Proceedings of the National Conference On Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2013 University of Wisconsin La Crosse, WI April 11 – 13, 2013 Evaluating The Alternative Uses Test of Creativity Caitlin Dippo College of Design University of Minnesota Twin Cities 100 Church St. SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 Faculty Advisor Barry Kudrowitz Abstract The Alternative Uses Test is a means of evaluating divergent thinking abilities. The test requires subjects to list nonobvious uses for a common object
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CHAPTER 2 RECOGNIZING OPPORTUNITIES AND GENERATING IDEAS LEARNING OBJECTIVES |1. |Explain why it’s important to start a new firm when its “window of opportunity” is open. | |2. |Explain the difference between an opportunity and an idea. | |3. |Describe the three general approaches entrepreneurs use to identify opportunities. | |4.
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plant. And this is what takes me to one of the times I experienced effective communication in the work environment. Assignment 1: Innovation from Google’s Free Food Strategy Due Week 4 and worth 300 points Google is widely known for its workplace creativity and innovation within the technology field. Its search engine is the most extensively used search tool in the world, its data analytics are revolutionary, and it continues to raise the bar for innovation and design with Google Glass, smart watches
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Failure is interesting,” Dyson tells entrepreneur.com. “It’s part of making progress. You never learn from success, but you do learn from failure. I started out with a simple idea, and by the end it got much more audacious and interesting. I got to a place I never could have imagined because I learned what worked and didn’t work. We have to embrace failure and almost get a kick out of it. Not in a perverse way, but in a problem-solving way.” Design graduate Dyson’s ultimately-successful problem-solving
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Many of the comments are left by engineers and product development specialists, and reading through them on a weekly basis can be both informative and insightful. An example of a Quirky-initiated product that was available for presale at the time this feature was written follows. On January 25, 2011, the product had presold 226 units of the 980 units needed to go into production. According to the Quirky Web site, 401 people helped influence the design of the product. Real Opportunity or Quirky Idea
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original, but this isn’t entirely true. Innovation is the creation and application of something in a way that has not be done before. It has more to do with execution than it has to do with plain thought or conception. It is practical yet employs creativity. For example, everyone praised Apple’s innovation in the conception of the iPhone and the way it changed mobile computing and telecommunication forever. However it is also well known that Apple invented very little in its design. They took existing
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the world around me for more information. This would have helped me cleared my idea of what I really want to express and compose during my experience. If there’s one thing I have learned is to be individual inventiveness, have self-expression, and creativity are qualities I have valued most. We have many great ideas that come up on our own, we don’t have the need to copy! We dream, work, play, go to school where we can look for our images, not to our neighbor’s paper, or to copy a picture in a book
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(Kendra Cherry, “Parenting Styles”) By definition, I would consider myself an authoritative parent. I give my children age-appropriate rules and chores and corrective punishment when they break their rules. I will be focusing on the children’s creativity and which parenting style suppresses it. My hypothesis is that if a parent uses an authoritative style, then the child will become more creative. My method would be to observe families with school-aged children. After I am able to determine the
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deoIDEO PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT 1. Yes. IDEO should accept the Visor project, but they could persuade Handspring’s management to change its launch timings to produce a better result. 2. IDEO is a firm that specializes in product design and innovations; it also provides services in packaging design, product research, executive training and education on innovation, and strategic consulting services .It is set up as a collection of studios (14 as of circa 2004) of about 10-20 people each. Each
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What is open innovation? What advantages does it bring? How does it contrast with the “closed” innovation model? In open innovation, the company does not depend on its internal research alone, it commercializes innovation from other firms as well. There is no boundary within which the company works, the workforce is highly mobile and every idea is welcome. Also the market segments are also not isolated, if an innovation caters to the needs of a different segment, the company might still go ahead
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