because this idea is not correct as well as association is the fundamental function of mind so it depend on humans how they can perceive. The process of creative synthesis is also...
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...use the word `idea` in lots of different contexts: `idea` may describe thoughts and suggestions (It would be an awesome idea to spend the winter holiday in Austria), new concepts (The idea of this website is to help people match their pets) or even opinions and beliefs (My idea is that public transportation remains the best way to travel across the city). However, this wide variety of uses creates a little bit of confusion: if the ideas are so ubiquitous, why, in many cases, it seems so difficult to make them happen? Cobb, the main character from Inception, has a possible answer. No idea is simple when you need to plant it in somebody else’s mind, he states. Indeed, ideas represent only a basic step (yet an important one, for sure) in the evolution: they act like a bridge between `imagining` and `doing`. What is really interesting to be followed here is the way ideas transform themselves when meeting the collective mind: either they are validated and accepted or they die. Ideas are important. At the same time, ideas surround us: they are in our heads, in the people around us, in places, buildings, animals, what someone is wearing, a snippet of conversation, something you hear, a smell. Basically, ideas are everywhere since they act as mental representations of the world. Thus, ideas begin in the mind: they are the object of thoughts (Adler: 1981, p. 14) . Moreover, ideas make the world, for they are the guide to future practice. Even the flimsiest ideas rooted in prejudice...
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... Anthonia Lawson Professor: Barbara Carder December 20, 2014 Ideal Leader Paper Having an ideal leader is very important in reaching a goal in a work place or getting things in a timely manner. The strategy that would be discussed will be the 7th one which is “Problem solved in a step by step way”. Before a problem can be solved, the problem must be stated clearly in order that the people trying to find the solution must know exactly what the problem is. The next step will be to gather useful information and all available resources that would be used in solving the problem. The next in finding a solution is the brainstorming stage. This stage will be the stage to get all the people involved in solving the problem together and think about what to do in order to resolve the issue. At this time, a lot of ideas will be suggested but the most relevant one will be chosen among all the ideas. After collecting all suggested ideas, there is need to evaluate each idea one by one to see how it will useful in solving the issue at hand. After this the best will be chosen out of all the ideas gathered. A plan must be designed as to how the idea chosen will be carried out. A timetable must be included, and role assigned to every member of the committee. All the resources that are available to be used must be available at this time. It is very important for members of the committee to be very careful while doing this entire plan because there is bound to be disagreement among...
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...What type of chemicals were being disposed? What type of symptoms are people having while being sick? I would also ask, how is the company disposing the chemicals? and How long has the company been disposing of chemicals in an unsafe way? I think these questions are some of the most important questions and investigating the cause of the illnesses in the people in the community. When looking at problems and issues I think it's always important to as the first three questions when? how? and where? I think these are the best questions to ask because it's going to help get to the root of the issue. This situation is definitely an problem. In Chapter 7 it states "A problem means deciding what action will change the situation for the best." ( Ruggiero, 2012) With that said, that is exactly what we are doing to make the situation better; deciding what action is that to solve the problem. If this problem is not solved soon then I feel that it can definitely turn into a huge issue. For further investigation I would speak to the source of the problem. Specifically I would talk to the developers of the community first. Then, most importantly I would also talk to the victims. I feel that it is equally important too talk to the developers and the victims because that is going to be the best way to solve the problem and to rectify the problem. I think you could also help to talk to friends or family members that are around the people who are ill so we can further investigate what they started...
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...The five steps in the writing process are, * Prewriting, this I believe is the most important part in the writing process because you write your ideas down and what you are going to write. Without this step, I don’t believe you would have a good, well thought out essay. * Outlining, I believe this is very important for the writing process because it helps you write your ideas down so that way when you go to do the writing you have all the ideas and thoughts down right in front of you. * Drafting, this is really where all the thoughts and ideas come out on paper so that way you can put them together and perform a legit letter, essay, etc. I think that when you go through and write these drafts it makes it easier to find the mistakes and fix them before the actually writing * Revising and editing, this step to me is very important to me because it gives the person the chance to fix any mistakes and make new improvements and add things they think need to be there. * Editing this is very important because it helps you find mistakes and learn from them so you will already know when it comes to doing your first real essay. It is important to follow a structured writing process when writing an essay because it will help you a lot with writing and show you step by step how to write a successful essay. By following these steps, you can develop a nice, well organized, well thought out essay and be able to get a good grade. But if you do not follow these...
