...|[pic] |Syllabus | | |School of Business | | |OI/361 Version 2 | | |Innovation, Design, and Creativity for a | | |Competitive Advantage | Copyright © 2012, 2008 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course will provide students with a solid foundation in innovation, design, and creativity. Additionally, students will be prepared to apply relevant principles, tools, and techniques to promote and sustain organizational innovation for competitive advantage. Policies Faculty and students will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure...
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...|[pic] |Course Syllabus | | |School of Business | | |OI/361 Version 1 | | |Innovation, Design, and Creativity | | |for a Competitive Advantage | Copyright © 2009, 2008 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course will provide students with a solid foundation in innovation, design, and creativity. Additionally, students will be prepared to apply relevant principles, tools, and techniques to promote and sustain organizational innovation for competitive advantage. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change...
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...I watched the presentation by Sue Austin titled Sue Austin: Deep sea diving… in a wheelchair. This was an amazing about the power of never stop believing. Sue Austin took a preconceived conception of how we see wheelchair bound people and threw it right out the window. She wanted to break out of the mold of a helpless wheelchair bound individual and into thinking no matter what happens in life you can do anything. This video can be found at http://www.ted.com/talks/sue_austin_deep_sea_diving_in_a_wheelchair.html. The speaker does an amazing job inspiring and getting her audience excited about the lecture. She effectively address’s her audience with just the right amount of information for the audience. She gives just enough back stories to her condition to let you know what happened without making it an all about the disease that took her legs. She gives information on what motivated her and inspired her to create a new outlook on wheelchairs. She effectively keeps everyone’s interest no matter what they came for; even if they had only stumbled in they would have been interested in the lecture. The Audience is immediately sucked into the intriguing women on the stage. Wondering what she has to say and how she will motivate them to do anything. They sit in rapt silence wondering at the words and strength that are being displayed on stage. The information is absorbed by everyone old and young. Effective is not a word that could describe the effect this lecture had on the people...
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...Spanish II – Chapter 4 Project Power Point Presentation Autobiography – 50 points Project is due on Monday, April 29th, 2013 (10% off per day late) Prepare an autobiography using Power Point. Write a total of 12 sentences about yourself in Spanish talking about what you were like when you were younger and the things you used to do. Emphasize vocabulary words that you have learned this year. Each slide must have at least one picture of you at that particular time. You can also have pictures that represent what you are talking about in the slide. Start scanning your family pictures. If you choose to title each slide, be sure to use Spanish. Everything must be in Spanish. TITLE SLIDE: Write your name and a title for your presentation. You can add pictures or clipart that best represent you and your interests. BABY PICTURE SLIDE: Begin your paragraph with “Nací en _____” telling where you were born. Then write 2 sentences in the imperfect tense describing yourself and telling things that you used to do. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PICTURE SLIDE: Write 3 sentences in the imperfect tense again to describe yourself, your friends or family. For example, tell about sports or special activities you used to participate in. What did you used to watch? What were your favorite toys or games? Tell about your clothes, favorite music, family activities, favorite foods, best friend, pet… JUNIOR HIGH OR HIGH SCHOOL PICTURE SLIDE: Write 3 sentences in the preterit tense...
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...function as an inseparable part in the context of economic development since their close involvement in the processes of manufacture, trading and profit generation. However, it also appears that the term entrepreneurship is not easy to understand although this subject seems similar to the term of entrepreneur. Based on this background, this essay will first fully analyze the principal subject of entrepreneurship reflecting various economists’ perspectives, and secondly illustrate the relationship between entrepreneurship and innovation, before suggesting that in general, entrepreneurship is closely linked with innovation and they are both significant elements in the development of economy. Furthermore, this essay will also illustrate that creativity and problem solving are effective capabilities in entrepreneurial processes of business planning and decision making in the realization of innovation. To understand the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and economic development, it is crucial and necessary to analyze the keywords in this statement. First of all, what is entrepreneurship? In fact, despite the potential that every individual may take a mutual view directly on the term of entrepreneurship, there is no fixed definition of this term. As is noted by Baumol (1968: 64), the concept of entrepreneurship is in fact obscure and it is not often the case that, this term can be defined explicitly in the theoretical scope. Traced back to the early history in economic context...
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...way, which provides “business lessons from the world’s most creative corporate playground”, being Pixar. When asking Ed Catmull, cofounder of Pixar and the president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, in a Harvard Business Review paper about how to foster creativity in his organization, three main points are raised; Culture, leadership and collaboration. In the book under our analysis, the same points are raised. However, the authors believe that the key factor of Pixar’s great creativity is the fact that everyone thinks like a child and acts like a child within the organization. In fact, Pixar will inspire the readers to (Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson, 2010): - Dream like a child. - Believe in your playmates. - Dare to jump in the water and make waves. - Do unleash your childlike potential. The book is then divided into four parts and deal with the four main components that will help readers enhance their creativity: Dream, believe, dare and do. The first part talks about a supportive organization, where leadership plays a great role. Then, collaboration is the company is touched on. After, three aspects of creativity that are risk-taking, play and imagination are dealt with. Finally, the key points to create a “playground” similar to Pixar’s have been introduced. In order to review the book we will analyze the four sections of it, namely Dream, believe, dare, do. In addition, we will relate the book to...