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...Chapter 2 Recognizing Opportunities and Generating Ideas 1) BenchPrep, the company profiled in the opening feature for Chapter 2, sells an iPhone app to help students prepare for the GMAT and other exams. The original idea for the company stemmed from the founders' recognition that if people could use their iPhones to study for the GMAT: A) they wouldn't have to carry heavy study books around and they could maximize their study time by catching a few minutes of studying between meetings and on similar occasions B) they could study more questions and a computer within the app could keep track of their progress on practice exams C) they could save money by not having to buy multiple study guides and a small computer within the app could keep track of their progress on practice exams D) they wouldn't have to carry heavy study books around and they could interact online with other people preparing for the GMAT and similar exams E) they could maximize their study time by catching a few minutes of studying between meetings and on similar occasions and they could save money by not having to buy multiple study guides Answer: A Diff: 2 Page Ref: 41 Topic: Identifying and Recognizing Opportunities AACSB: Reflective Thinking Objective: Describe the role of entrepreneurs and small business 2) A(n) ________ is a favorable set of circumstances that creates a need for a new product, service, or business. A) idea B) scheme C) design D) proposal E) opportunity Answer:...
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...writing. You can have fantastic ideas, but if those ideas aren't presented in an organized fashion, you will lose your readers (and fail to achieve your goals in writing). The Basic Rule: Keep one idea to one paragraph The basic rule of thumb with paragraphing is to keep one idea to one paragraph. If you begin to transition into a new idea, it belongs in a new paragraph. There are some simple ways to tell if you are on the same topic or a new one. You can have one idea and several bits of supporting evidence within a single paragraph. You can also have several points in a single paragraph as long as they relate to the overall topic of the paragraph. If the single points start to get long, then perhaps elaborating on each of them and placing them in their own paragraphs is the route to go. Elements of a paragraph To be as effective as possible, a paragraph should contain each of the following: Unity, Coherence, A Topic Sentence, and Adequate Development. As you will see, all of these traits overlap. Using and adapting them to your individual purposes will help you construct effective paragraphs. Unity The entire paragraph should concern itself with a single focus. If it begins with one focus or major point of discussion, it should not end with another or wander within different ideas. Writing transitions Good transitions can connect paragraphs and turn disconnected writing into a unified whole. Instead of treating paragraphs as separate ideas, transitions can help readers...
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...and reflective observation. On individual, that is really dominant with the divergence and has a strong concrete experimentation and reflective observation skills. This type of person is innovative and imaginative and is going to love to work in groups. They are people-oriented, feeling-oriented and group-oriented. They do care about the diversity of culture around the group. These people are able to look at things from different perspectives. They are sensitive. They prefer to watch rather than do, tending to gather information and use imagination to solve problems. They are best at viewing concrete situations several different viewpoints. Kolb called this style 'Diverging' because these people perform better in situations that require ideas-generation, for example, brainstorming. People with a Diverging learning style have broad cultural interests and like to gather information. They are interested in people, tend to be imaginative and emotional, and tend to be strong in the arts. They prefer to work in groups, to listen with an open mind and to receive personal feedback. The second one is seemed as the assimilating. This type of person is a combination of...
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...toastmasters and most welcomed guest, very good evening. Creativity is indispensible for success in today’s competitive word, either it is professional or personal life, or any of the business it is important. Creativity is the ability to generate new ideas or invent something new. Some creative ideas are astonishing and brilliant, while others are just simple, good, practical ideas that no one seems to have thought of yet. So how can we as adults regain and maintain our spirit of creativity? I will take you through three simple ways by which we can be creative, before we go to these tips, look on few examples where simple creativity thinking has helped their business One side PPT attached 1. Take good care of yourself. Good nutrition, a regular exercise plan and taking time to relax are all important to the creative process. When we feel good, our senses heighten, and we can be at our best creatively. Take time for yourself each day. Overscheduling is an enemy of creativity, so make sure you give yourself some down time and allow your creativity to break through. 2. Learn how to be ambidexterous. This causes you to use both sides of your brain. One side for logic and reason and the other side for creativity. If you can activate both sides of your brain frequently then creative ideas will flow to you much easier. Try doing things that involve using...
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...Summary - If you Build it, will they come?? Innovation and new Ideas are valuable and change the prospective of any Industry however before jumping to conclusion it is important to know the market and analyze if there is market and if the space if profitable enough. As explained in book, most of the startups fails because they do not test market early on and concentrate on product and idea than the feasibility of it. To succeed the same, the author defines a process “Ready, Aim and Fire”. I will an example of consulting company who works with two financial angles first is to work with entrepreneurs and incubator companies with a percentage of share and second to work with middle sized companies with direct money transactions. READY First is to understand the market on multiple fronts including size, growth rate, emerging trends, competitors and expert viewpoints. All these factor are essential in understanding the concept and underlying idea. As stated by Steven Johnson in “Where good idea come from”, “The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.” To bring new part you don’t only need to understand what is already on the table and what competitors are doing to bring something new. Example: The more players an industry has more consumer friendly it becomes. It not only give power to customers but it forces organizations to distinguish themselves. To improve the customer...
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