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...One of the main arguments Carolyn Nordstrom makes in her book A Different Kind of War Story is that “The encounter with violence is a profoundly personal event” (4). Secondly, Nordstrom argues that people have a “remarkable creativity that they bring to the fore in surviving violence and rebuilding humane worlds” (Nordstrom 4). She talks about the creativity of those individuals undergoing violence and their ability to build a new world for themselves after everything has been taken from them or destroyed. She makes the argument that creativity is a core survival strategy and a profound form of resistance to political violence and oppression. Nordstrom is careful to point out the relationship between violence and creativity in that violence does not need to be present for creativity to flourish....
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...paper APA style, double spaced, 12 pt font, with a minimum of six (6) pages of research. You will need a cover page, summary page, conclusion page and reference page bringing the total number of pages to 10. All of your references need to be from credible sources. You should be using your text book, websites and articles to support your comprehension and application of your topic. Remember to cite all your sources and use in text sources where applicable. A presentation on your paper, five (5) minutes maximum, on the evening of the due date of the paper is required as well. This presentation should have a minimum of 4 power point slides. Feel free to present your topic in an original, creative format. Be sure to choose a topic that grabs your attention and have fun with it!! Quality | 20 Points – Full Credit | 6-19 Points – Weighted Credit | 0-5 Points –...
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...classic example that proved people could create reality using the power of imagination. I agreed with them. Also, I think imagination and reality are interdependent shaping each other. Yes human once imagined they could fly then invented aircraft. Why they didn’t make a wings or flying broom? Because they are limited to the technology, there is a realistic boundary inside people’s imaginations. As the technology is getting more advanced, the boundary will be reshaped by the infinity of imagination. Of course, if people just have the ideas, no matter how creative it is, they don’t act on them, it is just imagining but not being creative. Imagination “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” - Albert Einstein True. Knowledge is limited and discovered. When a person is telling historical stories or giving opinions with references of facts and information, we say this person is knowledgeable and educated. Einstein was a great scientist and very intelligent. He created many theories, such as the energy formula: E=Mc^2. He had the capacity for logic, abstract thoughts and critical thinking. It is the curiosity and imagination that motivate one to explore the possibility. This “breaking box” capacity is needed for discovering creative solutions and new knowledge. I absolutely agree with Einstein, imagination is more important than knowledge. Can Creativity Be Learned? I see creativity as a way of thinking, and it can be acquired from a supportive...
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...In The Aesthetic Poverty of Evangelicalism, Clyde S. Kilby seeks to persuade his reader that viewing the Bible as simply “abstract doctrine” or “systematic theology” is erroneous, but that these points will come naturally if we first recognize the Bible as a piece of literature. Kilby points out that evangelicals are far too concerned with a plain and direct gospel. In desiring to exclusively communicate the truth and gift of salvation found in the gospel, evangelicals believe it necessary to remove all the literary merit of the Bible. While this is an effective piece that clearly persuades his evangelical audience, Kilby’s execution of ethos is poor. However, he deftly uses the technique of logos and pathos. While ethos strives to convince the reader of the author’s expertise in and knowledge of the subject at hand, Kilby’s use of ethos does not accomplish this. Although it is evident that Kilby has studied the subject matter at hand, the myriad of questions he poses at the beginning of the piece come across as a forced attempt to establish his credibility. They assault the reader before he or she has...
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...Project Name: Course Tutor Date: INTRODUCTION THE AUTODRIVER Creativity research is a large and varied field in which the subject has characteristics on many different levels. The arrival of digital media and computational tools has opened up new possibilities for creative practice (Edmonds et.al. 2005). The Auto driver is a creative project that aims at converting a simple human activity, driving a vehicle into a computer technology aided activity. Sharma (2006) notes that humans are intricately bound up with technology. With that in mind, creativity combined with technology can perform a simple task as driving a vehicle. The Auto driver is a technology project to develop a self-driving vehicle. Using GPS (Global positioning system) and other relatively new driving technologies, and combining them into one functional unit able to drive a car. A GPS system currently in use for driving involves indicating available parking spaces (Hsu 2010). Auto driver will take this idea further and use the GPS system to navigate cars through highways and city streets, without getting lost or losing control. By combining technology that is in place, it is possible to develop this car. By use of low cost sensors, the car will be able to recognize other cars in front and behind it while on the road. Similar technology developed by researchers at Rutgers University is helping in parking cars (Joentz 2010). Overview Edmonds et.al. (2005) Point out that the cutting edge in the digital arts is a highly...
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...Topic: Bodybuilding What does ‘bodybuilding’ mean and why does it become an obsession? Bodybuilding is defined as “the process of developing the musculature of the body through specific types of diet and physical exercise, such as weightlifting, especially for competitive exhibition”. Bodybuilders are people who have dedicated themselves to transforming their bodies into a more muscular and well defined shape. This is done through endless hours at the gym every week, and well thought out, healthy diets that maximize their muscle gains. For someone to be a true bodybuilder, they have to commit themselves to sticking with their workouts and making sure that they are taking all the appropriate steps needed to ensure that their bodies have the ability to optimize its muscle building capabilities. This is done through ensuring that the individual is receiving the proper amount of sleep, eating healthy and not cheating on their diets, not consuming any drugs or alcohol, and by always maintaining a high level of commitment to everything they do. Every single day bodybuilders have a prepared schedule of what foods to eat, what body part they will be working out, and they have to make sure to keep up with this regime every single day to ensure that their body has the proper rest and recovery, and that all body parts are being worked out equally. This shows how intense and demanding it is to be a bodybuilder because they do not take a day off from training, and they have to make sure...
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...| | Points Received: | 3 of 3 | | Comments: | | | | 2. | Question : | (TCO 2) Vince Lombardi had a _____ personality; his followers' goal was to be equal to their understanding of his ____. | | | Student Answer: | | Schizophrenic; needs | | | | Mercurial; orders | | | | Stoic; desires | | | | Charismatic; values and goals | | | | Difficult; deficiencies | | Instructor Explanation: | p. 27 | | | | Points Received: | 3 of 3 | | Comments: | | | | 3. | Question : | (TCO 2) Regarding the importance of enthusiasm for leadership effectiveness, _____ said, "Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed to forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart." | | | Student Answer: | | Martin Luther King | | | | George Patton | | | | Harry Truman | | | | Colin Powell | | | | Eleanor Roosevelt | | Instructor Explanation: | p. 31 | | | | Points Received: | 3 of 3 | | Comments: | | | | 4. | Question : | (TCO 2) ____, ____, and _____ are traits found in charismatic leaders. | | | Student Answer: | | Education, opportunity, and attention to detail | | | | Training, sensitivity, and patience | | | | Experience, collaboration, and emotional stability | | | | Optimism, extroversion, and a sense of adventure | | | | None of the above | | Instructor Explanation: | p. 32 | | | | Points Received:...
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...remember and will be a unique driving experience. The Lotus is innovative because of the lightweight body frame and gives the driver benefits of steering, braking, handling. The lotus is also reduces fuel consumption and emission levels. Lotus Elise The Lotus Elise is designed to be strong with lightweight bonded aluminum chassis with a suspension and midmounted power train is bolted. The Lotus is designed without power steering, but does have ABS powered brakes. The performance of the lotus comes 1.6 that produces a time of 6.7 in zero to 60 seconds and the technology is programmed for the Lotus to reach 60 miles per hour in second gear. The gear shifting is designed to be smooth and satisfying thanks to the lower friction cable and is very accurate to allow fast shifting. Designers of the Lotus created the sports car with style and wanted the Lotus to stand out from other sports cars. The Lotus was introduced in 1994, but did not hit the market until 1996 and named after Elisa the granddaughter of Romano Artilio. The Lotus is the lightest performance car sold in the United States. The Creativity of the lotus was built to show immediate results resulting in light weight, aerodynamic, and special car for the money. Luxury Goods Luxury goods are products not considered essential and come in many of forms such as furniture, automobiles, home features, jewelry, and other designs customers want but not necessarily an essential need. Luxury goods are in high...
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...harnessing people power for the attainment of a desired goal and thus the concept of leadership cannot be restricted to the Organizational context. It pervades through all realms of society, whether it be in politics, religion or the corporate world. I am conducting a case study on the Values of Servant Leadership globally, corporate, and community. I will be taking into consideration the state of global affairs, the state of U.S. corporate affairs, small businesses, and the society around us, what is true value of servant leadership, both to corporate world and to the community at large? Global Affairs Management is no longer constrained by national borders. There is significant importance from globalization, and the world has definitely become the global village. Managers in organization of all sizes and types around the world have to confront the challenges of operating in the global market. Managers face challenges due to an array of environmental factor while doing business. He must effectively plan, organize, lead, control and manage cultural difference to be globally successfully. Creativity is the first step on the road to innovation, and has become vital for an organization to survive given the complexity of global change. Creativity is the ability to produce new ideas through imagination and unconventional approaches to problems. Creativity occurs in an environment where people have freedom to think and interact with new stimuli. A culture of creativity and innovation...
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